API, Developer Guide, GDN, Quick Start Guide, Tutorials
Our Developer Site Gets a Major Update
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
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GDN, Signal, Switch, API, Tutorials, How To
Genability Developer API Documentation Updates
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
Switch, Solar, API, Response Time, Savings Analysis, Dividend, Sunova
Switch, Solar and New Energy Round Up for 2017
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
Amazon, AWS, Security, API
Security and Savings in Amazon VPC
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
Switch, Solar, API, Forecast Savings, Avoided Cost of Power, Salt River Project
Genability Switch Accuracy
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
Solar, API, NEM, Switch, Arizon Public Service, Forecast Savings
When Policy Changes Impact Solar Savings
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
API, GDN, How To, Savings Analysis API
Developer Documentation How-Tos and Java Library
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
API, Explorer, Outage Notification, Support Notification
Getting Notification of Outages
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
Explorer, API, Electricity Rate Database, Canada, Hydro-Quebec, Electricity Rates, Conduct
Canadina Electricity Rates added to our Electricity Rate Database
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
API, Electricity Rates, Commercial Solar, Typical Costs of Power
Typical Electricity Usage Profiles for When You Do not Have Customer Usage Data
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
Electricity Rate Design, Green Tech Media, API, Solar Incentives, Southern California, Whitepaper
Greentech Media Whitepaper - "Solar Beats the Grid, But..."
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
Explorer, Signal, Switch, API, Electricity Rate Engine, Electricity Rate Database, Commercial Electricity Rates, US Electricty Rates
Genablity Extends Electricity Rate Coverage to The Long Tail
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
Explorer, API, Solar, Electricity Rate Engine, Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority
Value of Solar in the U.S. Virgin Islands
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
Smart Energy Summit, Connected Home, Home Energy Management, Parks Associates, API, Smart Price, TOU, Electricity Rates
Variable Electricity Rate Plans for Homes
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
Deregulated Market, Explorer, Rate API, Texas, API, Commercial Solar, Oncor, Centerpoint, AEP North, AEP Central, Electricty Rates, ERCOT, TDSP
Texas Deregulated Energy Market Supported in Genability Explorer and APIs
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
API, Contracted Rates, Deregulated Market, Electricity Rates, Charge Class, Commercial Solar, Explorer, Calculate API
Our Electricity Rate Engine Suports Contracted Rates in Deregulated Markets
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
Explorer, Genability Developer Network, Genability Newsletter, GDN, API
Genability Newsletter
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
Billing Period, Calculator API, Explorer, API, GDN
Our APIs and Explorer Add Billing Period Support
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
Explorer, Territories, API, Developer, PG&E, SCE, Southern California Edison, Electricity Rates
Electricity Tariff Territories Explained
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
API, ESPI, Explorer, Green Button, US CTO, Wattquiz, NAESB
Setting the Standards on Electricity Data Availability
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
Electricity Rates, Explorer, Holiday Pricing, Time of Use, Electricity Rate Engine, Electricity Rate Database, API, Energy New Orleans, Louisville Gas & Electric, Kentucky Utilities, Kenergy, Duke Kentucky, GDN
Time of Use Electricity Rates Over the Holidays
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
Electricity Rates, Electricity Rate Engine, Electricity Rate Database, API, Developers, GDN
Genability API's now in Public Beta
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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