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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 Developer API Documentation Updates

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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 of APIs, including better ways to calculate actual solar savings and to use our latest calculation endpoints. It also includes content improvements across the board, including our Tutorials (which help you understand major use cases), our How-To section (which dives into details on specific topics), and the API References (denoting all endpoints and their requests and responses).

Here’s a round-up of what we’ve been working on.

New Actual Savings Tutorial

Switch now includes the ability to calculate actual savings for homeowners with solar. Actual Savings can be an add-on to your estimated solar savings tools and can be integrated into self-service platforms, such as customer websites and mobile applications, or integrated into customer support tools. The Actual Savings Tutorial on our Genability Developer Network walks you through four steps to calculate actual savings using the homeowner’s electricity usage and solar production data. We calculate the savings using actual rates and you can display this information wherever you need.

Improvements to our How-To Section

We have added more topics to our How-To section. The topics include forecasting savings with storage, selecting the right utility and tariff for a customer, and incorporating taxes in a calculation.

Include Storage When Forecasting Savings

This How-To goes over how to quote Solar PV systems with behind-the-meter energy storage for our Switch customers. Including energy storage in your quotes involves additional steps to the current process of forecasting savings with solar. In this How-To, we show you how to align the charge and discharge schedule of the battery with the homeowner’s future electricity usage and estimated solar production data. We also discuss different processes you will take depending on whether the utility requires dual register meters post-solar.

Selecting the Right Utility and Tariff

It is important that the correct utility and tariff are used in cost calculations and savings analyses as costs can vary considerably between tariffs and utilities. This How-To explains how to select the correct utility and tariff for a given customer. It denotes the similarities and differences that are a result of whether you are using Accounts for Account Cost Calculations and Savings Analyses, or you are running On-Demand Cost Calculations.

Taxes

This How-To walks you through the various ways you can incorporate tax rates into our calculations. This includes how to pass in the tax rates in a request for our Signal API and how to set the tax rates on Accounts.

New Calculation Endpoints

We have built some next generation calculation endpoints which focus on accuracy and faster performance in order to facilitate our new Signal product and more powerful “what-if” calculations.

Account Cost Calculation

We have added the Account Cost Calculation endpoint as the latest addition to our Account API.

The Account Cost Calculation endpoint is useful for our Switch customers to calculate the forecasted savings and actual savings with solar. This endpoint calculates costs for a given amount of usage over a specified period of time. This can be used to calculate an electricity bill or to calculate a “what-if” scenario for solar.

Our Intelligent Baselining (IB) feature is available on our Account Cost Calculation endpoint. IB moves historical usage to a time in the future and estimates annual usage data from at least one month of usage. The IB feature in the Account Cost Calculation endpoint is useful to forecast savings.

Signal API

We have also added an On-demand Cost Calculation endpoint and an On-demand Mass Calculation endpoint as a part of Signal, our rate engine product. The On-demand Cost Calculation endpoint runs costs for a single case such as a historical bill, a month-to-date cost forecast, or a “what-if” scenario for solar. The On-demand Mass Calculation endpoint can run up to 20 scenarios at once for a given customer’s usage and rate inputs. This endpoint is ideal for tariff rate plan comparisons and optimizations.

Here are some new features with our On-demand endpoints:

  • You can add your own, custom time of use definition to the Genability database to use in a calculation
  • You can run a calculation with a single, specified version of a given tariff

Using Our Latest APIs

Visit our Genability Developer Network for more information on the Actual Savings Tutorial, How-Tos, Account Cost Calculation, and Signal API.

If you are interested in our Switch or Signal products, please reach out to sales team today!

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