Composite Calendar

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sdg.marinusvz
2024-01-19 18:28

When you add the Composite Calendar entity, you basically select as input a number of other Calendars, which might be Time of Use Calendars, Split Incomer Calendars, or any combination of any other kinds of Calendars (entities exporting the Calendar interface).


The total number of Schedules created by that action would be the product of the input Schedules. For instance, lets say you create a Composite Calendar with a Time of Use Calendar as input that has 3 Schedules - Peak, Standard and Off Peak, and a Split Incomer Calendar that has 3 Schedules - Solar, Generator and Grid. The number of Schedules the Composite Calendar would have would be 3 x 3 = 9.
Solar Peak, Solar Standard, Solar Off Peak, Generator Peak, Generator Standard, Generator Off Peak, Grid Peak, Grid Standard and Grid Off Peak.

Then you can choose a number of calculation options: AND, OR, AND NOT, OR NOT.

The one that makes the most sense is the AND option. Basically what that means is that the sum of the TOUID multiplier over all the Schedules would be a total of 1 - or multiplying them together - for example if you have Peak 1 and Solar 0.5 and Grid 0.5, then Peak Solar would be 0.5, and Peak Grid would be 0.5, so over the 9 Schedules listed above, the total would still be 1.

However, depending on your needs, you can also select OR, which chooses the maximum of the component TOU values;
AND NOT is to do the AND (multiplication), and then subtract that from 1.
OR NOT is to subtract the OR value from 1.

By using this entity, you can bill separately for concurrent generator and/or solar, while still charging Grid energy according to Peak/Standard/Off Peak Time of Use tariffs. And you can do so separately or concurrently.




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