@aj.vandenberghe, I absolutely agree with you. ToU and other billing information should be baked-into the Sense costing mechanism eventually. My only disagreement is when users say it is an extremely easy feature to implement, and need the feature yesterday, but yet can’t be bothered to try via spreadsheet, when the base spreadsheet has been given to them… Strikes me that they are creating artificial urgency and are intellectually dishonest about it being so easy.
ps: Capturing all the possible billing data, let alone the associates calculations, is extremely hard. I have a pointer on another thread to the OpenEI database that has something like 55K rate plans for the US. I think PG&E alone had 750 or so. Many of the PG&E ones have expired, but that’s no guarantee all users are going to be off of them, due to waivers (I’m on a waiver right now). Plus many are commercial, but then again, I have seen a number of small businesses using Sense, so you can’t exclude many of those plans. Bottom line - I challenge any user who says “implementing rate plans is easy”, to even parse all the rates in .json database, and give a summary of how many different types of calculations are needed to accommodate all the residential plans. I’ll bet I get no takers (except maybe me)