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Category Archives: Residential
Uploading Solar Production into Explorer
Earlier this month Genability released the new Value of Solar feature set including the ability to upload solar production data independent of usage. Now the Cost Analysis tool subtracts solar production from usage and delivers you the Value of Solar. Uploading Solar Production data is as simple as uploading usage. Go to the profile [...]
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Value of Solar
Now you can determine exactly what solar production will be worth to your customer within Explorer. Using the account functionality you can put an exact price on the utility costs solar production will replace, the Value of Solar. Calculate the Value of Solar – On the Solar Savings line in Cost Analysis,we show the [...]
Also posted in Commercial and Industrial, Explorer, News, SunShot Tagged Explorer, Solar Calculator, Value of Solar 5 Comments
Hot times in NYC today
It’s hardly news to anyone on the East Coast that it’s hot today, but did you know it’s affecting what you pay for electricity? If you’re on the Voluntary Time-of-Day pricing in Manhattan today you’re paying a whopping 72.5¢ per kWh! Sounds like a good day to shut down everything in the house and [...]
MIT’s “Cubic Solar Energy”
Researchers at MIT are hard at work on the problem of solar efficiency, and lowering the cost per kilowatt on solar panels. A few weeks ago, senior researcher Jeffrey Grossman presented his findings on a new type of solar architecture published in the journal of Energy and Environmental Science, which he claims can “open new [...]
Also posted in Commercial and Industrial, Consumers, Info, News, Whats My Power Tagged cost per kilowatt, MIT, Solar 1 Comment
Working with Contracted Rates in Deregulated Markets
You may have noticed that when running a calculation on a tariff in a deregulated market, there’s a new option available: Now you can enter your contracted rate or discount whenever competitive electric supply is available! Either enter your contracted rate as cents per kWh (e.g. 7.1¢) or expressed as a discount (e.g. enter 95 [...]
Also posted in API, Commercial and Industrial, Explorer, News Tagged API, Contracted Rates, deregulated market, Energy, Explorer, kWh, rates, supply cost, tariff, Utility 1 Comment
The “Green Button” Benefits!
The New York City area has some of the highest electricity pricing in the country and for a consumer to start saving on his electricity bill, he first needs to know and understand his usage and how the available rate plans impact it. NYC is served by Consolidated Edison, the delivery company for the residents in [...]
Also posted in API, Explorer, News Tagged Cost Analysis, Cost Calculator, Explorer, Green Button 2 Comments
New Year, New Rates – The Evolution of Electricity Pricing
A brand new year means new rates! We’ve been spending the time around the holidays working hard to get all the rate changes into our database in time for the January 1, 2012 effective date. Over 1000 rates have been updated in the past week ensuring that our database is 100% up-to-date. One of the [...]
Also posted in API, Commercial and Industrial, Explorer Tagged electricity policy, Explorer, Rate API, rate monitoring, rates, utiliities 1 Comment
Electricity Tariff Glossary – Residential Tariffs
Since we launched Genability at the end of last year, we’ve been often asked for a quick start to understanding electricity tariffs. With that in mind,we put together a simple glossary of electricity tariff features, complete with links to Genability Explorer for examples (You’ll need to be logged in for the links to work). If [...]
Home Energy Management tools & services
There is a battle brewing among electronics retailers (Best Buy, Home Depot, and others), Telecommunications Companies (Verizon, AT&T & others) and Cable Companies (Comcast, others). The battle is for the control of your home, or rather, helping you navigate the new technologies that will assist you control your home. Best Buy plans to start selling [...]
Also posted in Consumers, News Tagged Best Buy, Cable Companies, Home Energy Management, Rate API, Retailers, Smart Price, Telcos, Verizon Leave a comment
What’s My Customer’s Likely Rate Plan?