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About the Rate Comparison Report
This report lets you make predictions about what your costs would be if you were to change your energy rate plan. This helps you decide whether or not you could save money simply be changing energy providers or tariff rates. The Rate Comparison report allows you to select a meter with attached rates (or aggregate meters by holding down the CTRL key and selecting multiple meters), and then apply an alternate rate to see what the calculated costs would have been if you had used the alternate rate instead of the one attached to the meter(s).
Aggregating meters
To aggregate meters in this report, select multiple meters by holding down the CTRL key. Click on the desired meters to select them. Alternatively, select an entire site to aggregate all meters for that site. Once the left side of the report window is defined (with default rates assigned using Attach A Rate) select a single alternate rate to apply to the aggregate.
Note: This method of aggregating meters is used in the What-If Analyzer, Rate Comparison report, and the Budget report. In all other reports, aggregation is performed with a Copy and Paste function, as described in "About Aggregating Data Points".
Aggregation Approach
You have the ability to select how aggregation works when you run the Rate Comparison report. The “Approach to Aggregation” option list, shown in Figure 4-36, is located in the bottom right corner of the report display and provides the following two options:
Figure 4-36 Aggregation Approach Options.
- Coincident Peak Demand
This is the default option. When the report is run using this option, the selected meters are aggregated (demand data points are coincided by each timestamp) and then the alternate rate is applied to the aggregated data (fixed fees are consolidated).
- Calculated Billing Demands
This option does the opposite of the Coincident Peak Demand method. It specifies that the alternate rate is applied to each meter first (revealing multiple demand charges to be summed) and then the total costs are aggregated (fixed fees are summed).
Synchronizing billing cycles
When you select a single meter or aggregate meters, the individual billing cycles for each meter are displayed in the bottom left corner of the display. You can apply any one of the Billing Periods to the alternate rate Billing Period by clicking the “Apply to Alternate” button for that billing period.
Figure 4-37 Synchronizing Billing Cycles with the Apply to Alternate Button.
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