Introduction

Here are a few ground rules on the different business use cases enabled by the reimbursement billing engine: How to manage tariffs and pricing using GreenFlux platform?

When? This billing engine will run provided i) the charger(s) is/are hosted in GreenFlux backend and ii) the charger has a reimbursement tariff code assigned to it. Please not that assigning a reimbursement tariff code is not mandatory, contrary to the (wholesale) tariff.

What? It calculates the reimbursement costs.

Configuration of unit pricing:

Please be aware we can only calculate reimbursement costs for sessions whose chargers are hosted in GreenFlux platform and managed by you as an operator

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The underlying principles for managing reimbursement costs are the following:

Any given charger may or not have a reimbursement tariff assigned to it. When it does, then the reimbursement billing engine runs for every session on that charger. On it doesn’t, then the reimbursement billing engine is skipped in the CDR calculation.

Each reimbursement tariff should have associated billing rules, which must cover the charging scenarios for the CPO operators using them.

It is based on these two principles and the scenario at hand that the reimbursement billing engine will then do the cost calculation for a given session and after that generate the CDR (charge detail record).

Let us delve into how to configure unit pricing for reimbursement costs.

How to configure reimbursement unit pricing?

Use Case RMB1 - Create a new reimbursement tariff and billing rule

STEP 1:

Go to Reimbursement on the left menu

STEP 2:

Click ‘Add New’ button on the top right corner. The following pop-up will appear.

STEP 3:

Start typing on the Reimbursement Tariff Code. Define a suitable tariff code; You could specify a naming that identifies the location or set of locations where this tariff will be used, or you could define a naming that specifies the pricing (e.g. Reimb-E043 —> reimbursement 0.43 EUR/kWh)

STEP 4:

Populate the remaining fields.

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You should always create a default reimbursement billing rule - this billing rule should specify only CPO-n and the remaing fields in CPO and eMSP column left unspecified (any), which means the billing rule is applicable for any CPO-c, CPO, eMSP-n, …

Use Case RMB2 - Add a billing rule to cover an exceptional scenario

Typically, not applicable

Use Case RMB3 - Change the unit pricing of an existing billing rule

STEP 1:

Same as in Use Case RMB1.

STEP 2:

Locate the billing rule you want the unit pricing to be changed, click on the arrow and select ‘Schedule Price Change’

STEP 3:

Complete the wizard.

How to assign a reimbursement tariff to a charge station?

When creating or editing a charger station, there is a field ‘Default reimb. tariff’

The default logic for reimbursement tariff is the same as for wholesale tariffs, but in the case of reimbursement this is seldom used in real scenarios.