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5. Getting Started!
The tariff analysis tool is designed to assist stakeholders to investigate how different tariff structures impact on the expected bills of different types of residential consumers. The tool offers a range of different analysis and result visualisations as described in this section. In summary the tool allows users to:
- Create projects and add analysis to different projects for later referral
- Choose from the existing load profiles (more than 5000 annual household load profiles)
- Filter the load profiles based on the available demographic information
- Import new load profile and demographic information
- Visualise the individual and aggregate load profiles using multiple methods including seasonal pattern, peak analysis, annual energy distribution, daily interquartile range, etc
- Apply the network tariffs available in the tool (60+ tariffs for different Australian States) to calculate the annual bill based on any subset of the load profiles
- Apply the retail tariffs available in the tool
- Modify the parameters of the tariffs to investigate the impacts on annual bills
- Investigate different components of the network bill (DUOS, TUOS, and NUOS) to calculate the revenue for different sectors (distribution, transmission, etc). This can also be done for the retail component where retail tariffs are available
- Adjusting the network peak time to see the impact on the tariffs based on the coincident peak demand
- Create different types of new tariffs including, flat rate, time of use, block usage, demand charge, etc
- Compare the results of multiple analyses in different visualisation platforms including single variable comparison, dual variable comparison, and individual cases
- Export the figures, and copy them into clipboard to incorporate in any report
- Export the results to excel file to do further analysis on the results outside the tool The rest of this section introduces different parts of the tool and gives instructions on how to work with the tool.
The TDA tool does not need to installed in your computer. You only need to run the tool and do the analysis. In order to import and export the data properly (such as selecting load data, exporting result, etc), you need to keep all contents of the TDA folder. If you save a project, or create a new load/tariff, it will be also saved in this folder. Windows users need to run the TDA.exe and work with the tool. But if you are using Mac, each time you open the software, it will ask you to locate the TDA folder in your computer. Once asked, you should find the TDA folder and open it and then work with the tool.
While you are working with the tariff tool, you may want to save your current session for later referral. You can “save” the project, and later “open” the project with your saved analysis loaded in the tool. You can also delete any of the previously saved projects. You can also restart the tool to delete all analysis currently displaying on the tool and restart your analysis. If you do not save the project, the project name will be shown as “undefined” and any analysis will be lost if you close the software. Restarting the tool does not delete any project or load data. But any analyses after the last save will be lost. You cannot restore any deleted projects!
Using this menu, you can import new load data, delete any of the existing load data, or restore to the original load data list. Section 5.4 explains how to import new load data. You can also define the network load as described in 5.5. We will provide new load data as it becomes available. In that case you can just download the load data (.mat file) and put it in the “Data” directory in the TDA folder. You can check for new updates by clicking on Menu: Help > Check for Update. You can also set the maximum amount of missing data allowed as well as the down-sample rate (where a smaller percentage of the sample can be randomly selected, as described in section 5.3). By restoring the load data, any new load data you created will be lost.