Rockwell Automation 9307 FactoryTalk EnergyMetrix - Manual (Page 112)

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Set up a Billing Rate Schedule
Rate schedules define the content and format of billing reports. You may use billing
reports for the following:
 Shadow billing - replicating the monthly bill from your energy provider
 Cost allocation - reporting the real cost of energy for each process or cost center in
your enterprise
 Tenant billing - generating energy bills for use of your manufacturing or commercial
facilities by others
 What-if analysis - Comparing costs of energy from different energy providers for the
same usage
Rate schedules may have global scope or be assigned to a domain. Global rate schedules
may be used in all domains. Domain rate schedules apply to only a single domain.
The rate schedule model is designed to be very flexible so you may accommodate a wide
variety of utility tariffs.
Rate Schedule Elements
A rate schedules comprises a set of rules and formulas that transform energy usage data
into cost allocation or billing data. You can configure rate schedules to replicate your
utility tariff for shadow billing or comparative billing analysis, or develop and implement
your own billing rates for internal energy cost recovery from production operations or
facility tenants. Rate schedules include the following elements:
 General Information - identity of the rate schedule owner, the rate schedules scope
(global or local to a domain) and effective dates.
 Runtime parameters - allow you to manually define and enter report parameters that
are not automatically logged into the database.
 Seasons - support utility tariffs that charge different amounts for items such as energy
or demand depending on the season of the year.
 Day types - days can be classified as working, non-working, holiday, and as a day of
the week (Sunday through Saturday). Each day type can be used in line item
calculations.
 Times of Use - a simple menu allows you to configure time-of-use billing periods
down to the minute.
 Line items - flexible Visual Basic .NET scripting combined with specialized functions
easily support a variety of utility tariff charges, such as facility, meter or service
charges, energy and demand time-of-use charges, ‘ratchet’ demand penalties,
transitional competitive charges, sales and use taxes, and many others.
 Global variables - allow line items to interact by sharing data.