2 Getting Started

This guide is used during the Oracle Utilities Opower launch process to provide product design information, collect utility configuration preferences for the products being launched, and track the finalization of these preferences. The preferences are then used to set up your Oracle Utilities Opower products and platform. This documentation focuses on the configuration preferences for the Oracle Utilities Opower Rates Engagement cloud service.

Product Overview

The Oracle Utilities Opower Rates Engagement cloud service enables customers to view energy cost insights and trends, learn about available rate plans, and view projected energy cost savings from joining a new rate plan. This information helps customers better understand the cost implications of their energy use, and empowers them to be more energy efficient.

The layout of Rates Engagement web features is responsive so that the functionality can display correctly on mobile as well as desktop displays. This design allows for a single version of a website that automatically adjusts based on the customer's screen size and orientation. Note that the responsive design can cause user experience variations because the components of a widget may be hidden or adjusted. For example, separate navigation options can be combined into a single drop-down list on smaller screen sizes.

Be aware that adjustments to account for smaller screen sizes can cause the appearance of widgets to be different than the images provided as configuration option examples. Additionally, the width of widgets that are embedded in containers is restricted by the container. This can cause embedded widgets to switch to smaller, responsive layouts at larger, overall screen sizes as compared to widgets that can utilize the full width of the page.

For information on the requirements and steps to embed widgets, see the Oracle Utilities Opower Embeddable Widgets Integration Guide.

Disclaimers

Your utility might not have all of the products or features described in this document. Contact Your Delivery Team if you have any questions.