Multiple Accounts Block Price Rate Aggregation
Learn how to apply block rate on multiple accounts for a Customer.
Some Customers may have multiple accounts when using Block Price rate. In this case, invoicing is done based on the actual usage, and any undertake or overtake needs to be divided evenly across all accounts. Similarly, the expected usage amount also needs to be the summation of expected usage of all accounts.
In this scenario, the Block Price rate calculation comparison is between overall actual usage across accounts and the overall expected usage across accounts. The updated expected usage for each account is then considered as the actual usage plus (or minus) the difference per account.
Following is one example to illustrate how Block Price rate consolidation is calculated.
Assuming, Customer has three accounts - 9325007000,
9805073008 and 9869584000.
- Usage for accounts:
32604 therms9325007000:50 therms9805073008:8929 therms9869584000:23625 therms
- Expected Usage for accounts:
36800 therms9325007000:36800 therms9805073008:36800 therms9869584000:36800 therms
- Expected Usage Range with
10% “Swing”:33120 to 40480 - Undertake:
33120 – 32604 = 516 - Divide undertake by
3:516/3 = 172 - Update expected usage to actual usage + undertake per account
9325007000:50 + 172 = 222 therms9805073008:8929 + 172 = 9101 therms9869584000:23625 + 172 = 23797 therms
In CIS, multi-Customer calculations are supported but done operationally outside of the system and then updated expected usage is reloaded.
On the CIS UI, the “Swing” percentage is 0%, since the UI is generic user interface and the updated calculation has considered the previous 10% already in the calculation and should not over-calculate again.