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Library of news and information
We blog on a number of topics that we file in one of four categories. In Tariff News we highlight major updates and trends in electricity costs. Our observations and perspectives on new energy go into Industry. Genability updates are filed under Company and we also regularly blog about our Products.
Tariff News
California Residential Rate Changes - January 2020
Southern California Edison (SCE), Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) all released new tariff rates on January 1, 2020 improving the economics of residential solar for all three utilities.
By John Tucker
Products
Genability Solar Incentives Data now Generally Available
Genability Switch customers no longer need to maintain their own database of residential solar incentives. As of October 15, 2019 Genability’s Solar Incentives API has graduated from Beta to V1 and is now available under general release...
By John Tucker
Tariff News
Impact of SCE's New TOU-D Tariff on Solar Savings
On March 1, 2019 Southern California Edison (SCE) will close its current default post-solar tariff (TOU-D-A-NEM2) and replace it with a new default post-solar tariff (TOU-D-4-9PM-NEM2). This tariff change will dramatically impact solar savings in SCE as...
By John Tucker
Products
Savings Analysis Upgrade - Non-Bypassable Minimums
Genability has just upgraded both our Savings Analysis API and our Calculate API to better support Non-Bypassable Charges (NBCs). What are NBCs you ask? Well that’s how the California utilities refer to the customer’s annual NBCs that...
By John Tucker
Tariff News
New California Proposed Tariffs
In 2019, both Pacific Gas & Electric (PGE) and Southern California Edison (SCE) will introduce new Time-of-Use (TOU) periods for commercial tariffs. Both utilities are moving highly-priced peak hours later in the day, from mid-afternoon to 4-9...
By John Tucker
Products
Introducing Proposed Tariffs
Our Proposed Tariffs feature allows you to use our complete set of tools to calculate the costs and savings of tariffs that are not yet published and live.
By John Tucker
Products
Genability Adds Support for PVWatts Version 6
We’ve added support for Version 6 of NREL’s PVWatts API, used to estimate the hourly production of a customer’s solar PV system.
By Ruben Garcia
Products
Explorer : our latest product, for energy professionals everywhere
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our latest product, Genability Explorer, a web-application for Energy Professionals.
By Jason Riley
Tariff News
New Solar Incentives in Illinois, Net Metering Ends for Duke Energy South Carolina
The roller coaster for solar in the U.S. (call it a Solar Coaster?) keeps rolling this summer. The state of Illinois has finalized the credit values for its Adjustable Block Program, which provides solar owners with an...
By John Tucker
Tariff News
Massachusetts SMART Incentives Now Available
Later this year, Massachusetts will close out it’s SREC program replacing it with the new Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) incentives. While there are still a few details left to be finalized, Genability is able to model the proposed SMART incentives...
By John Tucker
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