powertac/powertac-server — Issue #417: Tariff realized price should not include periodic payments
Author: jecollins
Created: 2011-11-07 16:15:37+00:00
State: open

I believe it was a mistake to include periodic payments in the calculation of realized price for a variable-rate tariff. This is because the periodic payments are independent of consumption/production quantity, and so they simply add some bias to the computed number and makes the data noisier than it should be. Better to let customers factor in the periodic payments separately, I think.