Here in VA, Dominion Power has a commercial rate schedule (GS-3) that is
primarily a demand-based rate schedule. Energy is provided at something
like 3 cents / KWH, and the demand charges are broken down into
distribution and generation.
Distribution is $2.12 per the max KW measured throughout the year (in
reality it is negotiated with the provider, but I'm simplifying it this
way)
Generation is the peak demand of that month or 75% of the highest demand
measured from June to September of the preceding 11 months.
Has anyone successfully created a user expression to do something like
this?
To use the distribution as an example: can you even perform a routine
that finds the max billing demand KW for the year, or is that outside of
the scope of eQuest / DOE-2?
Thanks!
GHT Limited
James Hansen, P.E., LEED AP
My $0.02 on this is that I've always done this type of calc (i.e. ratchet) in Excel using data from eQuest. It's just easier from my perspective to do in Excel (since we already had worksheets set up to do this).
However, eQuest appears to have some capabilities in this area to model a ratchet clause in the rate tariff. I've just never used them.
Click on the electricity rate, then go to Ratchets, then create a new one.
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This new ratchet shows up in the menu on the left just under the block charges.
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Click on Ratchet 1 and then edit as needed to define the demand ratchet properties.
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It looks like you can assign a schedule to control when the ratchet is applied (i.e. June to Sep).
RATCHET-SCH
U-name for a SCHEDULE which defines the period over which the ratchet will be calculated. If not specified, the ratchet is assumed to be active all hours. This keyword is useful when one ratchet applies to winter demand, and a different ratchet to summer demand. On-peak/off-peak ratchets can also be defined. The ratcheted demand will be the maximum demand encountered during the scheduled period. If NUM-MONTHS is less than the period defined in the RATCHET-SCH, then a sliding ratchet will occur during the scheduled period. For example, assume RATCHET-SCH is defined to be active from April through October, and NUM-MONTHS is 4. If the current month is June, then the billing demand will be the maximum of the current month's peak, May's, April's, or October's.
Hope this helps! : )
Regards,
JAH
James A. Hess, PE, CEM, BEMP
This keyword is useful when one ratchet applies to winter demand, and a different ratchet to summer demand. -Steven Delarge
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