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
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our latest product, Genability Explorer, a web-application for Energy Professionals.
By Jason Riley
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
The month of January is when a majority of utilities release their updated rate plans for the new year. It has been a busy time for the Genability data team as we reviewed and updated over ten thousand rates...
By San Prabhu
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
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
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
Today and tomorrow are the first Peak-Day Pricing (PDP) events of 2012 for Pacific Gas & Electric. That means that for commercial customers throughout Northern California electricity is about to get very expensive.
By Eric Danziger
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has done a re-org to their residential rate structure. In an effort to show a more accurate cost of generation and encourage conservation, PG&E’s new rate structure converts generation and distribution...
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
It’s hardly news to anyone on the East Coast that it’s hot today, but did you know it’s affecting what you pay for electricity? If you’re on the Voluntary Time-of-Day pricing in Manhattan today you’re paying a...
By John Tucker
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
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
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
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
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
The New York City area has some of the highest electricity pricing in the country and for a consumer to start saving on his electricity bill, he first needs to know and understand his usage and how...
By San Prabhu
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
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
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
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
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
In parts of New England, wholesale spot prices for electricity hit $560 per megawatt hour on friday, 10 times annual average prices. The PJM Interconnection announced that it set a new record for Peak Power Use by...
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
Earth day is held in April every year. Here’s what we’ve done over the last few.
By Eric Danziger
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