Computer program for calculating time-of-use, block, and demand charges for electricity usage (ERATES), (Version 1. 0) (for microcomputers). Software

Miscellaneous · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:5568159

ERATES (Electricity Rates) is a computer program for calculating monthly and annual electricity costs for a facility, building, or system under a variety of electric utility rate schedules. Both kWh usage and maximum kW demand charges can be included in these costs. Most typically these calculations will be used to support engineering-economic studies which assess the cost-effectiveness of energy conservation measures or measures to shift electricity use from on-peak to off-peak time periods. With ERATES a user can set up time-of-use-rate schedules, block-rate schedules, and demand-rate schedules and save these schedules to a disk file. The user can then compute monthly and annual electricity costs with the program, given hourly or monthly kWh usage and kW demand data for a facility, building, or system. ERATES block-rate and demand-rate schedules can be imported by the NIST BLCC (PB94-500055) computer program for use in computing the life-cycle cost of buildings and building systems. ERATES is not intended for use by utilities in setting up or administering electric rate schedules.

• Research Organization: National Inst. of Standards and Technology (CAML), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Office of Applied Economics
• OSTI ID: 5568159
• Report Number(s): PB-94-500097/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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