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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A brand new year means new rates! We’ve been spending the time around the holidays working hard to get all the rate changes into our database in time for the January 1, 2012 effective date. Over 1000...
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
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
The most frequent question we get is “What is the easiest way to calculate the cost of a tariff?”
By Emile Baizel
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
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
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
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
Electricity tariffs are the contract between a utility and its customers. In the past selecting your electricity tariff was like choosing the color of your Model T, there was no choice. That’s changing as Utility Commissions push...
By John Tucker
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
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
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
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
You could not describe a more perfect San Francisco spring day than the one we’re having today. Bright and sunny, in the mid-80s – it’s perfect for Opening Day. After 6 weeks of practice in the desert,...
By John Tucker
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
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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