This document provides an overview and demonstration of EnergyCAP's submetering and chargeback functionality. It discusses navigating customer and account hierarchies, the building blocks of a chargeback including customers, accounts, meters and distributions, and examples of simple split distributions. It also covers order of setup, distribution setup, creating chargeback bills, submeter terminology and setup, and answering questions.
2. Navigating Customers and Chargebacks
Demonstration
Demonstrate the various ways to view distributions
By Master Meter
By Accounts hierarchy
By Buildings and Meters hierarchy
3. The Building Blocks of a Chargeback
Demonstration
Begin with a sketch!
The building blocks are…
Customer, Chargeback Account, Chargeback Meter,
Chargeback Distribution
4. The Building Blocks of a Chargeback
Demonstration (cont’d)
Distributions can contain
Split Percentages
Fixed Costs and/or Percentages at either the account
or meter
Submeters
Mixture of the above
7. Order of Setup Spreadsheets
Import the spreadsheet after completing each one
1. Customers
2. Accounts and Meters
3. Distribution Version
4. Simple Splits
5. Channels
6. Simple Submeters
8. Distribution Setup Demonstration
Create your customer(s)
Create your accounts and meters; we only support one-to-
one relationships
Using a setup sheet for simple distributions
Using the application to setup more complex distributions
Split 1068_SM1 to Department C, E, and F Chargebeack
Accounts
Demonstrate initializing a meter (1068_SM1 & 1068_SM2)
More on importing data in the next session in this track
9. Submeter Terminology & Setup Demo
Channel Properties
Odometer or Trip
Interval (43200 = minutes in a 30 day month)
Unit of Measure (VALUE)
Reading Type (READINGUSE)
Multiplier
Maximum Reading (including decimals)
10. Submeter Terminology & Setup Demo
(cont’d)
The Meter and its channels are added to a Route
ECO now transforms sub-monthly interval readings
on the fly for bill creation! More on this topic in the
next session in this track.
11. Creating Chargeback Bills Demo
First ensure you have all the pieces (Vendor bill, rate,
submeter readings, etc.)
Execute the Chargeback Processor
New Batch
Filters – especially import is the date range
Void / Delete if you make a mistake
12. Creating Chargeback Bills Demo (cont’d)
Hmmm, I expected to see more bills
Is your source bill approved? Is it void? Could the
source bill have already been split? Do you have new
readings or do they overlap existing bills?
Show how to compare created bills with the master bill
Welcome to the session on Submeters and the Chargeback Manager. Let’s start off with a quick poll …
How many of you are getting submeter data today?
From your Vendor?
From a submeter system?
Manually entering readings?
How many of you are generating bills for internal customers using EnergyCAP?
Submeter reading based?
Percentage Split based?
Combination?
How many of you are still using ECE to do all of this? ECO? Combination of both?
Did any of you come into this session with a burning question on your mind?
For those of you still using ECE, –you’re really going to like what I have to say in this session.
When using Setup Sheets in General, follow this pattern.
Generate the Spreadsheet
Edit and Save the Spreadsheet
Import the Spreadsheet
Generate the next Spreadsheet
Show my setup sheets; explain a few of the fields and why they work in this order
Session 3 – Customers
Session 3 – Chargeback Accounts and Meters
Session 3 – Distribution Version
Session 3 – Simple Splits
Session 3 – Simple Submeter
Show the completed Shared Office Distribution
Show the completed Submetered Building Distribution
Show how to extend the Submetered Building Distribution to include a split
Initialize meter 1068_SM1 and 1068_SM2 via Routes:
Enter readings for the submeters (Trip) 0 reading and then the first real reading … note dates of readings must coincide with Unit Cost source.
The start date to use for submeter readings is 2/29/2016 to continue bill history, and since it is a trip meter that reading should be 0
Usage is typically between 30,000 and 40,000 kWh for this meter
Demonstrate this by adding a channel to meter 1050 from Meter Properties; stress that when you add a channel it should either be from a Distribution, when you import a file with readings in it, or by following the wizard. In this case the meter channel would only be useful to view submeter readings because the account and meter are not of the Chargeback Type.
Opportunity for Vance to remark on the drop-down list now available in ECO
In the past you had to have a monthly channel to create a Chargeback bill from submeter readings. Now we can create a bill from any interval. More on that in the next session in this track.
First ensure you have the pieces – if you’re splitting master bills then make sure you haven’t already split it. It can be deceiving if you just look at the split date. There are two fields that determine a split. The date and a split flag. This only pertains to percentage splits of a bill, not submeter readings. FYI: The split date is not cleared out if you undo a chargeback split.
When I run the chargeback processor we will see 4 bills if I updated the 1068 meter distribution to be complex.
Execute CBP for date range 2/28/2016 to Present
Why no bills for Account 1236 and meter 1072? Show example Bill List (Example Unsplit Bills) Answer – CBP Date Range!!
Other things to note
We have Invoice reports for customer bills
Use VOID / Delete if you made a mistake in processing bills
Anything you want me to go over again? Manual setup of a Chargeback Account and Meter?