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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.
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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.

People News

A new role for John Tucker

First we have some bitter-sweet news. John Tucker, who is well known to many of our customers and has been the heart and soul of our Data Operation since our founding ten years ago, is moving on to new adventures 2021. He has stepped back from his full time management role as VP of Data and Operations and moving forward will provide expertise, focused on growing our team skills and responding to our customers needs. From February John will move down to 3 days per week, giving him a long overdue break and time to ponder what comes next. I’m personally very grateful for his years of hard work and thoughtful dedication to making the transition as smooth as possible. Reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns.

New faces at Genability

Last summer new members Britney and Alexandra came on board to help us with support and sales, including a sizable upgrade to our support processes and artifacts. You may have interacted with them via support tickets, sales inquiries or our recurring monthly webinars. They have both done such as great job that we are rewarding them with more stuff to do! We’re expanding our support team and will continue to refine that and our inside sales operation in 2021.

Welcome back Matthew

A final note on the people front. We are pleased to say hello again to Matthew Gerring. Matthew was a full time member of our software engineering team way back in the day (2018 to be precise). Then when travel and quest called, Matthew answered. Lucky for us, since then he has contributed as a freelancer from time to time. Matthew is now back full time, wearing a number of hats, including helping with engineering our new Team Tariff application, and also within our new Sales and Success Engineering team (more on both later in this post).

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Plans for 2021

The company has some pretty ambitious plans for this year, but they can actually be summarized into three simple objectives:

  1. Add new countries
  2. Further Improve the timeliness of tariff data updates
  3. Further Improve the transparency and accuracy of these updates

With the acceleration of the new energy transition, particulary with the electrification of transport, we see an opportunity in increasing the geographic coverage of our tariff data. Our longer term goal is to add every electricity market in the world in the next four years. To continue to make progress on this, in 2021 we want to add at least four, but just as importantly to also increase our velocity. We need to hire and train additional people and to provide the whole team with an upgraded data toolkit. The requirements, design and construction of our next generation technology has been a big focus for us for the last year. We are now reaching an exciting milestone in the construction of this with the impending release of a new internal data management website. We are calling this our Team Tariff App, and Version 1 will be in the hands of our data team later this quarter.

Our plans don’t end with V1 though. We are very excited with our concrete plans for V2 and V3. These build on the foundation of our current proven processes, and add improvements on top that come from our 10 years of tariff data manangement experience combined with lots of design thinking exercises. We will write more about these as they get closer to launch, and we plan on demonstrating what we have built to our customers, so please stay tuned.

Hiring

All of this requires the help of smart people. In 2021 we will be hiring in pretty much every department. This includes openings for full time employees as well as various shorter and longer duration freelance projects. Please see our current hiring blog post as well as our careers page to see the latest, including how to get in touch or refer someone our way.

New Sales and Success Engineering Team

Finally, as I mentioned above, we’ve created a new team, dedicated to helping our customers succeed in their use cases. This will be technical in nature and has the goal of being a proactive complement to our current “engineering” assistance we provide duing sales and support. Matthew (see above) will be joinging Ruben Garcia in this team. Look out for them on webinars, blog posts, outbound communications, sales and customer technical meetings and elsewhere.

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