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Rate Coverage & The Long Tail
When we first started collecting electricity rates we went after the utilities and states with the most customers (California, New York, Florida, etc.). To date, Genability has collected electricity rates that represent 88% of Residential customers and 86% of Commercial customers in the U.S. Chances are if you’re looking for a utility rate for [...]
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Value of Solar in the U.S. Virgin Islands
The U.S. Virgin Islands is a great place to vacation. What’s not so great are the island’s electricity rates. Rates in this popular vacation spot are among the highest in the U.S. The Islands rely primarily on imported fossil fuels to power their energy needs and given their remote location this sometimes leads to shortages [...]
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PVSyst Integration & Account Tracking Features Added
We are nine months into our SunShot Project and have some exciting customer driven enhancements to share. We recently rolled out several new features that make evaluating solar deals even easier. We’ve made it simple to get high quality PVSyst solar production data into Explorer accounts and added new account attributes that help you find [...]
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Account Upgrades and Utility Statistics in Explorer
Genability’s added a slew of new features to Genability Explorer based on your feedback. Nearly every screen has been upgraded to make finding data easier and our accounts better. Here are some of the highlights: One Step Account Set Up You can now enter your customer’s address and customer class (Residential/General) when creating your [...]
What’s My Customer’s Likely Rate Plan?
Do your customers know what electricity rate plan they are on (most utilities have more than one)? Most homes and businesses don’t. If they don’t know, you aren’t going to know either. Their actual rate plan is one of the key factors in their unique energy cost (along with how much they use and sometimes when [...]
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Popular Solar “Genability Tasks”
We recently launched Genability Tasks, an easy way to get help with energy costs and usage for prospecting, sales and marketing, customer service and support and more. We do quite a bit of work in the solar space, so a month or so into Genability Tasks being publicly available, we wanted to highlight a few solar examples. [...]
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Control API Response with new Fields parameter
We’ve added a new argument to practically every one of our API endpoints that allows you energy app developers more control over the data that’s returned to you. By optionally passing in the parameter “fields” with a value of “min” (for minimum) or ‘ext’ (for extended) your response payload will contain only the data properties [...]
The Science of Optimal Solar System Size
System sizing is one of the many skills that comprise the “Art of Solar”. Experienced solar developers have a feel for what is the best system size for a customer and are able to find a configuration that works for the customers specific economics. That’s a requirement when it’s hard to run avoided cost calculations [...]
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HOW TO: Pass Contracted Supplier Rates to the Calculate API
In 16 states, electricity customers can choose a electric supplier that is not their local utility. Genability makes it easy to integrate these contracted rates into your calculations. If you are using our API, here’s how. To run a calculation with an overridden supplier rate you simply pass in a ‘RateInput’. This will swap out any rate [...]
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Genability Presents at ASES Solar2013