It’s holiday season! That means homes in communities across the America are decorated with colorful displays of cheer. The bright lights and robotic Santas come at a cost though, many homeowners will experience unexpected increases in their...
By Tarpan Dixit
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages 90% of the electricity market in Texas, recently wrapped up its summer season. Reminiscent of record grid loads in August 2015, the ISO saw some dramatic moments this...
By Kevin Timms
We here at Genability think a lot about electricity tariffs, their design and their impact. It’s why we built our latest product Signal, and our company for that matter. We fundamentally believe that the power of price...
By Tarpan Dixit
In this blog post I’d like to do a thought experiment on the potential benefits should the merger result in Tesla selling a unified product that includes an electric vehicle and an electric generation system (car, solar,...
By Jason Riley
Update: On June 23, 2016 the CPUC revised an earlier decision and determined that “imports and exports to the grid shall be netted within the metered interval and non-bypassable charges should only be charged on the net...
By Tarpan Dixit
Seven Solar Installations in a Northern California Neighborhood, March 29, 2016. Photo by Charity Vargas
By Charity Vargas
Energy storage is the next frontier in the New Energy Economy, and we’re proud to work with industry leaders such as Tesla, Stem, Advanced Microgrid Systems, and NextEra Energy.
By Tarpan Dixit
Net energy metering (NEM) has been a critical driver in the growth of residential solar over the past decade. There is an ongoing debate between utility companies and proponents of solar energy as to whether net metering...
By Tarpan Dixit
The Clean Power Plan (CPP), finalized last week, is the most significant regulation of greenhouse gases in U.S. history. Since passing the Clean Air Act in 1963, the federal government has played a critical role regulating air...
By Tarpan Dixit
Across the country, summer can bring sun, fun, vacations, and…higher electricity bills.
By Kevin Timms
What did the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) recently decide, and what does that suggest about the longer term California energy prices and their impact on the rapidly growing solar market?
By Justin Lee
On June 2nd 2014, the EPA revealed a game-changing regulatory proposal that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 30%, from a 2005 baseline.
By Gabe Goffman
This week at the SunShot Grand Challenge Summit in Anaheim, the SunShot Initiative hosted its first ever Hackathon. The event featured 6 teams putting together apps with data provided by Geostellar, NREL, Sun Number, Solar Nexus and...
By Eric Danziger
Last week, Mark Ferron, former executive with Deutsche Bank and Salomon Brothers stepped down from his post with the California Public Utility Commission to focus on his battle with prostate cancer. As an epilogue to his almost...
By Eric Danziger
Late last week, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing federal agencies to derive at least 20% of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. That’s double the current level! The President included some necessary steps and...
By Eric Danziger
The Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative has just released the next funding opportunity, SunShot 9. SunShot 9 will provide funding (non-dilutive capital) to early-stage companies who can decrease the soft costs of solar. The DOE is looking for...
By Eric Danziger
Over the past few years utilities have been striving to bring the outdated infrastructure of the grid into the big data world we live in today where consumer data can be analyzed and turned into insight. Their...
By Eric Danziger
Genability is a big supporter of Green Button and has been actively involved in promoting and supporting the initiative. This week, Genability participated in the 2nd Green Button Developer Day, held at the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo...
By Eric Danziger
Rate design is becoming increasingly important. With some solar incentives and tax credits (ITC) coming to an end in the near future, solar-friendly utility tariffs (or rate schedules) are key to the economic viability of solar. Genability...
By Eric Danziger
This week in Baltimore, America’s longest running solar conference begins! In its 42nd year, the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) presents SOLAR2013.
By Eric Danziger
It may surprise many of you to know that over 70% of all homes in the U.S. are on some kind of variable electricity rate plan. For the vast majority of homes, the rate they pay for...
By Eric Danziger
This week in Las Vegas is the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Companies every year wait for this annual event to highlight their newest products, features and gadgets. Some previous products announced at CES include the...
By Eric Danziger
In one of the most exciting post seasons ever, the San Francisco Giants won a record tying sixth elimination game of the post season, coming back from a 3-1 deficit. Monday night’s win against the St. Louis...
By Eric Danziger
Lowe’s, the home improvement and appliance retailer, announced today their cloud-based home energy management system, Iris, is now available to purchase online and will be offered in 500 stores by the end of August.
By Eric Danziger
While every company loves their customers, Genability has the great opportunity to work with companies who share our goal of making cheap, clean and abundant power a reality for all of us. They are rethinking how homes...
By Eric Danziger
A number of people have asked about who else is working to reduce soft costs. Here’s document the DOE SunShot team put together with information about all the recent SunShot Incubator awardee’s and their projects. We are...
By Eric Danziger
Since the inaugural launch in San Francisco in September 2011, Cleanweb has gone national. Cleanweb hackathons are designed to gather innovative programmers, designers and entrepreneurs to bring attention to and create technologies that solve environmental issues in...
By Eric Danziger
This past weekend, Cleanweb Hackathon hosted its third event. The first two, San Francisco and New York, were both huge successes so there were big expectations for Boston. The event included 16 teams with close to 80 hackers....
By Eric Danziger
Texas is the only U.S. state that used to be its own country and it’s the only state that isn’t served by either the Eastern or Western Interconnection. It was the first state to deregulate its electricity suppliers...
By John Tucker
Researchers at MIT are hard at work on the problem of solar efficiency, and lowering the cost per kilowatt on solar panels. A few weeks ago, senior researcher Jeffrey Grossman presented his findings on a new type...
By Carson Riley
Get ready to change the way you think about your electricity bill! The Department of Energy (DOE) just announced the details for its Apps for Energy competition. The DOE is challenging developers to use Green Button data...
By Eric Danziger
24 hours after the Green Button initiative was announced in January, Genability Explorer and APIs supported the Green Button XML format, and with good reason. The two requirements for precise electricity pricing are correct tariff data and...
By Eric Danziger
While net metering is nothing new in the world of energy, for the past 20 years, more and more investor and state owned utilities have been expanding these policies to make it easier for consumer to become...
By Carson Riley
In 2012 we were thrilled to be a sponsor of the Cleanweb hackathon in New York. The event was the weekend of 1/21 - 1/22 and, among others, was organized by Spring Ventures and Dynamo following on...
By Emile Baizel
In 2011 there was a battle brewing among electronics retailers (Best Buy, Home Depot, and others), Telecommunications Companies (Verizon, AT&T & others) and Cable Companies (Comcast, others). The battle is for the control of your home, or...
By Robb Miller
While there has been much focus on the Solyndra bankruptcy in solar news lately, the U.S. project pipeline is seeing massive growth in photovoltaic project development due to large cuts over the summer in solar module prices....
By Eric Danziger
Yesterday, I passed a MUNI bus stop here in San Francisco and something caught my eye. I’ve seen interactive bus stops before so seeing a couple of kids playing with the screen didn’t stop me to take...
By Matthew Fong
Sunday, September 11, concluded the inaugural Cleanweb Hackathon. Fourteen teams of developers and engineers gathered together with the goal of integrating information technology and sustainable business through the use of diverse datasets and APIs. The CleanWeb Hackathon...
By Eric Danziger
Texas is more than a month into a brutal heatwave that is straining the electrical grid and setting temperature records, electricity usage records, and power pricing records. It was 105 degrees F in Austin and 109 degrees...
By Robb Miller
If you want to take control of your power you need get access to your own real-time energy consumption data. (Preferably on your smartphone or at least through a web-service). Don’t worry we’ll walk you through the...
By Robb Miller
Rob Day recently released an interesting article on GreenTechMedia entitled “The Rise of Information-Based Cleantech.” His main point is that over the past decade most ‘Cleantech VCs’ poured tons of cash into commodity-oriented cleantech plays that really didn’t fit...
By Eric Danziger
If you catch one of the PG&E SmartMeter (tm) ads on TV, you might get excited by what they promise. The ads are slickly produced, with customers describing how cool it is to ‘See Your Power,’ receive...
By Robb Miller
If the average customer doesn’t understand how electricity prices are structured, how are they going to save money on their bill? The recent Deloitte reSources 2011 Study indicates that only 38% of people claim they understand the...
By Carson Riley
The Genability Application Programming Interface (API) is just one of many energy-focused APIs that are available to developers. We encourage creative mash-ups of our electricity pricing data with other energy apps and datasets. We think that the...
By Robb Miller
An energy device is a great step towards achieving some real home energy savings. My wife and I offered to split our savings with our kids and we’ve turned them into energy efficiency entrepreneurs!
By Robb Miller
Facebook users share over 25 billion pieces of content, and view 500 billion pages, every month. (One of Facebook’s clusters has over 2250 machines and 23,000 cores, compressing 80-90 TB of data every day). Similarly, Linkedin crunches...
By Robb Miller
The ability to drill-down and see what energy we are using, and what it is costing us, will be very significant. And will definitely be one of the more powerful mobile apps, in terms of saving money....
By Robb Miller
Every time I see solar-panels littered on rooftops, I think “Now there’s someone who is choosing to make a positive impact on the world around them.”
By Robb Miller
In an effort to combat fuel prices and urban pollution, this morning San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee signed off on the Zero Fuel, Zero Emission (ZFZE) transportation act. Starting next year, the city will begin collecting canine...
By Emile Baizel
Energy Vampires account for 10 percent of residential electricity use. Solutions abound: get energy bars for all your gadgets, and use them! Try out The Energy Detective, which measures how much energy is being used in the...
By Robb Miller
Joe Energy User: “So I know I should be better about turning off the lights and using less electricity, but what’s that really going to save me? A few dollars here and there?”
By Emile Baizel
If you’ve never spent any time thinking about electricity rates, you’re not alone. For the past century electricity consumers have been supplied with cheap, reliable electricity on the unspoken condition that we don’t notice that our local...
By John Tucker
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