Welcome to the spring of 2021! With the new season Genability has a range of new positions open for both full time employees and freelancers. This includes openings in software engineering, data operations, support, and sales.
By Jason Riley
Like many companies, the start of a new year is a time when Genability’s goals and objectives are updated and plans are set in motion. Here’s a summary of what we are up to in 2021.
By Jason Riley
We have an exciting announcement. Genability is now open for business to any and all new energy companies servicing commercial and industrial customers. Today we have lifted all restrictions that might have prevented you from working with us in...
By Jason Riley
To mark our 7th year anniversary, we’re excited to be writing you from our new office digs! We just moved down the street and can now be found at 455 Market Street.
By Eric Danziger
Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord was a big gut punch for us at Genability. Since then, we’ve been thinking about what we can do to double our own efforts and impact the...
By Jason Riley
Congratulations to Allie, Eric and their new baby girl, Mille.
By Jason Riley
We don’t like to blow our own trumpet at Genability too much. But on lucky days something happens that just stops in your tracks, and makes you feel immensely proud of the team you get to work with every day....
By Jason Riley
It’s been awhile since we last blogged a roundup of what’s going on with Switch (April 2016 to be precise). A lot has happened with Switch and the solar and new energy market more generally since then....
By Charity Vargas
For the 5th consecutive year Genability attended the Smart Energy Summit conference in Austin, TX. And it’s not just the BBQ that keeps bringing us back! SES focuses on home energy management, consumer technology, IOT and utilities....
By Eric Danziger
DistribuTech, the annual exhibition and conference for all things electric power transmission and distribution was held in San Diego earlier this month. Genability attended for the 1st time this year after the launch of our newest product...
By Eric Danziger
Last week the Engineering team headed out of the office to Sonoma for a team offsite. Their destination was the Kendall-Jackson Wine Garden and Estate, owned by Jackson Family Wines (JFW), to take stock of this year’s...
By Charity Vargas
In March 2016, Genability migrated its application servers and databases into Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). We initiated this change anticipating that it would not only provide hard security guarantees, but reduce our infrastructure costs without impacting...
By Patrick Sheehan
Today we are pleased to announce we have closed a $3 million investment from WindSail Capital. WindSail helps companies that advance energy innovation, with a particular focus on energy sustainability (http://www.windsailcapital.com). They provide debt to companies with...
By Jason Riley
In a recent evaluation by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Genability’s savings calculations matched NREL’s results within 0.5%. NREL evaluated Genability’s tariff calculations against 1,500 California utility bills and performed statistical tests to compare the similarity...
By Tarpan Dixit
Genability takes API performance very seriously. We’re committed to continuously improving the performance of our software products as we grow in both functionality and customer adoption. We spent a lot of time this summer enhancing the stability...
By Martin Baker
It’s a bitter-sweet day. Today is Laylee’s last day at Genability. If you’ve ever emailed, called or visited us, you’ve likely met Laylee. She’s been our office manager, team cheerleader and Jane-Of-All-Trades for the last three years....
By Jason Riley
Speaking this week at The White House Energy Datapalooza, Genability’s CEO Jason Riley announced the launch of the Company’s “Open Solar Savings” initiative. In partnership with the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, Genability will be publishing and...
By Eric Danziger
At the end of January, Genability was honored at the eighth annual San Francisco Green Business Awards ceremony, in recognition of our official status as a San Francisco Green Business.
By Eric Danziger
Today I’m pleased to announce our newest customer, but more importantly our newest partner and investor, EnerNOC (NASDAQ: ENOC). The team and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
By Jason Riley
Genability’s CEO, Jason Riley, recently spoke on a panel at the Greentech Media US Solar Market Insights Conference on “The Future of Net Energy Metering and Rate Design”.
By Eric Danziger
Earlier this year Genability partnered with Greenstart to add their design expertise to our brand development. We’re extremely excited with the stuff they’ve developed so far and we think you will be too. Unfortunately, you’ll have to...
By Eric Danziger
In 2013 we used solar savings to predict the NCAA march madness tournament. It didn’t go so well!
By Eric Danziger
Two years and 100 sprints later… Genability has accomplished a lot including capturing electricity rate data for the entire country, developing a rate engine to calculate costs, building out a suite of energy savings and connected energy...
By Eric Danziger
We are pleased to announce that Genability is partnering with Greenstart to bring their expertise in design thinking to our team. They will be an integral part of all product design and development moving forward. Greenstart is...
By Jason Riley
Most people consider “13” to be an unlucky number. Genability has big things in store for 2013 and we’re already off to a great start.
By Eric Danziger
Some of the most exciting and innovative cleantech software companies gathered Monday in Washington, D.C for the first ever “Energy Datapalooza”. The event was hosted by the Obama Administration, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu and U.S. CTO Todd Park...
By Eric Danziger
We recently announced that Genability was selected as a SunShot Awardee by the U.S. Department of Energy. But what are we building?
By Ruben Garcia
We are pleased to announce that Genability has been selected as a SunShot Awardee by the U.S. Department of Energy. Genability has been awarded $500,000 to develop Web, API and Data tools to instantly and accurately calculate...
By Ruben Garcia
Today, we are thrilled to announce our new Partner Program, which offers a number of ways partner organizations can work with us.
By Eric Danziger
San Francisco, New York, Boston and now Boulder. This weekend, Cleanweb Hackathon takes over Boulder! Genability is thrilled to sponsor another Cleanweb event and we are joined by Tendril, SendGrid, SimpleEnergy, Softlayer and VisionRidge Partners.
By Eric Danziger
This summer, our customer, Lowe’s, the home improvement and appliance retailer, will be entering into the smart home market with the introduction of an affordable, cloud-based home management system, Iris. “Lowe’s has been watching the smart home...
By Eric Danziger
Getting Genability news just got easier. Now you can sign up to receive monthly updates from the Genability Newsletter for news about what we are doing and where we are going, Explorer product updates and Blog Spotlights....
By John Tucker
On the heels of U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra’s challenge to utility companies to launch a “Green Button” that would ensure consumers have timely access to their own energy data in consumer-friendly and computer-friendly formats, the North American...
By Eric Danziger
The newly launched Green Button Initiative asked utility companies to ensure that consumers have timely access to their own energy data in consumer-friendly and computer-friendly formats. Now, California’s three major utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California...
By Eric Danziger
Today, California’s three big utilities – Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric – formally launched their Green Buttons. Not to be out done, we are announcing our support of the...
By John Tucker
Genability is excited to announce that Lowe’s is using Genability’s technology in Iris, its new cloud-based smart home solution. Iris is an affordable system that gives homeowners the ability to control and interact with their home from...
By Eric Danziger
Our own developers Matt Fong and Michael Ihle came up with the winning hack, a project they call TACO (True Annual Cost of Ownership). Essentially it works like this: Simply install a Google Chrome extension on your...
By Robb Miller
Genability is all about elasticity. We’re focused on how to make the grid more elastic and more efficient. But our elastic mantra goes beyond our product lines and extends to our workflow as well.
By San Prabhu
We’re going to be one of the judges and prize-givers at this weekends HAPI Hack Weekend in our own San Francisco. There will be 100+ developers slinging code all weekend using our and other companies’ APIs. If...
By Jason Riley
This past weekend we were thrilled to be part of TokBox’s HAPI hacker’s weekend. It was Genability’s first time getting in front of developers and we were very impressed with the creative ideas people came up with...
By Emile Baizel
Earth day is held in April every year. Here’s what we’ve done over the last few.
By Eric Danziger
Last week we moved into our new office. As a company that strives to be environmentally sensitive in everything we do we tried to pick products for our new office from companies that align with that goal....
By Charity Vargas
Here’s a round-up of the sites we can be followed, friend’d, tweet’d, ping’d and generally connected to on…
By Jason Riley
It feels good to be writing the first blog post about Genability. So lets get down to brass tacks and give a bit of background.
By Jason Riley
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