Price that has both a time and quantity reference, such as a demand price ($/kW/365 days).

Contact bill is a document sign by both parties (contractor and client) to seal agreement for contract.

Record containing all data necessary for notifications to the municipality.

A component of apparent energy which is actually used to do work.

Component of apparent power which is actually used to create power.

Total electrical power of a reference value.

The basic procedure used by period control to calculate the length of time portions (billing-relevant periods).

Fixed amount-independent part of a price.

Determination of the most favorable rate for the customer using several alternatives.

Function used to bill for the utility services provided by a utility company.

Quotiant made up of PT/CT ratio and the transformer ratio of a meter with an upstream transformer. This quotiant is then multiplied by the recorded consumption or demand in order to determine the actu [..]

Data record created during the meter reading order creation relevant to billing. A billing order is created for each contract.

The actual length of time during which billing is performed.

Structure that defines the order in which variant programs for rates to be billed must be executed.

An entity in Contract Billing (IS-U-BI) which is integrated in the billing schema according to the IS-U data model.

Transaction that classifies billing documents according to their purpose of use.

Price used for valuating a quantity with the price from a particular interval.

Parameter that controls the processing of the mass simulation index.

Certain sequential quantity areas (for demand or energy) where specific prices apply for each area.

Energy that a utility company uses for its own purposes, such as for lighting its own building.

A rate that, under certain conditions, can be allocated to a basic rate as a supplement or as a substitute.

Consumption data updated periodically (for example monthly or yearly) in the installation facts. This data allows you to determine the historical consumption pattern of a customer.

Billing procedure in which one utility company includes the billing amounts for the services of a third party together with its own on one bill.

Adjustment ratio determined by comparing the power factor specified in the contract with the calculated power factor (cosine phi).

Meter that is installed at the customer, where energy consumption is paid for in advance. The customer can purchase a payment device, such as cards or tokens, to a certain value, which he/she inserts [..]

Control for the price adjustment factor, which is multiplied by a basic price to obtain a current price.

Classification of device categories that are treated the same with respect to price.

Part of a time-of-use exception program representing a single occurrance of an excpetion.

Groups together time-of-use exceptions that belong to the same context (such as demand response program or CPP program).

Response from an advanced meter regarding its participation in a time-of-use exception.

A quantity used to determine the price block for a block or scale price.The price amount is then billed for this price block.

Individually determined symbolic name for the assigned values that are used as input and output parameters in variant programs.

A fixed predetermined property that is allocated to an operand.

Splitting of a billing period due to changes in data.

Conversion of a read unit of measurement to a unit of measurement to be billed.

Price that has a quantity reference but no time reference, such as an energy price ($/kWh).

Billing rule for a register or a reference value that refers to all the billing-related steps executed during billing.

Classification of an installation for billing purposes.

Grouping of individual facts that are allocated to a rate.

Classification of a register, flat rate or reference value for billing purposes.

Component of apparent energy that does not yield energy.

Component of apparent power that does not yield work.

The amount a customer must pay regularly to a utility company to repay existing debts.

Value not measured by a register that is used for calculating charges.

Average load for which a meter is designed under normal operating conditions.

Price for supplying the customer with a measuring device (such as a meter) for a certain period of time.

Electrical power that a utility company keeps on reserve for customers who produce their own energy.

Price used for valuating the total quantity with the price from the last interval.

Certain consecutive quantity areas for demand or energy. When one quantity area is exceeded, a different price applies to the total quantity.

Data record in which individual dates are managed, including meter reading dates, billing dates, and budget billing amount due dates.

Planned billing period, in which billing is to be performed. The scheduled billing period is defined in scheduling.

Structure that defines the sequence in which variant programs (calculation/processing steps) must be executed.

Single component (variant program) of a schema.

Division of a year into fixed periods that do not overlap and that add up to exactly one year. Separate conditions apply to each period, which are taken into account in billing.

Length of a billing-relevant period that is determined in period control.

Time interval within which a specified object was not changed.

Billing procedure with billing dates spread over the year for different customer sections in a utility company.

Period between the meter reading date of the last periodic result plus 1 day and the meter reading date of the current periodic result.

Contains all individual contracts that are to be billed together.

Billing procedure in which one utility company creates a single bill for the end customer, including services of several companies all having separate balance sheets. This one company also maintains j [..]

Shop where the customer can purchase credit for his/her prepayment meter.

A procedure whereby a document is placed on an exception list if it has failed validation during billing or invoicing.

Procedure whereby a document is placed on an exception list if it has failed validation during billing or invoicing. The clerk must check and, if necessary, release each outsorted document.

General term for a group of checks to be performed for the purpose of outsorting bills.

Characteristic that defines how periods are created for dynamic period control.

A meter that measures energy consumption.

Consists of days and is used in the time-of-use interface (TOU interface).

Demand data updated periodically (for example monthly or yearly) in the installation facts. This data allows you to determine the historical demand pattern of a customer.

Price per unit of demand to be billed for a certain period (such as one year).

Contractual or rate regulation concerning a reduction in the amount charged to a customer.

Factor used to distribute the consumption from an existing register amongst simulated registers. This factor is used in a simulation, for example, if additional registers are required for a certain ra [..]

Duty on the net amount of a bill, differing from region to region. Examples: compensation tax, Bigge surcharge.

A control that, during billing, permits flexible backbilling of periods that have already been billed.

Emergency credit limit is the maximum amount a customer can borrow for gas consumption. If a customer runs out of credit on their meter and is temporarily unable to buy any more credit, they can borro [..]

A set amount that has to be reached before a customer can access emergency credit. For example, the emergency credit threshold is set at 1 Dollar in a customer's meter. When the customer's c [..]

Billing for employees of utility companies.

Unit price for electricity, such as cents/kWh.

Day on which consumsption behavior deviates from that on normal days.

Consists of a number of exception days and is allocated to a time-of-use interface (TOU interface).

Special time-of-use interface used to define billing rules for an exceptional time-of-use period.

A time-of-use period during which special rules and prices apply for time-of-use billing.

Concrete values (such as 100 kW) or keys (for prices, for example) that are allocated to operands and are valid for a specific period.

Value that, in conjunction with the period category, controls the length of a billing or meter reading period.

Additional billing at the end of a period whereby the customer is billed for the closed period, for example, by means of backbilling.

Schema containing the steps required for period-end billing.

Billing triggered when a customer moves out or when the service territory is transferred to another supplier.

Billing record that is used when a certain value cannot be measured, for example, if using a meter would be uneconomical.

Procedure for the unbilled revenue reporting of a business period.

Type of billing that can be used for billings that occur within the year. All billings executed within the billing year are settled automatically, on the basis of an anticipated billing result.

Contract between a utility company and the municipality about payment of a franchise fee. The franchise contract applies to only one division.

Payment by the utility company to municipalities whereby the utility company obtains the right to supply energy directly to customers in these regions. This allows the utility company to use public tr [..]

Company's own grouping of business partners that are subject to the same franchise fee conditions, such as major customers.

Electric power that a utility company supplies to customers who produce their own energy. This covers the customer's power need that surpasses in-plant generation.

Amount established in the contract or rate that is included in the customer's bill amount.

Period between the meter reading date of the last periodic result and the meter reading date of the current periodic result minus 1 day.

Energy that a utility company uses during the production and distribution of energy.

Indicator that is used to define the periods to be billed. They are defined in the billing schema.

Unit price per reference value for providing electric power for a certain period of time.

Consumption billing performed in regular intervals.

Positive difference of the demand actually used and the demand agreed upon in the contract.

Classification of contracts within one division, for example, residential contracts or nonresidential contracts.

Consumption or demand for a register that is relevant to meter reading, in a period with a maximum of 365 days.

Customer-defined version of the base calculation procedure used to calculate the length of time portions (billing-relevant periods).

Payment that a customer makes a year in advance for a service to be rendered by the utility company.

Average of values from a period in which values are to be weighted proportionately. The products of physical values (temperature, calorfic value, or air pressure, for example) or consumption are added [..]

A group of different utility installations. An installation group contains a primary installation and one or more secondary installations. You can define special billing rules for installation groups. [..]

Module in rates or schemas that contains a billing rule.

Key for the rate time zone to which a register is allocated with respect to installation and billing.

Consumption proration used for determining and valuating quantities sold and billed for the balance sheet of the closing balance period.