When playing with the full Pyanodon suite including Alternative Energy, utilization monitor doesn't want to track steam engines attached to oil boilers or regenerative heat exchangers. They work fine if attached to regular boilers. Without Alternative Energy, steam engines happily reported their usage, although using regenerative heat exchangers did not exist.
Summary: Steam engine reports utilization only if connected to regular (vanilla-like) boilers. The expected result is the steam engines report their usage regardless of them being connected to an oil burner, regular burner, or a regenerative heat exchanger.
Info: Yes, I have the box "Only check the "player force"" unchecked.
