Monthly Archives: June 2011

Working with an Elastic workforce

Genability is all about elasticity.  We’re focused on how to make the grid more elastic and more efficient.  But our elastic mantra goes beyond our product lines and extends to our workflow as well. We are organizing and crunching data that is complex and enormous at the same time and requires increasing domain knowledge.  To [...]
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New Pricing & Plans

Genability is pleased to announce the rollout of our new, lower cost and more flexible pricing plans. This gives our customers more options for low cost, high quality data and tools via simple pricing and no long term commitments. We have a number of different monthly plans to give you choice, flexibility and affordable tariff [...]
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Thank you HAPI hackers

This past weekend we were thrilled to be part of TokBox‘s HAPI hacker’s weekend.  It was Genability’s first time getting in front of developers and we were very impressed with the creative ideas people came up with for using our electricity pricing data.  The winner took home a cool prize of $500 for building a [...]
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A Problem of Understanding

If the average person doesn’t understand how electricity prices are structured, how are they going to save money on their bill? The recent Deloitte reSources 2011 Study indicates that only 38% of people claim they understand the resources offered to them by their electricity provider. Additionally, only 17% believe it would not be difficult for [...]
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The future is awesome!

One thing that I learned from Saul Griffith is that our energy future is awesome! His point is that fear is not a strong motivator. Start talking about the effects of climate change, and you lose half your audience at the outset. Start talking about how awesome our energy future is, and everyone tunes in. [...]
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About Tariffs

Electricity tariffs are the contract between a utility and its customers.  In the past selecting your electricity tariff was like choosing the color of your Model T, there was no choice.  That’s changing as Utility Commissions push the utilities to provide consumers with choices.  In deregulated markets, non-utility electric suppliers are offering an enormous variety [...]
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HAPI Hack Weekend App Ideas

We’re going to be one of the judges and prize-givers at this weekends HAPI Hack Weekend in our own San Francisco. There will be 100+ developers slinging code all weekend using our and other companies’ APIs. If you are coming along, this post is for you! At Genability, our core mission is giving energy consumers [...]
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Mashups: Datasets and APIs

The Genability Application Programming Interface (API) is just one of many energy-focused APIs that are available to developers. We encourage creative mash-ups of our electricity pricing data with other energy apps and datasets. We think that the potential value-add is enormous. For example, check out the slick Wattvision API.  You can see live energy usage data, [...]
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