Duration units

Hi all, i have been through many other duration units removed error posts and i cant find an answer to my problem, maybe my formula is too simole... all other posts have involved IF and SUMIF.
mine is simply a basic formula.
I have a price in A1, another price in A2
I have a kWh number in C1
A date in D1, D2, D3 etc....
the number of days in B1  (this is set to Duration - 1d)
for B1 i used the calulation =D2-D1
the formula i have an issue with is:
=SUM((B1*$A$1)+(C1*$A$2))/100
i have 2 other claulations following the same line  but all have the little blue warning triangle and the errer: Durations were removed...
Ive tried changing the format of the cels from duration to Number but it wont stick, always reverts back to duration.
Iam very new to Numbers having recenly moved from Excel & Windows
Thanks in advance

Hi Ian,
Thanks for your reply
Ive been working on the sheet for a while now and have the completed one, however the errors are still present, it appears to calculate somewhat correctly. However your sugestions were not sucesfull.
The formulas are fine in Excel, infact u was using a much more complex one in Excel but was trying to simplifly it all down to work out the bugs from crossing over from Excel to Numbers
(sorry... yes Mavericks / numbers 3)
If i could get the Days columns to stay as plain numbers rather than always turning Automatically to 'Duration' formatting than there would be no issue at all but i cant figure that out.
Roll on Mac Office 2014 (hopefully)
I was looking for a way to attach the actual document but there doesnt seam to be the ability.
ive attached grabs of the sheet and formulas

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