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
On March 1, 2019 Southern California Edison (SCE) will close its current default post-solar tariff (TOU-D-A-NEM2) and replace it with a new default post-solar tariff (TOU-D-4-9PM-NEM2). This tariff change will dramatically impact solar savings in SCE as...
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
In 2019, both Pacific Gas & Electric (PGE) and Southern California Edison (SCE) will introduce new Time-of-Use (TOU) periods for commercial tariffs. Both utilities are moving highly-priced peak hours later in the day, from mid-afternoon to 4-9...
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
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
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
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
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
A quick rundown of the latest and greatest updates on GDN, our developer website.
By Charity Vargas
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Energy storage is the next frontier in the New Energy Economy, and we’re proud to work with industry leaders such as Tesla, Stem, Advanced Microgrid Systems, and NextEra Energy.
By Tarpan Dixit
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
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
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
Genability takes API performance very seriously. We’re committed to continuously improving the performance of our software products as we grow in both functionality and customer adoption. We spent a lot of time this summer enhancing the stability...
By Martin Baker
We are proud to announce a major upgrade to Switch, our flagship product designed specifically for solar origination.
By Tarpan Dixit
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
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
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
We are pleased to announce that Genability is partnering with Greenstart to bring their expertise in design thinking to our team. They will be an integral part of all product design and development moving forward. Greenstart is...
By Jason Riley
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
In 2012 we were thrilled to be a sponsor of the Cleanweb hackathon in New York. The event was the weekend of 1/21 - 1/22 and, among others, was organized by Spring Ventures and Dynamo following on...
By Emile Baizel
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