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+"""
+The HourlyEnergySql ORM object should be made via associated pydantic
+class HourlyEnergyGt, which includes class validators, using the as_sql method
+e.g. ch = HourlyEnergyGt(...).as_sql()
+"""
+
+from gjk.models.message import Base
+from sqlalchemy import Column, BigInteger, Integer, String
+from sqlalchemy import UniqueConstraint
+from sqlalchemy import tuple_
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+from sqlalchemy.exc import NoSuchTableError
+from sqlalchemy.exc import OperationalError
+from sqlalchemy.exc import SQLAlchemyError
+from typing import List, Dict
+import pendulum
+
+
+class HourlyEnergySql(Base):
+    """
+    Energy consumption of a device specified in channel_name 
+    over the hour starting at hour_start_s
+    """
+    __tablename__ = 'hourly_device_energy'
+
+    id = Column(String, primary_key=True)
+    hour_start_s = Column(BigInteger)
+    channel_name = Column(String)
+    watt_hours = Column(Integer)
+    g_node_alias = Column(String)
+
+    # Rows must have a unique combination of start time, channel name, and GNode alias
+    __table_args__ = (
+        UniqueConstraint('hour_start_s', 'channel_name', 'g_node_alias', name='unique_time_channel_gnode'),
+    )
+
+
+def bulk_insert_hourly_energy(session: Session, hourly_energy_list: List[HourlyEnergySql]):
+    """
+    Idempotently bulk inserts HourlyEnergySql into the journaldb hourly_device_energy table,
+    inserting only those whose primary keys do not already exist AND that don't violate the 
+    hour_start_s, channel_name, g_node_alias uniqueness constraint.
+
+    Args:
+        session (Session): An active SQLAlchemy session used for database operations.
+        hourly_energy_list (List[HourlyEnergySql]): A list of HourlyEnergySql objects to be 
+        conditionally inserted into the hourly_device_energy table of the journaldb database
+
+    Returns:
+        None
+    """
+    if not all(isinstance(obj, HourlyEnergySql) for obj in hourly_energy_list):
+        raise ValueError("All objects in hourly_energy_list must be HourlyEnergySql objects")
+
+    batch_size = 1000
+
+    for i in range(0, len(hourly_energy_list), batch_size):
+        try:
+            batch = hourly_energy_list[i:i+batch_size]
+            pk_column = HourlyEnergySql.id
+            unique_columns = [
+                HourlyEnergySql.hour_start_s,
+                HourlyEnergySql.channel_name,
+                HourlyEnergySql.g_node_alias,
+            ]
+
+            pk_set = set()
+            unique_set = set()
+
+            for hourly_energy in batch:
+                pk_set.add(getattr(hourly_energy, "id"))
+                unique_set.add(tuple(getattr(hourly_energy, col.name) for col in unique_columns))
+
+            existing_pks = set(session.query(pk_column).filter(pk_column.in_(pk_set)).all())
+
+            existing_uniques = set(
+                session.query(*unique_columns)
+                .filter(tuple_(*unique_columns).in_(unique_set))
+                .all()
+            )
+
+            new_hourly_energy = [
+                hourly_energy
+                for hourly_energy in batch
+                if getattr(hourly_energy, "id") not in existing_pks
+                and tuple(getattr(hourly_energy, col.name) for col in unique_columns)
+                not in existing_uniques
+            ]
+            print(f"[{pendulum.from_timestamp(batch[0].hour_start_s)}] Inserting {len(new_hourly_energy)} out of {len(batch)}")
+            
+            session.bulk_save_objects(new_hourly_energy)
+            session.commit()
+
+        except NoSuchTableError as e:
+            print(f"Error: The table does not exist. {e}")
+            session.rollback()
+        except OperationalError as e:
+            print(f"Operational Error! {e}")
+            session.rollback()
+        except SQLAlchemyError as e:
+            print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
+            session.rollback()