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
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
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
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
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our latest product, Genability Explorer, a web-application for Energy Professionals.
By Jason Riley
Do you have a potential solar customer’s 12 months of bills or their annual bill amount for electricity? If so, we can now estimate energy usage from that information!
By Jenny Trinh
A quick rundown of the latest and greatest updates on GDN, our developer website.
By Charity Vargas
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added Dutch residential utility rates to our database! Our list of covered countries now includes the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, South Korea, UK, France and the Netherlands.
By Ruben Garcia
If you haven’t visited our developer website in a while, you will be pleased to see we have completed some major improvements.
By Charity Vargas
We’re pleased to announce that Genability has added French residential utility rates to our database! Our list of covered countries now includes the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, South Korea, UK and France.
By Ruben Garcia
Over the last 6 months or so we have put quite a bit of work into improving the documentation on our Genability Developer Network (GDN) site. This reflects some of the improvements and additions to our suite...
By Jenny Trinh
Many companies, including some utilities, have attempted to build utility rate engines. While most have ultimately failed or abandoned development due to the complex challenges involved, others cut scope and developed solutions for narrow use-cases. Signal is...
By Tarpan Dixit
Genability is pleased to announce our latest product, Signal. Signal is our first product purely for Utilities and Retail Electric Providers (REPs). Signal empowers these providers with the ability to better understand and present electricity costs and...
By Jason Riley
Over the past few weeks we’ve introduced Switch API upgrades including Dash, a web-app to view and troubleshoot savings analyses, and Savings Analysis Watch, which automatically reviews Savings Analysis results for atypical results.
By Jenny Trinh
Around 60,000 proposals for rooftop solar are expected to be generated per week in 2016. In the competitive landscape of distributed energy generation and storage, how can companies reasonably monitor the integrity of these proposals?
By Ruben Garcia
Switch Dash is a visual tool we developed to complement your origination platform and help guarantee that you are generating high quality proposals. This self service web-app takes the power of the Switch APIs and makes them...
By Justin Lee
Genability Switch makes it easy to accurately forecast savings and avoided cost, even in markets with increasing regulatory and tariff complexity. With Switch V4, we’ve implemented multiple upgrades to ensure your proposals always reflect accurate solar savings....
By Tarpan Dixit
We are proud to announce a series of exciting new upgrades to our flagship product, Switch. Switch is the market leading solution for providing residential solar customers with the most accurate savings forecasts.
By Tarpan Dixit
We’ve significantly upgraded the way homeowners’ electricity usage is baselined prior to going solar. Now it’s possible to accurately model savings and avoided cost for all customers including those on time of use tariffs with as few...
By Kevin Timms
We are proud to announce a major upgrade to Switch, our flagship product designed specifically for solar origination.
By Tarpan Dixit
How popular is solar PV in your area and how much are people saving? How much does solar cost? What if you live in a San Francisco apartment or a mobile home in Sonoma, versus a typical...
By Ruben Garcia
We’ve been busy the last few months with product upgrades, growing the team, as well as adding several new residential solar Switch customers. Genability now works with 7 of the top 10 residential solar providers in the US....
By Eric Danziger
Over the last few weeks we’ve been making a lot of updates to our developer site. We’ve touched every page of the documentation, added new sections and updated some code. Read on to find out more.
By Scott Harris
To ensure you receive timely notification of issues, outages and status of the Genability API and web applications, we are instituting a new support notification process. We promise you the following:
By Jason Riley
Genability has expanded its tariff coverage to our neighbors up north! We now have Canadian residential and commercial utilities, tariffs, riders and territories available in our Switch and Conduct products.
By Eric Danziger
Genability has added forecasted seasonal rates to our Solar Savings calculations. Not to be confused with utility rate inflation (we’ve got some upgrades coming in this area soon), forecasted seasonal rates allow you to use the most...
By John Tucker
Solar is an attractive proposition in Hawaii, with great solar irradiance and high utility rates. 1 out of 4 homes in Hawaii has gone solar. A home in Honolulu that uses 1,000 kWh/month and installs a 5...
By John Tucker
We are proud to release our Solar Savings product, Genability Switch into the universe. Genability Switch helps residential and commercial solar providers deliver precise Solar Avoided Cost Calculations to their customers. This includes tools to analyze leads,...
By Eric Danziger
We’ve released a new set of typical electricity usage profile data called Typicals. If you’re working with customers to calculate energy savings and you “typically” ask for their usage data, Genability Typicals will be of some use...
By Eric Danziger
When we first started collecting electricity rates we went after the utilities and states with the most customers (California, New York, Florida, etc.). To date, Genability has collected electricity rates that represent 88% of Residential customers and...
By John Tucker
The U.S. Virgin Islands is a great place to vacation. What’s not so great are the island’s electricity rates.
By San Prabhu
We are nine months into our SunShot Project and have some exciting customer driven enhancements to share. We recently rolled out several new features that make evaluating solar deals even easier. We’ve made it simple to get...
By John Tucker
Do your customers know what electricity rate plan they are on (most utilities have more than one)? Most homes and businesses don’t. If they don’t know, you aren’t going to know either. Their actual rate plan is one...
By John Tucker
We’ve added a new argument to practically every one of our API endpoints that allows your energy app developers more control over the data that’s returned to you. By optionally passing in the parameter “fields” with a...
By Michael Ihle
System sizing is one of the many skills that comprise the “Art of Solar”. Experienced solar developers have a feel for what is the best system size for a customer and are able to find a configuration...
By John Tucker
Now you can determine exactly what solar production will be worth to your customer within Explorer. Using the account functionality you can put an exact price on the utility costs solar production will replace, the Value of...
By John Tucker
Genability has launched a new Explorer Help Center. Get answers to FAQs, report a problem and access blog posts highlighting new Explorer features. The site also includes helpful resources like how-to guides and video tutorials on how...
By Eric Danziger
You may have noticed that when running a calculation on a tariff in a deregulated market, there’s a new option available:
By John Tucker
How often have you received a utility bill and the billing period matched exactly with the beginning and end of the month? Never, right?
By John Tucker
Many utility companies charge different rates based on the geographic location of the customer. This is particularly true in CA, NY and MA where utilities such as California’s PG&E and Southern California Edison implement territory based pricing....
By Emile Baizel
We’ve been very busy over the past few weeks, and not just with the holidays. We’ve been busy processing the deluge of new year rate updates including Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas...
By John Tucker
The first thing most of our customers do when logging into Genability Explorer for the first time is try to reproduce a utility bill. They take either their bill from home or one their customer’s bills and...
By John Tucker
Since we launched Genability at the end of last year, we’ve been often asked for a quick start to understanding electricity tariffs. With that in mind,we put together a simple glossary of electricity tariff features, complete with...
By John Tucker
One question we hear a lot is whether our pricing data is intended to be cached or served up real time. The short answer is that we design our APIs to be accessed real time. One of...
By Emile Baizel
The most frequent question we get is “What is the easiest way to calculate the cost of a tariff?”
By Emile Baizel
As part of our continued effort to provide the most accurate electricity pricing data on the market, we now support holiday pricing. Most utilities that have time-of-use or time-of-day rates treat weekdays differently than weekends and treat...
By Emile Baizel
We’ve just added Territories to our data API’s which give you accurate geo-location based pricing data. Give us a zip code and we’ll give you: a list of utilities that provide service in that zip code a...
By Emile Baizel
It is with great pleasure we announce the roll-out of our first APIs into public beta. At the same time we are also launching the Genability Developer Network (GDN).
By Jason Riley
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