Explaining How Reference Values and Street Lighting Are Billed

Group management: all lighting can be managed as one group. Lighting with specific connection loads are stored and billed together.

Individual management: in contrast to group management, each light is managed and linked to the regional structure separately.

Different connection loads: the connection loads of a light are divided into different operation modes. You can enter the following connection loads for a light:

• Demand for 24 hour lighting

• Demand for the whole night

• Demand for half the night

Billing using energy prices: The energy consumed by the street lights can be measured or calculated. A burning hour calendar can be used for storing monthly lighting periods. Lighting duration can be subdivided according to usage type and operation type in the calendar.

Billing using demand prices: lighting demand is determined and evaluated using connection loads.

• Required in order to calculate charges that are not based on measurements.

• Stored in the installation facts.

• The following types of reference value exist:

  • General reference values, for example for energy or water supply (connection loads, no. of people, floor area)

  • Lighting

  • Heating Installations

You can define which type of reference value is dealt with here. Different fields are available in the transaction maintenance depending on what you define here.

• Value 2 = value for billing

  • If you only specify value 1 (= entry value), then value 2 = value 1

• Indicator: Not relevant for billing

• Repetition factor

  • For example, lighting of the same type

• Rate type/rate fact group

Lighting: The different values for operation types are used in the burning hour calendar.

Value 1 is the entry value, or the installed value. It can be different from value 2, the value to be billed.

The repetition factor indicates how many reference values of the same type exist (such as lighting). These reference values do not have to be specified individually. However, if you wish to enter details about reference values (such as the address of the lighting), you must enter them individually. The value specified in the Value 2 field is multiplied by the repetition factor.