Maximizing Savings with Time-of-Use Rates for Solar
Extracting meaningful cost savings from your solar investment involves more than simply generating power; it also demands an understanding of how utility rate structures, such as time-of-use (TOU) rates, can impact overall savings potential.
Q3 2024 Utility Rates Newsletter
This quarter we’re answering some questions about our new NEM Programs, as well as proposed Avoided Cost Calculator (ACC) values, Massachusetts Net Metering (NEM) revisions, California Investor-Owned Utility (IOU) updates, and our quarterly numbers.
ETB Developer – Utility Rates Training Session: NEM Programs
Summary: Accurate and transparent utility rates are essential for modeling the avoided costs of your projects in ETB Developer. We’re excited to announce our newest feature – NEM Programs – for ETB Developer. This feature includes pre-built net metering (NEM) or net billing programs that users can select in an Energy Use Profile. In this webinar, our utility rates team educates our users on everything related to utility rates […]
Q2 2024 Utility Rates Newsletter
This quarter we’re covering rate decreases for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) — and also SCE’s 2025-2028 General Rate Case, Indiana rate increases, Illinois’s changing NEM, new team members, and our quarterly numbers.
March 2024 Utility Rates Newsletter
In this month’s newsletter, we cover updates to SDG&E’s rates, explore Arizona Public Service’s (APS) recent rate case, overview a new Energy Use Profile feature for supply-related exports, and share our quarterly numbers.
How Utility Rate Inflation Impacts Energy Storage Viability
As energy markets constantly change, utility rate inflation remains a significant driver of change, creating challenges and opportunities for consumers and businesses alike. One notable shift is the erosion of value for standalone photovoltaic (PV) systems under the NEM 3.0 framework.
February 2024 Utility Rates Newsletter
This month we cover rate cases for Idaho Power, Public Service Company of New Mexico, and Con Edison, highlight the addition of Hawaiian Electric’s Shift & Save rates to our database, and explain the difference between PG&E’s B-1 and B-6 rate schedules.
January 2024 Utility Rates Newsletter
IMPORTANT MONTHLY UPDATES & ANNOUNCEMENTS This month, we break down Duke Energy North Carolina’s rate overhaul, demonstrate how we handle the ACC export values for the California IOUs, highlight a new EUP feature to make calculating RTP values easier, and explain how to ensure that interval data usage matches the …
The Impact of NEM 3.0 on Utility Rate Inflation
It’s been almost a year since California’s California’s Net Billing Tariff (NEM 3.0) went into effect, which profoundly impacted utility rate inflation, completely decoupling the value of imported energy from exported energy.
The Future of Utility Rate Escalation in California
Utility rates in California’s Investor-Owned Utilities (IOU) have escalated at a compound annual growth rate of 3.9% to 7.4% over the last ten years. Energy Toolbase recently conducted this study to provide a transparent account of the rate inflation and predict future inflation rates, serving as a guide for how those in solar and storage sales will define utility rate escalation in their proposals.