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Most stuff requires power. Some more than others. It would be nice to be able to measure how much a group of entities requires.

Trying to do this would require separating the equipment to a separate power grid, which is certainly doable. The issue then becomes supplying that grid separately. There are only cheaty ways to do so easily.

Basically what I am looking for is something similar to the power switch, but instead of breaking the connection on command, it measures the power consumption. Both right now and over time.

I made a mod which kinda does that:
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Yoyobuae ... ransformer

Open it's UI and set a signal type and it will output that signal with the power transferred across it as it's count. For example, set it to signal P and it would output P=1.8M (1.8 MW). It shows the current power averaged over more or less 1 second.