On-demand bill calculation against any North American tariff. Post a usage scenario and receive a modeled cost breakdown, or use the mass calculation endpoint to price many scenarios in one request for savings analysis, bill auditing and rate comparison.
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"description": "Specify the usage data and applicabilities for the calculation as an Array of PropertyData",
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"keyName": {
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"description": "The key name of the property associated with this input. The most common one will be consumption (which is the kWh for the period), and second most common is demand (kW), but can also be applicability properties like cityLimits or hasElectricVehicle"
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"fromDateTime": {
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"description": "The start of the period where this property is applicable. (Default= fromDateTime for the calculation request)",
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"description": "The end of the period where this property is applicable. (Default= toDateTime for the calculation request)",
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"period": {
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"description": "The value to use for this property. Can be input as the native type, but when populated will be returned as a string. (Required on input when not using dataSeries. dataValue or dataSeries is required, but requests must not specify both.)"
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"description": "Used for properties which have many values, such as consumption time series data. (Required on input when not using dataValue. dataValue or dataSeries is required, but requests must not specify both.)",
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"duration": {
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"description": "Used with dataSeries to specify the time span corresponding to each value in the dataSeries. (Required on input when using dataSeries)",
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"unit": {
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"description": "For applicable properties (like usage data) scales the inputs by the value provided",
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"operator": {
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"description": "For profile data only. Specifies how profiles should be joined.",
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"detailLevel": {
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"CHARGE_TYPE_AND_TOU",
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"groupBy": {
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"zipCode": {
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"description": "See examples for the cases when you need location data. When populating this field you should also populate country too. (Optional and usually not needed)"
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"country": {
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"description": "Use this when passing in a zipCode or postCode, and set it to the ISO Country Code of your zipCode since some countries use the same format (Use with zipCode)"
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"address": {
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"description": "An alternative to using zipCode and country. (Optional and usually not needed)",
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"description": "Full free text string representing address. This is the property that is usually passed in. Zip will suffice but the full address is better."
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"addressName": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A name associated with the address (e.g. Headquarters). Not usually set."
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"address1": {
"type": "string",
"description": "First part of the address. Usually populated by our address validation from the addressString passed in."
},
"address2": {
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"description": "Second part of the address. Usually populated by our address validation from the addressString passed in."
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"city": {
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"state": {
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"zip": {
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"country": {
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"lon": {
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"description": "Longitude of the address. We\u2019ll populate this by geo-tagging the address.",
"format": "double"
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"lat": {
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"description": "Latitude of the address. We\u2019ll populate this by geo-tagging the address.",
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"tariffEffectiveOn": {
"type": "string",
"description": "This field enables doing a calculation with a single, specified version of a given tariff. For example, if the user specifies that they want to use the 2016-01-01 version of PG&E\u2019s E-1 tariff, any calculation, regardless of it's time range, would use the rate data from that version and only that version of the tariff.",
"format": "date"
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"rateInputs": {
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"description": "The rate input values are used to override existing rates on the tariff during the calculation. This enables modeling and/or setting customer specific rates during a calculation.",
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"description": "Unique Genability ID (primary key) for each tariff rate",
"format": "int64"
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"tariffId": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Associates the rate with a tariff (foreign key)",
"format": "int64"
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"riderTariffId": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Tariff ID of the rider attached to this tariff version. null otherwise",
"format": "int64"
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"riderId": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Master Tariff ID of the rider linked to this tariff rate.",
"format": "int64"
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"tariffSequenceNumber": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Sequence of this rate in the tariff, for display purposes only (e.g. this is the order on the bill)",
"format": "int32"
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"tariffBookSequenceNumber": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Sequence of this rate in the tariff source document, if it differs from tariffSequenceNumber",
"format": "int32"
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"rateGroupName": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Name of the group this rate belongs to"
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"tariffBookRateGroupName": {
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"description": "Name of the group this rate belongs to in the tariff source document, if it differs from rateGroupName"
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"rateName": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Name of this rate. Can be null (in which case use the group name)"
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"tariffBookRateName": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Name of this rate in the tariff source document, if it differs from rateName"
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"rateBands": {
"type": "array",
"description": "List of TariffRateBands",
"items": {
"properties": {
"rateAmount": {
"type": "string"
},
"rateUnit": {
"type": "string",
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"fromDateTime": {
"type": "string",
"description": "If populated, this indicates the rates effective date is not the same as that of its tariff",
"format": "date"
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"toDateTime": {
"type": "string",
"description": "If populated, this indicates the rates end date is not the same as that of its tariff",
"format": "date"
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"territory": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Only populated when this rate applies to a different region than the whole tariff (e.g. California Baseline Regions). This how-to has more."
},
"season": {
"type": "string",
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