How to set-up electricity price lists in Reduxi Cloud

Detailed step-by-step guide. Version: May, 2026

1. Introduction to Electricity Pricing

Reduxi is an AI-based electricity control platform. To optimise energy consumption, the system requires accurate information about the electricity prices applicable to each location. Prices can be predefined at the global level and then assigned to individual customer locations or custom prices can be assigned directly by the end user.

Specifying pricing is a prerequisite for all price-based optimizations, including negative price optimization and AI strategies for battery storage, solar power plant, EV charging, and HVAC systems. Pricing data is required to accurately perform and calculate savings, earnings, self-consumption benefits, and overall financial optimization..

The total cost of electricity at any location consists of two independent components:

• Cost of the energy
• Grid/network fee

The total cost of electricity is the sum of the cost of energy and the grid/network fee.

Cost of the energy

The energy price paid to the electricity supplier can be structured in one of three ways:

Grid / network fee

The network fee is paid to the distribution system operator (DSO) and covers the use of the electricity grid. It consists of two parts:

• Cost for consumed energy — charged per kWh of electricity transported through the grid.
• Cost for capacity/power — charged per kW of peak demand recorded during the billing period.

Reduxi requires all four price components to be configured for a location: Supplier energy buy, Supplier energy sell, Distributor energy price (for grid), and Distributor power price (for grid).

The configuration workflow has three stages:

1. Manager role - define Time of Use plans — reusable weekly time schedules that define when each price period applies.
2. Manager role - define Predefined price lists — reusable price templates that attach actual prices to a pricing model (fixed, TOU, or SPOT). Can be later reused by the end-user.
3. Assign prices to an end-user location by selecting a predefined price list or entering a custom price for each component.

The end-user should continue with section 4. Assigning a Pricing Plan to an End User to define the pricing plan on their location.

2. Manager Role - Creating a Time of Use Plan

A Time of Use (TOU) plan defines a named weekly schedule of time periods (called time blocks). A typical example is low/high tariff example (e.g. night/day).

A TOU plan can only be created by the aggregator role (that is by managers, aggregators, installers etc.). If you are a regular end-user and a TOU plan you require is not available, please reach out to your manager to create a specific TOU plan.

Once created, a TOU plan can be referenced by any number of price lists. This section shows how to create a "Night/Day" plan for Austria, which divides each day into a night period and a day period.

2.1 Navigating to Time of Use

1. Log in to the Reduxi Cloud platform at reduxi.app.
2. Click the user icon or navigate to User > Settings.
3. Scroll to the Plans & Prices section and click Time of Use. (note, this is only available to aggregator account)

The Time of Use list page opens. It shows all existing TOU plans. Each entry displays the plan title, country, timezone, and which price types the plan covers.

2.2 Creating a new plan and selecting parameters

1. Click the + Add time of use button in the upper right corner of the list. A dialog box appears.

2. In the Title field, enter a descriptive name for the plan. In this example: Night/day.
3. In the Country dropdown, select the country where this plan applies. In this example: Austria. The Timezone field is automatically populated based on the selected country (e.g., Europe/Vienna).

4. Under Time of use types, tick the checkboxes for all price components that this TOU plan will govern. The available options are:

   • Supplier Energy Buy — the price of electricity purchased from the supplier.
   • Supplier Energy Sell — the price received for electricity exported to the grid (e.g., from solar).
   • Distributor Energy — the network energy fee per kWh.
   • Distributor Power — the network capacity fee per kW.

   Select all four types to make the TOU plan available for all price components.

5. Click Confirm. The TOU configuration wizard opens.

2.3 Defining time blocks

The wizard opens on Step 2 — Time blocks. In this step you define the named time categories (blocks) that will be used to label each hour of the week. For a night/day plan, you need two blocks: one for night and one for day.

1. Click + Add block in the upper right. The "Add block" dialog appears.
2. Enter the name of the first block: Night. Optionally change the colour using the colour selector. Click Confirm. The "Night" block now appears in the list.

3. Click + Add block again to add the second block.
4. Enter the name: day. Choose a different colour (e.g., green) so the two blocks are visually distinct. Click Confirm.
5. Click Next to proceed to Step 3 (Slots).

2.4 Defining pricing seasons and daily schedules

Step 3 — Slots allows you to define pricing seasons: date ranges within the year that each have their own weekly time schedule. For example, you can configure different schedules for summer and winter. In this example, a single season covering the full year is used.

1. Click + Add season. A season entry expands below.
2. Enter a title for the season, for example: all year.
3. Tick Select All under Months to include all twelve months. The month bar turns green to indicate all months are selected.
4. Click Save Changes to save the season definition.

5. The weekly schedule grid now shows a row for each day of the week (Monday through Sunday). Each row displays a 24-hour timeline. You must now assign time blocks to each hour of each day.
6. Click the edit icon (pencil) on the Monday row. A time assignment dialog opens, showing a 24-hour slider at the top and a list of time block assignments below.
7. Click Add time block. A row appears with a Time block dropdown and a range slider.
8. In the Time block dropdown, select Night. The slider represents the time range for this block. Drag the slider handles to set the start and end times (e.g., 00:00 to 06:00 for the first Night block).
9. Click Add time block again. Select day from the dropdown. Adjust the slider to cover the day period (e.g., 06:00 to 22:00).
10. Click Add time block a third time. Select Night. Set the range to cover the late-night period (e.g., 22:00 to 24:00).

11. Click Save all and close. The Monday row in the weekly grid updates to show the coloured schedule.
12. Repeat steps 5–10 for Tuesday through Sunday. You can copy the same night/day/night pattern for each day.

13. Click Finish to complete the TOU plan. The new plan now appears in the Time of Use list.

The "Night/day" plan is now available for use in predefined price lists and can be applied to any location in Austria.

3. Manager Role - Creating Predefined Price Lists

A predefined price list is a reusable pricing template that combines a price model type (Fixed, Time of use, or SPOT market) with actual price values. Once created, a price list can be assigned to any number of end-user locations. Typical use cases are pricing lists from energy suppliers, pricing lists for network etc. The end-user just selects one of them without much effort. This section demonstrates creating one example of each model type.

To open the Predefined price lists screen: go to Settings > Plans & Prices > Predefined price lists.

Click Create new to open the creation form. The form has the following fields:

• Name — a descriptive label for this price template.
• Country — the country this list applies to.
• Currency — the currency for all prices (EUR is pre-selected).
• Time of use types — which price component this list governs (Supplier Energy Buy, Supplier Energy Sell, Distributor Energy, or Distributor Power).
• Source type — a tab that explaining the type of the pricing lists Fixed, SPOT Market, and Time of use.

3.1 Fixed price plan

A fixed price plan charges a single constant price regardless of the time of day. This is the simplest pricing model.

1. Enter the Name: A fixed price model.
2. Select Country: Austria. The currency is automatically set to EUR.
3. Select Supplier Energy Buy (the radio button highlights the active type).
4. The Fixed tab is selected by default. Enter the price per kWh in the Price field. In this example: 0.12 EUR.

5. Click Save. The price list is created and appears in the overview table with Source Type: Fixed and the entered price.

3.2 Time of use price plan

A Time of use price plan assigns a different price to each time block defined in a TOU plan. This example creates a "Cheap night energy" plan using the "Night/day" TOU plan created in Section 2.

1. Click Create new.
2. Enter the Name: Cheap night energy.
3. Select Country: Austria.
4. Select Supplier Energy.
5. Click the Time of use tab (the rightmost tab).
6. In the Time of use dropdown, select the plan: Night/day. If the plan has blocks defined, the price fields for each block appear below the dropdown. See section 2. Manager Role - Creating a Time of Use Plan for information related to creation of time of use plan
7. Click Preview to open a visual overview of the weekly schedule. This confirms the correct TOU plan is selected.

8. Close the preview. In the Time block rows, enter the price for each block:
   • Night: 0.08 EUR/kWh
   • day: 0.17 EUR/kWh

9. Click Save. The price list is created and appears in the overview with Source Type: Time of use.

3.3 SPOT market price plan

A SPOT market plan uses the real-time wholesale electricity market price (published one day ahead) as the energy price. The supplier adds a fixed fee on top of the market price. Reduxi retrieves the market prices automatically.

1. Click Create new.
2. Enter the Name: Dynamic pricing model.
3. Select Country: Austria.
4. Select Supplier Energy Buy
5. Click the SPOT Market tab (the middle tab). The Price field is replaced by a Supplier Fee field.
6. Enter the Supplier Fee: 0.01000 EUR/kWh. This is the fixed cost added by the supplier on top of the real-time market price.
7. Additionally one can add other fees or bonuses that are added on top of the first one. For example, one can add a constant fee plus VAT or any other relative fee. 
8. Bonus is also possible to set, since in some countries, the prosumers gets a subsidy for PV production.
9. Click Save. The price list is created and appears in the overview with Source Type: Spot market and the Spot Market Fee value.

The three newly created price lists are now available for assignment to end-user locations.

4. Assigning a Pricing Plan to an End User

Once the TOU plans and predefined price lists have been created, they can be easily assigned to individual customer locations. This step can be done by the end-user directly, or also by their manager (aggregator).

Each location has a Utility Rate Plan page where all four price components are configured.

4.1 Navigating to the Utility Rate Plan

1. From the main navigation, find and open the customer's location. The location dashboard shows real-time power flows (Grid, Solar, EV charger, Battery storage, etc.).
2. In the lower-left sidebar, click Manage Location.
3. From the Manage Location submenu, click Utility Rate Plan. The pricing configuration page opens.

The page is divided into three sections:

• Basic info - displays the country, region, and currency inherited from the location settings. This must be defined before configuring a pricing plan.
• Utility - configures the supplier-side prices: Supplier energy buy and Supplier energy sell.
• Grid - configures the DSO-side prices: Distributor energy price and Distributor power price.

For each component, you can either Define custom (enter prices directly) or Select a predefined price list (as defined in section 3. Manager Role - Creating Predefined Price Lists). Toggle the switch to choose the custom or predefined mode.

In case a Time of use plan or Predefined price list that you as an end-user cannot find, please reach out to your manager/installer.

4.2 Configuring Utility prices

Supplier energy buy — the price the customer pays for electricity purchased from the grid.

1. Under Supplier energy buy, toggle the switch to Select price list.
2. Click the dropdown that appears and select the desired price list. In this example: Dynamic pricing model (SPOT market).
3. After selecting Dynamic pricing model, the form shows the predefined Pricing model and Supplier Fee (0.01000 EUR/kWh + VAT of 22%) that will be added to the market price. The source type tabs (Fixed / SPOT Market / Time of use) indicate that SPOT Market is in use.

Supplier energy sell — the price received for electricity exported to the grid.

4. Under Supplier energy sell, toggle to Define custom if you want to enter a price directly, or Select price list to use a predefined list.
5. In this example, a custom fixed sell price is defined: enter 0.02 EUR in the Price field.

4.3 Configuring Network prices

Distributor energy price — the per-kWh network tariff paid to the DSO.

1. Under Distributor energy price, toggle to Select price list.
2. Select the applicable network tariff from the dropdown or create a custom. In this example custom TOU plan is used.

Distributor power price — the per-kW peak-demand charge from the DSO.

3. Under Distributor power price, toggle to Define custom.
4. Select the Fixed tab and enter the price per kW. In this example: 0 EUR (no capacity charge applies).
5. Click Save to store all pricing settings for the location.

4.4 Viewing the pricing breakdown chart

After saving, the page shows a 24-hour pricing breakdown chart immediately below the configuration form. The chart covers the selected date and is navigable using the left and right arrows.

The pricing breakdown chart. Each bar represents a 15-minute interval. Hovering over a bar shows the exact cost components: Energy (green), Fee (blue), Network (purple), and Total (line) over 24 hours, and a Sale of electricity chart below

The chart shows two sections:

• Purchase of electricity — the total cost per kWh broken down into Network fee (purple), Fee/markup (blue), and Energy (green). The line shows the total.
• Sale of electricity — the revenue per kWh for energy exported to the grid. Note, for sale of electricity no network fee is charged

This chart provides an immediate visual confirmation that the pricing is correctly configured and allows comparison of prices across different hours of the day. The optimisation engine uses these prices to schedule controllable loads (EV charging, HVAC, battery) at the lowest-cost time slots.