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
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 here at Genability think a lot about electricity tariffs, their design and their impact. It’s why we built our latest product Signal, and our company for that matter. We fundamentally believe that the power of price...
By Tarpan Dixit
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 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
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
We are proud to announce a major upgrade to Switch, our flagship product designed specifically for solar origination.
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
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
When smart meters began emerging, many customers viewed them as costly automated meter-readers that made life easier only for the utility companies, possessed no real benefit and compelled little customer interaction. Beneficial or not, in a GTM...
By Eric Danziger
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
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
Yesterday, I passed a MUNI bus stop here in San Francisco and something caught my eye. I’ve seen interactive bus stops before so seeing a couple of kids playing with the screen didn’t stop me to take...
By Matthew Fong
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
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
We’re going to be one of the judges and prize-givers at this weekends HAPI Hack Weekend in our own San Francisco. There will be 100+ developers slinging code all weekend using our and other companies’ APIs. If...
By Jason Riley
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
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
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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