Electricity cost definition - Export to the *.eso file

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In EnergyPlus, you can use the UtilityCost:Tariff object and set the RealTimePricingSchedule field to your $/kWh schedule, as described here. You could add this tariff via a Measure. You could probably modify the tariff_selection_generic measure.rb file.

For the second part, you could add assign a copy of your real-time tariff to each of these Meters (look in the *.mdd file that comes out of the simulation for a list of Meters). Another option would be to export the output variables and the $/kWh schedule to .csv and then multiply after running the simulation.

Caveat (pointed out by @Chris Jones below): If your tariff has peak demand charges, for part 2, you'd need to report out the demand and the consumption and then split up the charges correctly.

One issue would arise if the electric utility has demand and energy block charges. In this case would would have to report the whole building demand and energy charge at each hour then prorate that amount to each end use.

This page describes how to add tariffs for different fuels. I'll let someone else address timeseries output of the costs. Not sure how you would want to handle monty fees in this approach.