About rate structures

Tariffs provides a mechanism to calculate energy use at different times of the day according to different rate structures to figure out how much your Energy use costs. Tariffs and rate structures are designed to be used with Production under a Production reporting point.

There is a Rate Management folder under the System Configuration folder that contains rate structures and tariffs.

• The Tariff item represents a tariff period that is later referenced by a rate structure.

• The Rate Structure item combines one or more tariffs into a structure to determine what the rate of energy is at a particular point in time.

Types of rate structures

Step rate structure

A Step rate structure describes a structure where rate brackets apply to an entire time period that depend on amount of usage within that time period.

Time of Use rate structure

A Time of Use rate structure describes a structure where rate brackets apply, depending on time of usage within the time period, not on amount used.

Time of Use and Step rate structure

A Time of Use and Step rate structure describes a structure where rate brackets apply to the time period that depend on both amount of usage and time of usage.

Related topics

• Add and configure a Production reporting point

• About Production

• Add a tariff

• Add and configure rate structure