Using Rate Data in Your Application

6/1/2011

This section provides instructions for using Microsoft URS rate data in your application.

To query the specific electricity prices that define a customer plan

  1. Determine the customer’s postal code.

  2. Obtain a list of the utilities for the customer’s postal code by querying the UtilityByPostalCodes collection while filtering by PostalCode.

  3. Present the list of utilities to the customer so they can select their specific utility.

  4. Obtain a list of the customer plans offered by the utility by querying the CustomerPlans resource while filtering by the Id of the selected utility.

  5. Present the list of customer plans to the customer so they can select their plan.

  6. Obtain the pricing data for that customer plan by querying the Prices resource while filtering by the Id of the selected customer plan.

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Concepts

Using Data from Microsoft URS