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Notice on SMUD Tariff R-TOD-SSR, March - July 2022

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
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California Net Energy Metering 3.0 (NEM3)

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 rates, Genability has publishing a set of Tariffs with the latest proposed rate structures for customers to use. Once details are available, the finalized tariffs and rates will be published for all to use. In this blog post we track updates as the policies and rate changes firm up. We recommend checking back hear from time to time to get the lastest.
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Whats new with Genability

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.
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California Residential Electricity Rate Changes - January 2020

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.
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Solar Incentives Data

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 for Switch customers that wish to license it. We’ve also built a new user interface within Switch’s Dash web application to view this data along with your savings analyses.
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Review of Southern California Edison's New Post Solar Electricity Rates and its Impact on Savings

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 the Time of Use (TOU) On-Peak hours move from 2-8 PM under TOU-D-A-NEM2 to 4-9 PM under TOU-D-4-9PM-NEM2. More importantly TOU-D-4-9PM-NEM2 introduces a Super Off-Peak period in the Winter from 8 AM to 4 PM, when the majority of solar production occurs.
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Savings Analysis API Support for Non-bypassable Charges

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 cannot be offset by Net Energy Metering (NEM) Credits under NEM 2.0. These NBCs behave as a second minimum charge calculation that’s performed during the customer’s annual true-up.
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Review of California's Proposed Commercial Time of Use Electricity Tariffs

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 PM. If you are selling solar, storage and/or energy efficiency in California, you want to be sure to calculate savings using these new tariffs. Thanks to Genability’s new Proposed Tariffs product for enterprise customers, now you can!
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Proposed Tariffs included in Genability database

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.
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Genability Adds Support for PVWatts Version 6

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.
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Explorer Web App for Energy Professionals

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our latest product, Genability Explorer, a web-application for Energy Professionals.
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Solar Incentives in Illinois, Net Metering Ends for Duke Energy South Carolina

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 upfront payment for 15 years of estimated solar production.  Meanwhile, in South Carolina the state legislature failed to increase the net metering cap and Duke Energy has met its 2% limit. Starting on August 1, 2018 full net metering closes for Duke Energy SC customers and will be replaced by the Purchased Power Rider. First the good news for solar developers:
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Solar Incentives in Massachusetts

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 for our customers and has made the new incentives available via the Incentives API.
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Duke Energy North Carolina Solar Incentives

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.
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Genability Open for Business for Commercial Energy Customers

We have an exciting announcement. Genability is now open for business to any and all new energy companies servicing commercial and industrial customers. Today we have lifted all restrictions that might have prevented you from working with us in the past.
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Hawaiian Smart Export and Customer Grid Supply Solar Programs

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 that has not been available in Hawaii since the Customer Grid Supply programs closed in 2017. Genability has just made these two programs available for Hawaiian Electric Co (HECO), Hawaiian Electric Light Co (HELCO) and Maui Electric Co (MECO) for use in your solar proposals.
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Estimating Energy Usage from Customer’s Bill Amount

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!
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New York Public Service Commission Guidelines on Presenting Solar Savings

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 New York so that our solar customers can comply with these new requirements without any change to their API integration.  First, let’s review the new savings requirement:
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Run Down of Genability Developer Website Updates

A quick rundown of the latest and greatest updates on GDN, our developer website.
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The Methodology Behind our Monthly Residential Rates Newsletter

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 each month, we have sent out a summary of those changes in our Monthly Residential Rate newsletter to help our customers better understand and anticipate these changes.
About Us

Clean, Abundant Energy for Everyone

We make the costs and savings of New Energy transparent to all

A personal, distributed energy revolution has begun. It promises to provide clean, abundant and affordable power to all. Our goal at Genability is to help make this promise a reality. We want to make sure that every New Energy transaction has the power of price built into it. When installing solar, scheduling a battery, charging an electric car, powering a factory or data center, or chosing a utility plan. Transparent, accurate costs and savings; in dollars or pesos not kw's or kWh's.

We provide Data and APIs

We are a data and an API company at our core. We maintain the most accurate and complete tariff database of North Amercian tariffs in the industry. And our flexible, ultra-fast rate engine can compute electricity costs and savings at any scale for a wide variety of use-cases. Our customers integrate our data and API resources into their own systems.

New Energy means New Choices


How it's Made : We identify when rooftop and community solar is right for homes and businesses by providing accurate savings forecasts. And when on site storage adds to its economic benefits. Installers are sizing and pricing their offerings to win; growing a new industry.

What it Powers : Transportation is becoming electric. This will significantly lower the planet's carbon footprint and save individuals significant money. Genability speeds adoption with software that smartly schedules charging, calculates station costs, and designs grid-friendly rate plans.

When & Where it's Used : The more intermittent renewable power we make and use, the more flexibility the grid needs. Genability signals smart batteries and connected appliances, moving load, balancing supply and demand, and ultimately preventing grid defection at a cost we can all afford.

Our Customers are the New Energy Companies

Our data and APIs are integrated deep into the companies making New Energy a reality. They are the biggest names in solar, storage, electric transportation, smart home and connected business. They are leading Utilities and Retail Electric Providers (REPs) who are embracing and enabling our new energy future. They embed our data and compute APIs into their own technology products, processes and solutions. In doing so they identify the best opportunities, present savings beautifully, and keep their new energy customers happy.

Our People

We are a small team that prides itself on delivering quality products and service that out perform companies of any size. Our employees are technology, data, and energy experts who are passionate about helping our customers deliver the new energy future. Also part of our family is a team of freelance data analysts that help us collect and maintain our data (we call them Team Tariff). Together we have a signular focus on being the most accurate and highest coverage data provider, and making sure that our customer are using this resource to its full potential.

We’re always looking for great people to join us. Click here for a list of current openings.



Leadership Team


Jason Riley

Jason Riley

Founder & CEO

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Jason is the founder, CEO and board chairman of Genability where he works to help New Energy Companies build energy cost savings into their products and services. He is involved in all aspects of the company's activities, from marketing and sales, financials and governance, through engineering and IT operations as well as its data management. Jason has over 19 years of executive experience developing energy technologies. Jason was born in England and educated in Scotland.


John Tucker

John Tucker

VP Data & Operations

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John is responsible for Genability’s product development, QA and testing and energy market research. John is Genability’s energy price guru and works with our current customers to incorporate their feedback into our offerings. Previously, John served in Product Management roles at Andiamo Systems, a brand-monitoring service, and Yaga, a micro-payment service company. John holds a degree in International Studies from the University of Dayton.


Our Board


Marc Rizzo

Marc Rizzo

Chief Financial Officer, Enel X

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Marc is the Chief Financial Officer of Enel X North America, and before that was the CFO of EnerNOC. Marc's brings both his financial skills as well as his background in software and energy to our board of directors.


Sean Leaver

Sean Leaver

VP Corporate Development & Strategy

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As Vice President of Corporate Development and strategy for Enel X, Sean is responsible for driving their mergers & acquisitions, and strategic corporate restructurings. He is a member of their executive committee responsible for leading acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic investments, and partnerships. Sean brings a wealth of useful experience to our board.


Jason Riley

Jason Riley

Board chair

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Jason chairs the board of Genability, and is its founder and CEO. Jason has over 19 years of senior leadership experience developing energy technologies. Prior to Genability, Jason co-founded and was Chairman of Entessa, a provider of energy logistics enterprise software, which he sold to Energy Solutions International. Jason served an investor and advisor to ESI until it was acquired by OakTree Capital's GFI Energy Division.


Eric Danziger

Eric Danziger

Genability Co-founder & Alumni

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Eric helped co-found Genability, and oversaw the Company's commercial aspects until 2019. He focused on strategy, business development and finance, while also managing Genability’s partner relationships, fundraising efforts, corporate development and SunShot project. Eric is currently Chief Revenue Officer at Innowatts. Prior to joining Genability, Eric was an investment banker with GulfStar Group, a middle market sell-side M&A firm, and JPMorgan Chase. Eric received his BBA in Finance and MBA from the University of Texas.

Our History

Jason started Genability at the end of 2010. Below are some of the major milestones along the way. Today Genability remains a private, independent company that is primarily owned by it's founders and employees. While we do not publish our financials, we are profitable and growing.

Over the years, a long list of individuals and organizations have provided expertise, hard work, funding or other important resources of one kind or another. Many are no longer financers, owners or involved day-to-day in Genability. However, we continue to be grateful to them and all our wonderful employee alumni and angels. Thank-you all!



2010

October 2010 Genability is founded

Working out of a small executive office in downtown San Francisco, we were off to the races. By year end we had five employees and the scafolding our of database.


2011

Data collection & first product launches

We moved to 221 Main, and by April 2011 our tariff database had 75% of the residential tariffs in the US. We were building out our data maintainance, and also building the rate engine API (which was launch Jan 2012).


2012

Department of Energy SunShot Awardee

We participated in the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative, which provided funding to startups focused on lowering the cost of solar in the U.S. (June 2012 Blog).


2013

Design partnership with Greenstart

Greenstart was a design studio (sadly no longer active) helping energy startups with product design. By June of 2013 we'd collected 90% of all tariffs in the US.


2014

Strategic investment from EnerNOC

EnerNOC, the leader in demand response and provider of energy intelligence software for utility and commercial customers, became an investor and customer of Genability (read our blog and EnerNOC's Press Release).

We also released the first version of Genability Switch® at the start of the year, as well as a big upgrade to it in November. Canadian tariffs were rolled out in June.


2015

Genability Switch® gains traction in Solar

7 of the top 10 US residential solar providers had adopted Genability Switch® by March 2015, and by September we reached our millionth proposal. September and October also saw some significant upgrades, with a new version and the rollout of "Inteligent Baselining" respectfully.

Towards the end of the year, NREL evaluated Genability’s tariff calculation accuracy against 1,500 California utility bills and found they were nearly identical in mean and variance, with an average difference of 2 cents.


2016

Growth capital from WindSail Capital Group

WindSail Capital Group, a leading provider of growth capital to companies advancing energy innovation and sustainability, provided us capital in March 2016 to continue our growth (Press Release). This was fully repayed by the company in 2018.

Signal, our utility API product, was launched in August 2016 following on just after Switch's 4th version in April.


2017

Genability Signal® launched for PG&E

Our home-town (and banner) utility customer, Pacific Gas and Electric, launched a whole new digital engagement website, powered by Oracle Opower, FirstFuel and Genability.

In Q1 2017 we hit 6 million lifetime solar proposals. Our developer website, GDN received a significant upgrade, making it significantly faster to get up and running and easier to utilize the full power of our APIs. As did our offices; we moved from 221 Main to 455 Market Street.


2018

Exclusivity ends; open for business in every segment

In June the exclusivity that EnerNOC has with us ended, allowing us to sell our products to companies involved in C&I energy inteligence. This proves to be a good area of growth into 2019. We're also pay off our Windsail investment, and the company moves into solid and consistent profitability.


2019

New Self Service option for a new audience

July we launched a self service plan allowing a whole new set of users and businesses an affordable way to access our tariffs and calcs. Our Genability Signal® Data Explorer™ web application gives energy professionals access to our tools without having to write code. Plus we include our core APIs for those integration projects that don't yet require enterprise level agreements or volumes.

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