Energy Billing Module design

The Energy Billing Module is a fully functional energy-based billing reporting system. It also provides load and consumption monitoring and reporting at the branch circuit level, which is typically used in data center applications.

Components

The following reports are part of this module:

Billing Report
Billing Summary Report
Billing Verification Report
Energy by IT Customer Report
Multiple Billing Report
Multiple Billing Export Report

Prerequisites

This module requires the following:

A certain hierarchy configuration and a rate file configuration.
Energy, or demand, or WAGES type input measurements. Any device type that can provide these measurement types can be used.
A Time of Use (TOU) schedule might have to be configured.
For the Energy by IT Customer Report, branch circuit level measurements are required, see Supported measurements and devices for more information.
The measurement data for the reports must be available as historical data logs in the database.
This module requires a separate license. See Licensing for more information.

Basic Energy and Demand measurements have been pre-mapped for this module, but might have to be adjusted or added to in the rate file. See Supported measurements and devices for more information.

Design Considerations

Setting up the hierarchy and the rate file requires manual xml file editing.
Importing the hierarchy requires command line tool use.
Expect 2-3 days of deployment time to configure this module.
The monitoring devices providing the billing data should have revenue metering accuracy.
The monitoring devices might require analog or digital inputs for WAGES monitoring.