Example Using Aggregated Consumption

A customer, Fresh Foods has 10 stores each with its own account and electric service agreement, i.e., each store is billed separately. Fresh Food's head office decides to negotiate a group discount that applies to one or more of the individual stores.

In the following diagram, one store's account is shown.

Example Using Aggregated Consumption

Note the following:

  • An SA relationship is created for the energy SA covered by the negotiated terms.
  • The service provider in the relationship is the head office.
  • This relationship does not have a sub-SA because no additional billing services are provided for each individual covered service agreement.
  • Discounts are calculated using the head office discount service agreement and affect only this service agreement and therefore only the head office's account.
  • The master SA may have other deregulated relationships, such as the distribution relationship shown.
Note:

Aggregated consumption algorithm. In this scenario, the service provider's service agreement amalgamates the group's consumption and applies a rate to calculate the discount. This algorithm is not provided - you get to write this algorithm to meet your needs.