One of the most important tasks of present day smart grid implementations is to classify different types of consumers (households, office buildings and industrial plants) because they may be served by the power supplier with different parameters, rates, contracts.
Rates were determined by assigning weights to previously obtained tariff rates, contracting rates for public and private hospitals and average value per claim for the preceding years.
So, he said, the letter writer should ask the owner of his apartment to have the co-op include him in the bulk-rate contract.
Rodriguez's effort to restructure his contract so the Rangers can trade him to the Red Sox has, in some ways, brought back the old A-Rod, the one on a cut-rate contract who thirsted for competition.
When I called the company, I was told that when the new bulk-rate contract was renewed, the co-op told the cable company to charge rental tenants the retail rate.
For its part, the company's returns are in some cases based on a flat-rate contract with states, and in other cases are based on how many people play.
Mr. Ward said this problem will not recur because the library now has a flat-rate contract with a health insurance company and will not be liable for catastrophic medical bills.
The court said that the lump-sum clause in the man's (higher-rate) contract was ambiguous, and therefore invalid, so he need only repay, in instalments, what he owed under the lower-rate law.
By this time, Trippi had negotiated a bargain-rate contract with Meetup, which allowed the campaign to sponsor its own events and to begin to compile what, at last count, had become a list of more than a half million e-mail addresses.
The firm switched from a piece-rates contract and an attendance bonus and instituted a two tier incentive plan comprising two different but complementary performance-based bonus schemes: one tier based on individual team performance and the other tier on plant-wide performance.
We characterize the optimal piece-rate contract in the canonical moral hazard setting with a wealth-constrained, risk averse agent.
