Billing Summary
The Billing Summary Report provides meter readings for each usage point in a Usage Point Group for a selected billing period. This information can be used as input to the tenant billing process. By default, the billing period is one calendar month from 00:00 hours on the first day of the month to 00:00 on the first day of the following month (or 24:00 on the last day of the month).
To run the report, choose the Usage point Group then:
- Select the billing period (month)
- Select the reading types
- Optionally tick one or both of
Tariff bandsto include readings in each Time of Use (ToU) bandMaximum demandto show the maximum reading (and the date and time of occurrence) in the billing period- Click the
Runbutton
The following table describes each column of the report.
| Column Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Service Location | Location of an individual usage point. For residential or most businesses, it is typically the location of a meter on the customer's premises. For transmission, it is the point(s) of interconnection on the transmission provider's transmission system where capacity and/or energy transmitted by the transmission provider is made available to the receiving party. The point(s) of delivery is specified in the service agreement. |
| Usage Point | A name identifying a usage point. A usage point is a logical or physical point in the network to which readings or events may be attributed. Used at the place where a physical or virtual meter may be located; however, it is not required that a meter be present. |
| ID / NMI | Unique usage point identifier. Either a National Metering Identifier (NMI) where allocated or an internally generated identifier. |
| Metrology Requirement | The type of measurement being made at the usage point. |
| Meter S/N | The meter serial number. |
| Period Start Reading | The meter reading at the start of the billing period, i.e. at 00:00 on the 1st of the month. |
| Period End Reading | The meter reading at the end of the billing period, i.e. at 24:00 on the last day of the month. |
| Consumption | The difference between the Period Start Reading and Period End Reading |
| Max Demand | The maximum demand, i.e. the peak instantaneous value, recorded during the billing period. |
| Time of Max Demand | The date and time at which the maximum demand occurred. |
Handling mid-month move-in or move-outs
When a tenant moves in or out of a service location part way through the month part of the reported billing total should be apportioned to each tenant. The Billing Summary Report does not cater for tenant movements mid-month. Instead, you can use the Special Read Report together with the Billing Summary report to retrospectively obtain an estimated reading mid-month.
Handling meter churn
Meter change-outs can lead to mis-leading information in the billing report. When an old meter is replaced with a new one the report's opening and closing readings came from different meters and so cannot be used for accurate billing that month - for example, if the new meter started accumulation from zero then the closing reading may be bell lower than the opening reading. To gain an accurate opening and closing reading use the Special Read Report to obtain an estimated reading for the month.
Options
This report can optionally display billing totals and maximum demand for each tariff band. Tariff bands are referred to as Rate A, Rate B, Rate C, etc. corresponding to terms like Peak, Shoulder and Off-Peak, as designated in your customer agreement.
Above is a sample report with Tariff bands selected.
Above is a sample report with Maximum demand selected.