A Guide to Modeling Solar + Storage on CCAs

If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening in California’s solar market in the slightest bit over the past 10 years, you’re somewhat familiar with community choice aggregation (CCA). Since Marion County launched the first CCA program in 2010, the adaptation from several other counties soon followed. There are now …

Simplifying the process of retrieving usage data

Retrieving and obtaining data from a utility can be difficult and time-consuming, but completely necessary in accurately modeling solar + storage projects. It varies from utility to utility, and when you’re a developer, working on several projects, retrieving data for each project can take days, even weeks. If you’re going …

We Updated our SGIP Incentives

We made a small update to the logic we use to calculate (SGIP) Self Generation Incentive Program energy storage incentives that we want to make users aware of. The SGIP Program Handbook states that the energy capacity of a storage system, which the SGIP incentive is paid based on, is …

Energy Toolbase + Stem Integration: What You Should Know

When it comes to energy storage modeling, Energy Toolbase has consistently made improvements to our platform that allows our users to accurately model, propose and optimize the economics of any behind-the-meter storage project. Our latest integration with Stem , the world leader in AI-driven energy storage services gives project developers …

Energy Toolbase Integrates Stem’s Industry-Leading AI Storage Platform and Experience

Energy Toolbase now includes Stem, Inc. , the world leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven energy storage services. This addition gives project developers who use Energy Toolbase the opportunity to design and deploy solar + storage solutions based on Stem’s industry-leading energy storage controls. With this integration, distributed energy providers can …

Using custom rates for modeling solar + storage projects

Utility rate structures are one of the biggest factors when analyzing the economics behind solar and energy storage projects. Not all your customers are going to be on the same rate structure. The variances between two customers could be a small as a adding a charge or your customer has …