Remove Flick Electric integration

[ZephireNZ]

Breaking change

The flick_electric integration has been removed. All customers of the Flick Electric company have already been moved to Meridian Energy. The API endpoint used in the integration is already non functional.

Proposed change

Removes the flick_electric integration from Home Assistant.

All customers have been moved to Meridian Energy, to my knowledge there is not an official HA integration which these users could use instead.

The integration will be non-functional, as the API endpoint https://api.flick.energy now returns NXDOMAIN.

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• Link to documentation pull request: Remove Flick Electric integration home-assistant.io#41528
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[ZephireNZ]

Not sure if this was actually needed to be removed - looks like it's just snapshot of analytics data where the integration so maybe not?

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR removes the Flick Electric integration from Home Assistant. According to the PR description, all Flick Electric customers have been migrated to Meridian Energy, and the API endpoint https://api.flick.energy now returns NXDOMAIN, making the integration non-functional.

• Complete removal of the flick_electric integration source code and supporting files
• Removal of all tests, fixtures, and test configuration
• Cleanup of generated files and metadata references

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 19 out of 21 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

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File	Description
homeassistant/components/flick_electric/*	Removed all integration source files (manifest, sensor, config flow, coordinator, constants, strings)
tests/components/flick_electric/*	Removed all test files, fixtures, and test configuration
homeassistant/generated/config_flows.py	Removed flick_electric from config flows registry
homeassistant/generated/integrations.json	Removed integration metadata entry
requirements_all.txt	Removed PyFlick==1.1.3 dependency
requirements_test_all.txt	Removed PyFlick==1.1.3 test dependency
script/hassfest/quality_scale.py	Removed flick_electric from quality scale exemption lists
tests/components/analytics_insights/fixtures/current_data.json	Removed analytics entry for the integration
CODEOWNERS	Removed @ZephireNZ ownership entries

[MartinHjelmare]

For context, I found this RNZ article about the sale of Flick Electric to Meridian:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/560899/what-went-wrong-for-flick

[MartinHjelmare]

Thanks!