Run Calculations
Match bills, calculate costs, estimate usage, and inspect the details returned by Signal calculation APIs.
Start here after you know the customer’s utility, tariff, and usage inputs and need to run or interpret calculations.
Before you calculate, identify the customer's utility and tariff. If you already have the tariff and usage inputs, start with the bill-matching guide.
Recommended path
- Start with Run a Calculation to Match a Bill when you need to reproduce a customer's historical bill.
- Use Calculation Results Detail Level and Group By to control how calculation line items are returned.
- Review specialized calculation guides when your tariff includes system peak demand, net billing, Bill Solve, or other advanced structures.
Choose the calculation guide you need
Reproduce a customer's historical utility bill and calibrate inputs when the result does not match.
Identify the utility and tariff before running tariff-based calculations.
Learn how to identify relevant tariff rate criteria properties that impact rates and set them in your calculations to increase accuracy.
Learn how to determine which tariffs have a system peak demand charge, pass your customer's value, or estimate it when needed.
Use the detailLevel and groupBy request parameters to get the level of detail you need when running calculations.
Compare net metering and net billing tariff structures and learn how to run accurate calculations for each compensation method.
Estimate energy usage from electricity bills using Bill Solve in the On-Demand Cost Calculator API.
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