Pricing scheme form
The CASSANDRA platform at the moment support five pricing schemes.
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Name: the name of the scheme -
Type: Scalar Energy Pricing -
Description: a short description of the scheme -
Billing Cycle: in days -
Fixed Charge: fixed charge for every billing cycle -
Levels: pairs of price and energy levels
For example:
- Billing cycle: 4 months
- Measured consumption: 1500 kWh
- Fixed charge: 15
- Price Level 1: [500 Kwh,0.06]
- Price Level 2: [400 Kwh,0.07]
- Price Level 3: [400 Kwh,0.08]
- Price Level 4: [0.1]
Cost = 0.06 * 500 + 0.07 * 400 + 0.08 * 400 + 0.01 * 200 + 15 = 125
You should always include a pricing level with 0 Kwh as a final level (check the Figure above) in order to calculate the remainder energy if energy consumption is greater than the sum of all levels.
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Name: the name of the scheme -
Type: Scalar Energy Pricing -
Description: a short description of the scheme -
Billing Cycle: in days -
Fixed Charge: fixed charge for every billing cycle -
Offpeak Price: The price during offpeak hours -
Levels: pairs of price and energy levels -
Offpeak: define the offpeak hours of pricing
For example:
- Billing cycle: 4 months
- Measured consumption: 1000 kWh in peak and 500 Kwh in off-peak
- Fixed charge: 15
- Price Level 1: [500 Kwh,0.06]
- Price Level 2: [400 Kwh,0.07]
- Price Level 3: [400 Kwh,0.08]
- Price Level 4: [0.1]
- Offpeak price: [0.05]
Cost = 0.06 * 500 + 0.07 * 400 + 0.08 * 100 + 0.05 * 500 + 15 = 105
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Name: the name of the scheme -
Type: Scalar Energy Pricing -
Description: a short description of the scheme -
Billing Cycle: in days -
Fixed Charge: fixed charge for every billing cycle -
Contracted Capacity: The contracted power capacity -
Energy Price: The price of energy consumed -
Power Price: The power pricing of the contracted capacity
For example:
- Billing cycle: 1 month
- Measured consumption: 350 kWh with contracted capacity of 10kW
- Fixed charge: 2
- Energy price: 0.08
- Power price: 2.5
Cost = 0.08 * 350 + 2.5 * 10 + 2 = 55
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Name: the name of the scheme -
Type: Scalar Energy Pricing -
Description: a short description of the scheme -
Billing Cycle: in days -
Fixed Charge: fixed charge for every billing cycle -
Contracted Energy: The contracted energy -
Fixed cost: The price of energy contracted -
Additional cost: The price of additional energy
For example:
- Billing cycle: 1 month
- Fixed charge: 0
- Measured consumption: 300 kWh
- Fixed cost fo contracted kWh consumption: 20
- Energy price for additional consumption above the contracted: 0.25
- Contracted consumption: 200
Cost = 20 + 0.25 * 100 + 0 = 45
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Name: the name of the scheme -
Type: Scalar Energy Pricing -
Description: a short description of the scheme -
Billing Cycle: in days -
Fixed Charge: fixed charge for every billing cycle -
Timezones: price of energy in specific timezones
In order to set the timezones right, you should end one time zone with an hour (for example 18:00) and start the other timezone with the ending time (18:00 in the example). So a valid scheme would be:
- 00:00 - 17:00
- 17:00 - 23:00
- 23:00 - 00:00
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