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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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Genability's Sunshot Project

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We recently announced that Genability was selected as a SunShot Awardee by the U.S. Department of Energy. But what are we building?

“What’s my utility bill with solar?”

Sunshot Summit Slide

It’s a deceptively simple question which actually takes Solar Providers (Developers, Installers, Financiers) a large amount of time and pain (and money) to figure out. It’s called solar Avoided Cost, or the amount of energy that you avoid buying from your electric utility because it’s provided by your PV system.  Put another way, Avoided Cost is how much your  electricity bill is reduced by when you get power from a solar system.

Solar Avoided Cost

To accurately calculate solar Avoided Cost you need to know a number of things: 1) how much energy the solar system generates (production), 2) how much energy you use (consumption), 3) available utility rates (called tariffs), and 4) all the rules dictating the value of your solar energy production. At its core, our project aims to build the fastest, most accurate, and most comprehensive Avoided Cost engine. It will automatically calculate how much is saved, figure out the optimal utility tariff to be on, fully support net metering, and inform the solar system sizing process, all in milliseconds. The engine will be flexible so it can be embedded in or integrated with existing solar websites, apps, and tools.

Precise Tariffs

Genability already has the most comprehensive national database of utility tariffs.  The Avoided Cost engine will leverage this data, but it will be augmented with the intelligence to sift through varying levels of solar production, utility tariffs and elections, and net metering rules and constraints, to arrive at the configuration that yields the most value for the energy produced by a solar system.

Energy Usage

How much power you consume and when can really change your energy costs (especially if you are a business), so solar system sizing and tariff choice should be specifically driven by this information.  However, obtaining granular usage data quickly is a challenge for Solar Providers. We’re here to help. Where usage data is available (like GreenButton data from your utility), we’ll make it easy to access. Where it isn’t, we’ll introduce sophisticated techniques to generate a dynamic usage profile based on what we know about the potential system host. We’ll also determine typical usage and electricity costs for the whole country down to the zip code level. This is of particular importance during the marketing and sales process, as it provides instant national visibility to Solar Providers of where PV makes economic sense.

Solar System Generation

While our Avoided Cost tools will not perform site specific solar assessments or PV system sizing, we’ll make it easy to integrate with existing tools such as NREL’s PVWatts and SAM, and other best in class commercial tools.  Importing, exporting, and manipulating solar production curves from external systems will be simple.

The Goal

Sunshot Summit Poster

SunShot’s goal is to reduce the cost of installed solar PV to $1 per Watt at scale, by 2020. Our goal is to put a sizable dent in the soft costs, or non-hardware costs, of solar; up to 30% of the costs incurred in the sales process to be precise.  To do this we’ll streamline the solar sales process, optimize every deal, and increase sales conversions.

Product development will begin immediately and is scheduled to be completed by June 2013.  If you are a solar provider, installer or financier and are interested in providing valuable input to our development process or want to be kept up to date on our progress, please email us at sunshot@genability.com.

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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...

Genability's Partner Program Wants You!

By Eric Danziger | May 24, 2012

Today, we are thrilled to announce our new Partner Program, which offers a number of ways partner organizations can work with us.

The Cleanweb Boulder Hackathon 2012

By Eric Danziger | May 17, 2012

San Francisco, New York, Boston and now Boulder. This weekend, Cleanweb Hackathon takes over Boulder! Genability is thrilled to sponsor another Cleanweb event and we are joined by Tendril, SendGrid, SimpleEnergy, Softlayer and VisionRidge Partners.