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Pricing Engine

The cost stack of a UK energy tariff

Tariff Structure

A deterministic, bottom-up builder for UK energy tariffs — every cost row traced to an official published source, across all 14 GB DNO regions, for domestic and SME (PC03, PC04) profiles.

Pricing Engine is EnergyCode's flagship product. It builds the full deterministic cost stack of a UK energy tariff: wholesale energy, network charges (DUoS, TNUoS, BSUoS), policy levies (Capacity Market, CfD, CCL, Nuclear RAB, AAHEDC), metering, operating costs, margin and VAT — assembled bottom-up rather than estimated top-down.

What "bottom-up" means

Every cost row in Pricing Engine traces back to an official published source. Wholesale comes from primary market data; network charges from the DNO charging statements; levies from the regulators and operators that publish them. No aggregator estimates, no opaque magic numbers.

Four views, one workspace

  • Overview — all 14 DNO regions side by side, annual £ per region
  • Breakdown — the full cost cascade per region (wholesale → network → policy → metering → ops → margin → VAT)
  • Profile Class — comparison across domestic (PC01, PC02 Economy 7, PC02 Economy 10) and SME (PC03, PC04) profiles, with the remaining SME classes (PC05–08) next
  • Unit rate — the full tariff sheet output (p/kWh, p/day, annual £)

Six levers

Contract length, VAT toggle, Annual vs Contract view, Custom kWh override, an Other Costs drawer for bespoke rows, and an Assumptions drawer where the commercial layer lives (margin, hedging, shape risk uplift, imbalance) — every lever is editable and the impact is live.

Who uses it

Energy consultancies modelling for clients, suppliers (and aspiring suppliers) building the pricing layer of their stack, TPIs validating quotes at scale, and analysts who need to see what is actually in a UK energy tariff across all 14 DNO regions.

Example

Pricing Engine lets a consultancy build a PC01 domestic or PC04 SME tariff for the Eastern region in seconds — wholesale through to VAT, every row sourced.

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