I have South California Edison (SCE) for my electric company and recently switched my rate from the standard 5 tiers to their TOU-D-EV plan. This gives me two tiers and three TOU periods. On-Peak, Off-Peak and Super Off-Peak. I updated my TED 5000 with the new TOU rate information and I was set. Or at least I thought I was until about 12 days into my billing cycle. TED was reporting that I was in Tier 2 even though I clearly wasn't. After a bit of thought process I figured out the problem and would like to make an offical TOU rate enhancement request (or get an idea how I can tweak TED to report properly.)
SCE gives each TOU period their own set of tiers. In my example, I'll keep Tier 1 at 0 - 100 KWh and tier 2 at 101 KWh and up. If I use 50 KWh's during On-Peak, 90 KWh's in Off-Peak and 120 KWh's in Super Off-Peak, I will still be in Tier 1 during On and Off peak times, but Tier 2 during Super Off-Peak. The problem is that TED can't separate out the different usages based on the time. So when I exceed 100 KWh's anytime during the billing cycle, TED reports that I am in Tier 2 even though I may not be based on the time of day.
Is it possible to have TED configured to see/calculate the tiering based on the usage for individual TOU periods rather than a cumulative total usage? Can this be an enhancement to the firmware? If so, do I need to open a support ticket or post somewhere else in the forums?
Thanks in advance for any tips or ideas on if this can be done without a firmware enhancement.
