Sacramento Municipal Utility District (“SMUD”) introduced a new Solar and Storage tariff for solar customers (Rate Schedule “R-TOD-SSR”), which took effect on March 1, 2022. SMUD published documentation regarding the revised tariff structure on their website: https://www.smud.org/-/media/Documents/Rate-Information/Rates/01_SSR.ashx...
By Curtis Snyder
California is updating its Net Energy Metering policies in 2022, commonly referred to as NEM3.0. Genability customers can rely on Genability providing full support for them. Ahead of the publication of the final NEM 3 tariffs and...
By John Tucker
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
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
The roller coaster for solar in the U.S. (call it a Solar Coaster?) keeps rolling this summer. The state of Illinois has finalized the credit values for its Adjustable Block Program, which provides solar owners with an...
By John Tucker
Later this year, Massachusetts will close out it’s SREC program replacing it with the new Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) incentives. While there are still a few details left to be finalized, Genability is able to model the proposed SMART incentives...
By John Tucker
At 9 AM this morning (July 9, 2018), Duke Energy North Carolina started accepting incentive applications for their Solar Rebate program and Genability has made the new incentive available via our Incentives API.
By John Tucker
Starting on 2/20/2018, the three Hawaiian investor-owned utilities will offer two new programs for customers with solar: Customer Grid Supply Plus and Smart Export. Both programs offer export credits for power provided to the grid, an option...
By John Tucker
Effective December 1, 2017, solar developers in New York are required by the New York Public Service Commission (NYPSC) to meet precise guidelines (PDF Download) when presenting savings estimates. Genability has reviewed these requirements and we have made some data upgrades for...
By John Tucker
Every month Genability updates thousands of tariffs. These changes can be as small as a simple rate increase or as large as a whole new rate structure. For just over a year now, around the 10th of...
By Trevor Kennard
Over the past few months, the reform of Net Metering rules has impacted several utilities that are in active solar markets. Genability has been tracking these changes closely and has modeled the new NEM rules for your...
By John Tucker
When Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed AB-405 on Friday he removed a great deal of uncertainty surrounding Net Metering in Nevada. Under AB-405, new solar customers in Nevada are guaranteed a net metering credit for the next...
By John Tucker
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
Amendment 1, a proposed Florida State constitutional amendment, was widely publicized as a pro-solar referendum. It was found though, to be legislation that would have made residential roof top solar unviable in Florida.
By Charity Vargas
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
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
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
Seven Solar Installations in a Northern California Neighborhood, March 29, 2016. Photo by Charity Vargas
By Charity Vargas
Update: On May 31, 2016 PG&E closed the residential time-of-use tariff used in this analysis (E-6) for new enrollment and added ETOU-A and ETOU-B as new options for residential customers. Genability Switch was updated on that day to...
By Kevin Timms
The solar industry received great news yesterday when the California Public Utilities Commission approved their proposed decision on NEM 2.0. All major elements of net metering were upheld with no new fixed or demand-based charges. Under NEM...
By John Tucker
In a recent evaluation by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Genability’s savings calculations matched NREL’s results within 0.5%. NREL evaluated Genability’s tariff calculations against 1,500 California utility bills and performed statistical tests to compare the similarity...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Genability’s CEO, Jason Riley, recently spoke on a panel at the Greentech Media US Solar Market Insights Conference on “The Future of Net Energy Metering and Rate Design”.
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
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
Most people consider “13” to be an unlucky number. Genability has big things in store for 2013 and we’re already off to a great start.
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
We recently announced that Genability was selected as a SunShot Awardee by the U.S. Department of Energy. But what are we building?
By Ruben Garcia
We are pleased to announce that Genability has been selected as a SunShot Awardee by the U.S. Department of Energy. Genability has been awarded $500,000 to develop Web, API and Data tools to instantly and accurately calculate...
By Ruben Garcia
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
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
The city of Palo Alto took a big step towards clean energy production by introducing a solar Feed-in tariff, called the Palo Alto CLEAN (Clean Local Energy Accessible Now). Feed-in Tariffs are programs though which utilities buy renewable...
By San Prabhu
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
John Farrell at Renewable Energy World reported last month that Distributed Solar is nearing ‘Grid Parity’. His main point is that installed Solar Photovoltaics are very close to being cost competitive with grid power in numerous areas...
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
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
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