Compare to Last Year View

The Compare to Last Year view gives customers a graphical overview of their monthly costs for the current year and the previous year. This view is only available to solar customers, and the utility must have Digital Self-Service Energy Management Cloud Service and Distributed Energy Resources Customer Engagement Cloud Service for their solar customers to see it.

Design

The following image is an example of the Compare to Last Year view.

Figure 2-12 Compare to Last Year

Configuration Options

For each element listed in the table, indicate the desired configuration in the Input Value column. If you do not provide an input for optional configurations, the default will be used.

Table 2-3 Configuration Options

Configuration Option	Input Value
Chart Display and Order (not depicted) Utilities can choose which graphs to display and the order in which to display them. Default: Compare to Last Year view is not enabled in Data Browser.	Required Choose one of the following: Default Work with the Delivery Team to have Compare to Last Year view enabled.

Configuration Option

Input Value

Chart Display and Order (not depicted)

Utilities can choose which graphs to display and the order in which to display them.

Default:

Compare to Last Year view is not enabled in Data Browser.

Required

Choose one of the following:

Default
Work with the Delivery Team to have Compare to Last Year view enabled.

User Experience Variations

This section discusses how the experience can vary.

Tooltip Variations

Solar customers using the Compare to Last Year view may see one or more of the following message variations on the tooltip when hovering their cursor over a bar on the chart.

The bill was estimated: See DSS EM Data Browser for more information about bill estimates.
No data from X is available: This message appears when only partial data from the previous year is available.
No data from previous year is available: This message appears if the customer was not a customer last year.

Variations by Solar Tariff Type

Solar Tariff Type	Variation
Net Metering	Monthly Billing Customers: Net Metering customers with monthly billing will see the last 12 to 13 bill periods compared to the bill periods one year prior to each billing period. Annual Billing Customers: Net Metering customers with annual billing will see that the X-axis and This Year's Bills will match the X-axis and This Year's Bills displayed in the Energy Cost Year view. Therefore, a customer who is only six months into their billing year will only see six months of bills from this year and all bills from the prior year.
Net Billing	Net Billing customers will see the last 12 to 13 bill periods compared to the bill periods one year prior to each billing period

Solar Tariff Type

Variation

Net Metering

Monthly Billing Customers: Net Metering customers with monthly billing will see the last 12 to 13 bill periods compared to the bill periods one year prior to each billing period.

Annual Billing Customers: Net Metering customers with annual billing will see that the X-axis and This Year's Bills will match the X-axis and This Year's Bills displayed in the Energy Cost Year view. Therefore, a customer who is only six months into their billing year will only see six months of bills from this year and all bills from the prior year.

Net Billing

Net Billing customers will see the last 12 to 13 bill periods compared to the bill periods one year prior to each billing period