Designing Holiday Templates

When designing your classic TOU map templates, a special consideration should be made for holidays that occur throughout the year. Look at your classic TOU map contracts and ask the following questions:

• Are special prices applicable on holidays? Do these special prices require new time of use codes?
• If holidays do not get special prices, does the daily template look like the daily template for other days for this classic TOU map, for example like a weekend day?
• Do your holidays all have the same time period definitions as each other?

For our example, let's assume that our holidays use the Off Peak time of use for the season that it is in. In other words, winter holidays will use OFFWIN for every interval in that day and summer holidays will use OFFSUM for every interval in that day. As a result, we will not need to create a new template just for holidays. Instead, we can use the 15MinWntrWknd daily template for winter holidays and the 15MinSmrWknd daily template for summer holidays.