Understanding Service Point Quantity Types

Service point quantity types define types of quantities that can be stored for a service point. These quantity types are often infrequently calculated descriptors of a given customer and how they relate, at an aggregate level, to either the customer base as a whole or their particular rate class. For example, a customer quantity may be used to store a scaling factor that describes how a given customer’s usage compares to the profiled usage for their rate class.

In a settlement implementation, service point quantity types can be used to define values calculated monthly, annually, etc., such as annual peak load contribution (PLC).

Service quantity types use the following parameters:

• The service type (electric, gas, water, etc.) for service point quantities of this type

• Quantity identifiers related to the current service point quantity type (used to provide shorthand descriptions of the various types of values measured by service point quantities of this type)