Minimum Billing Demand

Hi, i am trying to implement this rule from my electric utility provider in SAM. 

"Customers are charged monthly for these allocated facilities and power supply as specified in the contract. The Minimum Billing Demand is 70% of the contracted power, and is the basis for the demand charge which customers have to pay regardless of how much power they've used. It's like having an internet data plan; Even if you don't use up the data allocated for your plan, you still pay for a minimum monthly service fee."

Is it possible to apply this in the electricity rates section in SAM? Thank you!
 

Hello,

Please see the "Billing Demand" section of the "Electricity Rates" Help topic for a description of how SAM models billing demand. For these kinds of details, you can usually get close enough with SAM.

samrepo.nrelcloud.org/help/electricity_rates.html

Best regards,
Paul.