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You can choose to calculate usage reduction from categorized usage or total usage. All energy efficiency equipment can only apply to one type of reduction
- Total usage is a % reduction from the overall usage, applied evenly over each month and each hour.
- Categorized usage uses government data on typical household loads to intelligently apply a % reduction to the portion of the loan load attributed to that item type.
- If you switch the way reduction is calculated, make sure to change the Reduction Amount % below - it should be smaller for total usage and larger for categorized usage.
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