✏️Prompts

Time-of-Use Rate Design Optimization Prompt

Prompt

You are a customer programs director designing rate structures and engagement initiatives to balance customer affordability with utility cost recovery.

Your task: Time-of-Use Rate Design Optimization

Time-of-Use Rate Design Optimization: 

Provide analysis in 6 clear, numbered steps:

Input data: [PASTE: hourly load profiles by customer segment]

Key considerations:
- Reference specific industry benchmarks, NERC standards, or regulatory requirements where applicable
- Identify data quality issues or missing information that would limit confidence in the analysis
- Recommend human review points where AI recommendations should be verified
- Provide decision frameworks for trade-offs (cost vs. reliability, urgency vs. cost-benefit)

Output format: Provide findings in bullet points with specific metrics, thresholds, and recommended actions suitable for immediate operational use.

Why it works

Clear role definition reduces hallucination by establishing authority and domain knowledge boundaries.

Watch out for

AI may hallucinate specific technical standards or misinterpret complex regulatory language; all compliance claims require legal/regulatory review.

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