diff --git a/goodwe_controller/app/haentities.py b/goodwe_controller/app/haentities.py
index d6f0784..695ef6f 100644
--- a/goodwe_controller/app/haentities.py
+++ b/goodwe_controller/app/haentities.py
@@ -51,13 +51,17 @@ class EntityCache:
         self.clock = clock
         self.rows: dict | None = None
         self.read_at: float | None = None
+        self.tried_at: float | None = None
         self._lock = asyncio.Lock()
 
     async def get(self) -> tuple[dict | None, float | None]:
         """(rows by entity id, age in s), or (None, None) if never read."""
         async with self._lock:      # one HA read however many pickers ask
             now = self.clock()
-            if self.read_at is None or now - self.read_at >= CACHE_S:
+            # A failed read also waits CACHE_S, so polls while HA is down do
+            # not queue one 10 s read each behind this lock.
+            if self.tried_at is None or now - self.tried_at >= CACHE_S:
+                self.tried_at = now
                 states = await self.hass.states()
                 if states is not None:
                     rows = (row(s) for s in states)
diff --git a/goodwe_controller/app/ui_text/en.json b/goodwe_controller/app/ui_text/en.json
index d3244fb..dd39981 100644
--- a/goodwe_controller/app/ui_text/en.json
+++ b/goodwe_controller/app/ui_text/en.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   "fields": {
     "solar": {"name": "Solar inverters", "description": "Each solar inverter's power sensor, which the add-on records but does not use for control."},
     "contract": {"name": "Your contract", "description": "How your supplier prices each kWh you take from the grid."},
-    "region": {"name": "Region", "description": "Fills in the grid costs, levies and VAT for the year shown, so check them on your bill."},
+    "region": {"name": "Region", "description": "Fills in grid costs, levies and VAT for the year shown, but not yet for Wallonia or Brussels, so check your bill."},
     "fallback": {"name": "Price when the feed is down", "description": "Used when the price source does not answer."},
     "fixed_price": {"name": "Price per kWh, all in", "description": "Energy, supplier costs, grid costs, levies and VAT together."},
     "day_price": {"name": "Day price, weekdays 07:00 to 22:00", "description": "All in, as on your bill."},
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   "choices": {
     "contract": {"none": "No prices", "fixed": "Fixed price", "daynight": "Day and night", "dynamic": "Dynamic, hourly", "custom": "Other time windows"},
     "fallback": {"none": "None", "fixed": "One price", "daynight": "Day and night", "custom": "Other time windows"},
-    "region": {"flanders": "Flanders", "own": "I enter my own figure"}
+    "region": {"flanders": "Flanders, Fluvius Antwerpen", "own": "I enter my own figure"}
   },
   "applies": {
     "restart": {"name": "Applies after a restart"},
diff --git a/goodwe_controller/app/uimodel.py b/goodwe_controller/app/uimodel.py
index f5f9c5a..fddf36e 100644
--- a/goodwe_controller/app/uimodel.py
+++ b/goodwe_controller/app/uimodel.py
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ class DeriveError(ValueError):
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
 # Region presets for "Grid costs, levies and VAT". Year-stamped, updated each
 # January (owner, 2026-09-27). Only presets with a sourced figure are listed:
-# Flanders is app/price.py's Fluvius Antwerpen sum (TARIFF-18). Wallonia and
+# Flanders is app/price.py's Fluvius Antwerpen sum (TARIFF-18: Eneco
+# residential card, Flanders, September 2026, VAT included). Wallonia and
 # Brussels have a day and a night band (config.yaml) and join with sourced
 # figures; until then those sites choose "own".
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
@@ -93,9 +94,10 @@ def _roster_encode(m, keep):
         return out
     out["inverters"] = [{k: v for k, v in c.items() if v is not None}
                         for c in cards]
+    # The flat keys beside a list are not read: they stay as stored.
+    out.update({k: copy.deepcopy(keep[k]) for k in _ROSTER_FLAT if k in keep})
     if shape == "flat":
         # CFG-04 rule 9e: a flat power request entity beside a list is refused.
-        # The other flat keys stay as stored and are not read.
         out["setpoint_entity"] = ""
     return out
 
@@ -252,7 +254,10 @@ def _region_decode(o):
 def _region_encode(m, keep):
     region = m.get("ui.region")
     if region == OWN:
-        return {"price_taxes_eur_kwh": m.get("price_taxes_eur_kwh")}
+        out = {"price_taxes_eur_kwh": m.get("price_taxes_eur_kwh")}
+        if "price_taxes_profile" in keep:       # "own" keeps the stored table
+            out["price_taxes_profile"] = keep["price_taxes_profile"]
+        return out
     if region not in REGION_PRESETS:
         raise DeriveError(f"unknown region {region!r}")
     p = REGION_PRESETS[region]
diff --git a/goodwe_controller/test_haentities.py b/goodwe_controller/test_haentities.py
index a562b97..30ffb81 100644
--- a/goodwe_controller/test_haentities.py
+++ b/goodwe_controller/test_haentities.py
@@ -161,6 +161,24 @@ check("Home Assistant down after a good read: the old list, marked old",
       and len(_down["entities"]) == 4 and _down["age_s"] >= 30)
 check("...and peek() then gives nothing, so no warning rests on an old list",
       _cache.peek() is None)
+
+
+async def down_windows():
+    """One loop throughout: a contended asyncio.Lock binds to its loop."""
+    hass, clock = FakeHass(), Clock()
+    hass.answer = None
+    cache = E.EntityCache(hass, clock=clock)
+    counts = []
+    for step in (0, 1, 30):
+        clock.t += step
+        await asyncio.gather(*(cache.payload() for _ in range(5)))
+        counts.append(hass.reads)
+    return counts
+
+
+check("five polls while Home Assistant is down cost one read, the polls just "
+      "after wait for the next window, and that window tries once",
+      asyncio.run(down_windows()) == [1, 1, 2])
 _h2 = FakeHass()
 _h2.answer = None
 _empty = asyncio.run(E.EntityCache(_h2).payload("power"))
diff --git a/goodwe_controller/test_uimodel.py b/goodwe_controller/test_uimodel.py
index 1267d62..62702d0 100644
--- a/goodwe_controller/test_uimodel.py
+++ b/goodwe_controller/test_uimodel.py
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ _listed = dict(SITE, setpoint_entity="", inverters=[
 _l1 = edit(_listed, inverters=[dict(_listed["inverters"][0], max_w=1800)])
 check("a list of one stays a list, so the inverter keeps its name and stored "
       "state", _l1["inverters"] == [dict(_listed["inverters"][0], max_w=1800)])
+check("editing a listed inverter keeps the unread flat keys as stored",
+      all(_l1[k] == _listed[k] for k in ("setpoint_entity", "soc_entity",
+                                          "batt_entity", "max_w")))
 check("a name on the flat inverter is refused rather than dropped",
       raises(lambda: edit(SITE, inverters=[dict(_card, name="garage")])))
 _raw = dict(SITE, inverters="garage")
@@ -137,6 +140,10 @@ check("a roster no card can show is kept when another field is saved, and "
       and raises(lambda: edit(_raw, inverters=[_card])))
 
 print("\n3. solar rows")
+check("a stored flip reads as a reversed row",
+      U.options_to_ui(dict(DEFAULTS, pv_entity="sensor.pv",
+                           pv_invert_entities=["sensor.pv"]))["ui.solar"]
+      == [{"entity": "sensor.pv", "reversed": True}])
 check("one row writes pv_entity",
       edit(DEFAULTS, ui__solar=[{"entity": "sensor.pv", "reversed": False}])
       ["pv_entity"] == "sensor.pv")
@@ -195,6 +202,11 @@ _own = dict(DEFAULTS, price_taxes_eur_kwh=0.06)
 check("a figure that is no preset reads as 'own', and choosing Flanders "
       "writes the preset", U.options_to_ui(_own)["ui.region"] == U.OWN
       and edit(_own, ui__region="flanders")["price_taxes_eur_kwh"] == 0.11736)
+_prof = dict(DEFAULTS, price_taxes_eur_kwh=0.12,
+             price_taxes_profile='{"day": 0.14, "night": 0.1}')
+check("'own' keeps a stored levies table when the figure is edited",
+      edit(_prof, price_taxes_eur_kwh=0.13)["price_taxes_profile"]
+      == _prof["price_taxes_profile"])
 check("'own' stores the typed figure",
       edit(DEFAULTS, ui__region=U.OWN, price_taxes_eur_kwh=0.13)
       ["price_taxes_eur_kwh"] == 0.13)