Monthly Archives: February 2012

Smart Grid 2.0, So What Does That Mean?

When smart meters began emerging, many customers viewed them as costly automated meter-readers that made life easier only for the utility companies, possessed no real benefit and compelled little customer interaction.  Beneficial or not, in a GTM webinar, eMeter estimated the installation of 150 million smart meters globally to replace the out-dated mechanical meters- it [...]
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New View into Real-time Rate Changes

It’s not easy keeping up with every retail electric rate in the U.S., especially when some rates are updated as often as every hour.  It’s even more challenging to find away to communicate that data in an easy, comprehensible way.  That’s why we’re very proud of our new rate summary in Genability Explorer. With today’s [...]
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Genability Newsletter

Getting Genability news just got easier.  Now you can sign up to receive monthly updates from the Genability Newsletter for news about what we are doing and where we are going, Explorer product updates and Blog Spotlights. If  you’re a development, subscribe to the Genability Developer Network Newsletters for API products updates, helpful hints and [...]
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Run a calculation in your browser!

In this post, we’re going to walk through how to run a calculation right from your browser.  It’s easy, kind of fun and very powerful!   To run a calculation from your browser, you need to use the Storage APIs and create an account.  This will allow you to persist usage data and other properties.  If [...]
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APIs and Explorer Add Billing Period Support

How often have you received a utility bill and the billing period matched exactly with the beginning and end of the month?  Never, right? This is why we’ve introduced a billing period flag to the calculate tab in Explorer and to the calculate method in the APIs.  By checking the Billing Period checkbox (Explorer) or [...]
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API Update: New Way to Group Calculation Results

Yesterday you could group calculation details by rate, rate group or charge type.  In our newest release, we’ve added a new flag that allows you receive charges grouped by time period (Month or Year) .  Interested, here’s a quick sample of how you’d call this new group by function: api.genability.com/rest/beta/calculate/512?appId=xxx&appKey=yyy&fromDateTime=2011-12-01T00:00:00.0-0500&toDateTime=2012-01-01T00:00:00.0-0500&groupBy=MONTH We expect that this new [...]
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Genability Explorer Graduates from Beta

We are proud to announce that as of today, Genability Explorer has moved out of Beta into general release. We’d like to thank all of our Alpha and Beta customers for their time and valuable feedback.  Thanks to your efforts, you’ve enabled us to get to general release more quickly than we’d anticipated. Bear with [...]
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Cleanweb Hack NYC in Review

Genability recently participated in the 2nd Cleanweb Hackathon. The event was held in NYC so a few members of our team headed east to participate.  The first ever Cleanweb hack was held this past summer in San Francisco, in which Genability’s own TEAM TACO took first prize.  Genability was thrilled to be a sponsor again and [...]
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Tariff Territories Simplified

Many utility companies charge different rates based on the geographic location of the customer.  This is particularly true in CA, NY and MA where utilities such as California’s PG&E and SoCal Edison implement territory based pricing.  Up until now, with our APIs it has been a multi step process to get the rates for a [...]
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