Friday, December 17, 2010

Does TOU Save You Money?

To see the effects of Time Of Use for those who have smart meters doing that, you will have to compare a TOU billing to a bill from before TOU. That is, in my case, take the consumption last month and plug it into the figures for the summer. So you can do this yourself I have this template spreadsheet.



Create a spreadsheet like above with the following formula in each of these cells:

In C5 enter this: =SUM(C2:C4)

In D5 enter this:=SUM(D2:D4)

In A7 enter the first Kwh Consumption noted on your old bill

In B7 enter the rate on the first amount usage from the old bill

In C7 enter this: =C5-A7

In D7 enter this: =C7*B7

In B8 enter the rate from the old bills on the rest of your consumption

In C8 enter this: =C5-C7

In D8 enter this: =C8*B8

In C9 enter this: =SUM(C7:C8) (it should be the same value as C5 when it displays)

In D9 enter this:=SUM(D7:D8)

In D11 enter this:=D9-D5

D11 will be the difference between TOU on your bill compared to what your bill would have been had TOU not applied. If positive TOU is saving you money, if negative, it's costing you.

You can copy all these cells and do a month on each worktab and follow what happens over the winter.

I would be most interested in gathering cases from anyone over the next months and come March post the results here.

If you are having problems setting this up I can email you a template to work with.

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