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Tag Archives: Solar
World Series San Francisco Giants (Winners on the field & energy efficiency)
In one of the most exciting post seasons ever, the San Francisco Giants won a record tying sixth elimination game of the post season, coming back from a 3-1 deficit. Monday night’s win against the St. Louis Cardinals was the Giants 20th National League pennant win and trip to the World Series. Besides being winners [...]
Posted in News, Whats My Power Also tagged ballparks, Energy Efficient, San Francisco Giants Leave a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Commercial and Industrial, Explorer, Info, News, Residential Also tagged Explorer, Solar Calculator, Usage data, Value of Solar Leave a comment
Genability’s Sunshot Project
We recently announced that Genability was selected as a SunShot Awardee by the U.S. Department of Energy. But what are we building? “What’s my utility bill with solar?” It’s a deceptively simple question which actually takes Solar Providers (Developers, Installers, Financiers) a large amount of time and pain (and money) to figure out. It’s called solar [...]
Posted in News, SunShot Also tagged Department of Energy, Funding, PV, Rate API, Soft Costs, Solar Calculator, SunShot 7 Comments
Genability Awarded SunShot Funding by the Department of Energy
We are pleased to announce that Genability has been selected as a SunShot Awardee by the U.S. Department of Energy. Genability has been awarded $500,000 to develop Web, API and Data tools to instantly and accurately calculate and optimize the savings of implementing solar PV. Currently, figuring out the economics of a PV system is [...]
Posted in News, SunShot Also tagged Department of Energy, Funding, kWh, PV, soft cost, Solar Calculator, SunShot 4 Comments
Sun was Shining on Cleanweb Solar
This weekend concluded the first Cleanweb Solar Hackathon hosted by Sungevity in Oakland. Developers, programmers, and business types all collaberated to create teams that competed against one another to build applications that made solar power easy, efficient and a part of our daily lives. To kick things off, the audience heard words of encouragement for [...]
Posted in API, Consumers, Developers, Info, News Also tagged APIs, Cleanweb Hackathon, energy efficiency, Solar Calculator 1 Comment
Cleanweb Solar Hackathon in Oakland
Since the inaugural launch in San Francisco in September 2011, Cleanweb has gone national. Cleanweb hackathons are designed to gather innovative programmers, designers and entrepreneurs to bring attention to and create technologies that solve environmental issues in a 48 hour time period. So far this year Cleanweb has hacked New York City, Boston, Boulder, Santa [...]
Posted in API, Developers, News Also tagged API, apps, Cleanweb Hackathon, Solar Calculator 2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Commercial and Industrial, Consumers, Info, News, Residential, Whats My Power Also tagged cost per kilowatt, MIT 1 Comment
Introducing “Palo Alto CLEAN”, the Solar Feed-in tariff from the city of Palo Alto
The city of Palo Alto took a big step towards clean energy production by introducing a solar Feed-in tariff, called the Palo Alto CLEAN (Clean Local Energy Accessible Now). Feed-in Tariffs are programs though which utilities buy renewable energy from their customers. City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) will purchase electricity generated by solar electric systems located [...]
Posted in Explorer, News Also tagged Explorer, feed-in, Palo Alto, Solar Calculator, tariff Leave a comment
Solar Project Pipeline
While there has been much focus on the Solyndra bankruptcy in solar news lately, the U.S. project pipeline is seeing massive growth in photovoltaic project development due to large cuts over the summer in solar module prices. After only two months, the US non-residential solar project pipeline has increased from 17GW to 24GW. There are [...]
Posted in Commercial and Industrial, Info, News Also tagged renewable energy, Solar Calculator Leave a comment
Genability Presents at ASES Solar2013