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.