TARIFF-17: a price component that varies by hour has somewhere to live
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`price.py` modelled the whole non-energy part of a Belgian bill as ONE flat
scalar. This adds `price_taxes_profile`, which carries the TAXES component as
a period table, and makes `assemble()` evaluate it at each point's own instant.

⚠️ THE FLAT SCALAR WAS NOT A WRONG NUMBER, AND THIS IS NOT A CORRECTION OF ONE.
The optimiser reads exactly two quantities off a series - the spread
`max - min` over the firm points, and which hour is cheapest - and an additive
constant identical in every hour cancels out of the first and leaves the second
where it was. It is provably inert. Measured, and printed by test_price.py 16b
on every run: with a flat taxes figure of 0.00, 0.0739, 0.1198, 0.1327 or 1.00
EUR/kWh the same 24-hour feed is cheapest at 13:00 in all five cases and its
spread is 0.1500 EUR/kWh in all five cases. What was missing is anywhere for an
HOUR-VARYING non-energy component to live. This is a missing capability, not a
bad constant.

Belgium has one. Fluvius distribution is a single rate - its tariff-card row
reads `Normaal | Uitsl. nacht`, where exclusive night is a separate physical
circuit and not a night register - so nothing changes for the reference site in
Flanders. The Walloon DSOs and Sibelga are on the same card with four columns,
`Enkelvoudig | Dag | Nacht | Uitsl. nacht`, and the gap is real money (c/kWh):
ORES 13,27 / 7,39; AIESH 15,17 / 8,21; Tecteo RESA 12,20 / 7,01; Sibelga
9,39 / 7,10; ORES IMPACT 2026 16,578 / 5,090.

⚠️ AND THE BANDS ARE ANTI-CORRELATED WITH WHAT THE BATTERY WANTS TO DO. The
cheap network hours are the cheap spot hours, so flattening them does not shift
the curve - it UNDERSTATES the spread and declines cycles that would have paid.
Same feed, same markup, the only difference being the taxes argument:

    flat 0.0000 / 0.0739 / 0.1198 / 0.1327 / 1.0000
                                       -> cheapest hour 13, spread 0.1500
    ORES dag 0.1327 / nacht 0.0739     -> cheapest hour 03, spread 0.1788

The regression check grades WHICH HOUR IS CHEAPEST, not the spread: an
implementation that reads the table once and adds one number to every point is
the LEVEL bucket wearing a period table - right magnitude, wrong shape - and a
spread assertion passes on it. Measured: hoisting the lookup out of
`assemble()`'s loop (+17 B) is red on six named checks in test_price.py and
GREEN in the other 28 files.

ONE GRAMMAR, NOT TWO. `static_tariff.py` already shipped the periods, the day
selectors, the tiling rule and the DST handling, so `parse_taxes_profile()` is
the same parser with the option name and the "what this number means" clause as
arguments. A second tiling rule would be a second set of 23- and 25-hour-day
bugs. test_static_tariff.py section 10 pins that two ways: by parsing every
module under `app/` and asserting the grammar is defined in exactly one of
them, and by deriving each of thirteen refusal sentences for the new option
from the old option's own sentence rather than transcribing them.

`Component.TAXES` semantics, `code_leaks()` and the double-counting guarantee
are untouched. The new key joins FRAMEWORK_KEYS, BANNED_IN_PLUGIN_CODE is
derived from that set, and a plugin that names it is refused at `register()`.
It reaches both plugins that take taxes - `custom_formula` ({ENERGY, MARKUP})
and `generic_dayahead` ({ENERGY}) - and not `manual_csv`, which is all-in: the
table is routed through `capabilities().adds`, exactly as the scalar is.

⚠️ A MALFORMED TABLE IS REFUSED AT STARTUP, NOT AT THE NEXT FETCH. It is read
on the ~30 s planning path, and a table that first fails at 03:00 is a site
that stops pricing at 03:00, which §11.4 turns into a quiet fallback
indistinguishable from a healthy fixed-tariff day. validate.py refuses three
things: a table that does not tile the day; a table set beside a NON-DEFAULT
`price_taxes_eur_kwh`, because the table wins and the scalar would then be a
number the operator typed that decides nothing; and a whole card typed in
CENTS, which is how these figures are printed. That last rung is not a
restatement of the parser's +-10 EUR/kWh bound - ORES's 13,27 trips the parser,
but Sibelga's entire card, 9,39 and 7,10, is under it and would otherwise have
started as a 9.39 EUR/kWh levy. Both rungs are graded by the REASON each gives,
and mutating them together (TEST-16) moves three rows.

NOTHING CHANGES FOR A SITE THAT DOES NOT SET IT. The option ships "", and the
scalar path is unchanged arithmetically rather than merely in intent:
test_price.py 16f reproduces the pre-TARIFF-17 expression and compares 12
capability/scalar combinations point for point with `==`.

13 mutations, every one red on a named check, ledger in test_price.py below
section 16k with byte deltas and the one equivalent mutant named. 29/29 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU
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@@ -331,7 +331,9 @@ from .maintenance import MAINT_OPTION_DEFAULTS
from .p1 import is_enabled, validate_meter_options
from .peakguard import PEAK_OPTION_DEFAULTS
from .price import PRICE_OPTION_DEFAULTS, PROVIDERS, RETIRED_PROVIDERS
from .static_tariff import ProfileInvalid, parse_static_profile
from .static_tariff import (
ProfileInvalid, TAXES_PROFILE_OPTION, parse_static_profile,
parse_taxes_profile)
from .watchdog import SIGN_OPTION_DEFAULTS
_LOG = logging.getLogger("goodwe.config")
@@ -1420,6 +1422,79 @@ def _price_problems(opts: dict) -> list[str]:
"for this product. Peak shaving, reserve management and the "
"maintenance cycle are unaffected.", profile.prices[0])
# ⚠️ TARIFF-17: THE TAXES PERIOD TABLE, PARSED AT STARTUP RATHER THAN AT
# 03:00, FOR `static_profile`'s REASON ONE OPTION OVER. This table is read
# by `price.assemble()` on the ~30 s planning path; a table that only fails
# when a fetch happens is a site that stops pricing mid-afternoon, and
# §11.4 turns that into a quiet fallback that looks exactly like a healthy
# fixed-tariff day. So the parse happens here, once, where a refusal is a
# banner naming the key.
raw_taxes_profile = opts.get(TAXES_PROFILE_OPTION, "")
taxes_table = None
if str(raw_taxes_profile or "").strip() \
or isinstance(raw_taxes_profile, (list, dict)):
try:
taxes_table = parse_taxes_profile(raw_taxes_profile)
except ProfileInvalid as e:
problems.append(f"{TAXES_PROFILE_OPTION} cannot be used: {e}")
if taxes_table is not None:
# ⚠️ TWO WRITERS OF ONE QUANTITY, ONE OF WHICH SILENTLY LOSES - the
# exact case (a) this module exists for, and the same refusal shape as
# the price-entity/static_profile pair above. The table decides when it
# is set, so a non-default scalar left beside it is a number the
# operator typed that changes nothing, on the quantity §11.4 makes
# hardest to notice. It is compared against the SHIPPED DEFAULT rather
# than against presence, because the Supervisor writes every schema key
# into the options file whether the operator touched it or not.
scalar = _number(opts, "price_taxes_eur_kwh",
PRICE_OPTION_DEFAULTS["price_taxes_eur_kwh"])
shipped = PRICE_OPTION_DEFAULTS["price_taxes_eur_kwh"]
if scalar is not None and abs(scalar - shipped) > 1e-12:
problems.append(
f"{TAXES_PROFILE_OPTION} is set AND price_taxes_eur_kwh is "
f"{scalar} rather than its shipped {shipped}. THE TABLE WINS: "
f"the add-on reads the per-period figures and never looks at "
f"the scalar, so the number you typed there would decide "
f"nothing and nothing would say so. Set price_taxes_eur_kwh "
f"back to {shipped}, or clear {TAXES_PROFILE_OPTION} to keep "
f"the flat figure.")
# ⚠️ THE UNITS RUNG, AND IT IS A SECOND QUANTITY RATHER THAN A
# RESTATEMENT. Every Belgian DSO prints these bands in c EUR/kWh
# (ORES `13,27`), and the whole table is copied off one card - so the
# factor-100 error arrives on EVERY row at once and nothing internal to
# the table disagrees with itself. The parser's own +-10 EUR/kWh bound
# catches a 13,27 typed raw, but NOT ORES IMPACT's night band of 5,090,
# which would be a 5.09 EUR/kWh levy sailing through. Belgian
# non-energy components run roughly 0.05-0.25 EUR/kWh, so anything at
# or above 1.0 is the wrong unit and not a tariff.
steep = sorted({p.eur_per_kwh for p in taxes_table.periods
if abs(p.eur_per_kwh) >= 1.0})
if steep:
problems.append(
f"{TAXES_PROFILE_OPTION} carries {steep} EUR/kWh. Belgian "
f"levies and distribution run about 0.05-0.25 EUR/kWh, so "
f"these are almost certainly the CENT figures off the tariff "
f"card (ORES prints `13,27`, which is 0.1327 EUR/kWh) typed "
f"without the conversion - a factor of 100 that would make "
f"every hour look like an emergency. Divide by 100, or clear "
f"the option.")
negative = sorted({p.eur_per_kwh for p in taxes_table.periods
if p.eur_per_kwh < 0})
if negative:
# ⚠️ A WARNING, NOT A REFUSAL. A negative non-energy component is
# implausible rather than impossible - a prosumer rebate is
# expressible this way - and refusing a site over it would be this
# module asserting a fact about Belgian tariff design it cannot
# observe. §14's warning box governs CONTRADICTIONS, and this is
# not one.
_LOG.warning(
"%s carries negative levies %s EUR/kWh. That is accepted, but "
"a tax component below zero is usually a sign error: the "
"add-on will SUBTRACT it from the published price in those "
"hours.", TAXES_PROFILE_OPTION, negative)
# ⚠️ TARIFF-15: THE FORMULA, GRADED AGAINST THE OPERATOR'S OWN CARD, AT
# STARTUP RATHER THAN AT 03:00.
#