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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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Net Energy Metering Rules Change Across the US, We have it Covered.

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Over the past few months, the reform of Net Metering rules has impacted several utilities that are in active solar markets.  Genability has been tracking these changes closely and has modeled the new NEM rules for your use with the Switch API.

Arizona Public Service - New Rates Effective 8/19/2017

As of Saturday August 19, 2017, Arizona Public Service (APS) has announced completely new rate structures for all of their residential and commercial customers.   Genability had previously modeled these rates as proposed rates, and now they are fully available without the “proposed” label.  

Under APS’s new Net Metering regime, new residential solar customers are required to switch to 1 of 4 residential tariffs:

  1. R-2. This tariff includes a $8.40/kW on-peak demand charge(3PM to 8PM).  

  2. R-3.  This tariff has both kWh and kW charges with time of use.  The summer on-peak period (3PM to 8PM) has a $17.44 /kW demand charge, with Winter On-Peak at $12.24/kW.  

  3. TOU-E. This tariff has 3 TOU periods, including a super-off peak from 10 AM to 3 PM.  It has no demand charge, but does retain the per kW of installed solar fixed charge from E-12.

  4. R-TECH.  This tariff requires that a customer have either 2 primary technologies (Solar, Battery or EV) or 1 primary technology and 2 secondary technologies (Variable Speed Pool Pump, Variable HVAC Pump, Smart Thermostat, Automated Load Control, Smart Water Heating).  It features a $20.25/kW On-Peak demand charge, a tiered Off-Peak demand charge ($0 up to 5 kW, $6.50 above 5 kW) and low per kWh rates (5.75¢/kWh Summer On-Peak, 4.75¢/kWh all other hours).

Just as important are the new rules for power exported to the grid. All four of the tariffs above compensate excess generation through the Resource Comparison Proxy at a rate of 12.9¢/kWh with exports resolved in real time.  Genability will set the solarPvEligible flags on all the new residential tariffs after the 9/1/2017 deadline, so your APS customers automatically switch to a solar-eligible tariff post-solar.

San Diego Gas & Electric - TOU Tariff Switch Required This Fall, New TOU Periods

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) was the first of the California investor-owned utilities to close NEM 1.0.  As such, it was grandfathered by the California PUC from requiring solar customers to switch to a Time of Use tariff post-solar.  SDG&E has already filed the new tariff and time of use structure for DR-TOU with the California PUC and Genability has made the new proposed TOU tariff available via our Switch API.  The new on-peak time of use period will be from 4PM to 9PM, Monday through Friday all year round.   Once the tariff goes into effect later this year, we will set the solarPvEligible flags to force a switch to the time of use tariff in SDG&E.

Based on an analysis of typical SDG&E customers with an 80% solar offset, we see the Avoided Cost of Power (ACP) in SDG&E  dropping from 26.8¢ to 19.8¢ with the required move to DR-TOU.

NV Energy South & North - More Tariff Changes Coming?

In June of this year, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed bill AB-405 allowing solar customers to receive a credit for all power exported to the grid at 95% of the retail rate.  Based upon this new legislation, Genability made the proposed tariff available in our system under the tariff code “RS-NEM-95PCT”.  The proposed tariff replaces the fixed solar export credit from the current “RS-NEM” tariff and replaces it with a solar export credit that is 95% of the retail rate.

However it appears that all is not yet settled for NV Energy’s solar customers.  In NV Energy’s filing with the Public Utility Commission of Nevada to implement AB-405, the utility includes many strategies to minimize the export credit provided to solar customers.  The proposal includes 2 demand charges, higher fixed charges, a 4-period TOU definition and higher per kWh rates overall.  It remains to be seen how the Public Utility Commission of Nevada will rule on this filing, but you can be sure we’ll be following it closely.

Rocky Mountain Power: Utah - New Rules Under Negotiation

Another NEM battle is occurring in next door Utah where Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) has proposed higher fixed charges, demand charges, and a wholesale credit for energy exported to the grid.  After last week’s meeting, the Utah Public Service Commission has asked RMP to sit down with solar advocates to work out a compromise.

Genability has not yet created a proposed tariff for Rocky Mountain Power in Utah as there are too many important details still outstanding before the utility commission.  As soon as those details are finalized, Genability will create a proposed tariff so our customers can use it in the Switch API.

If you have a question about a specific current or proposed rate, please let us know at platformsupport@arcadia.com.  Chances are we already support that rate or working on supporting it.  We’re always happy to answer your questions.  

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