Sighten is pleased to announce that, from June 8th 2017, utility and rate selection on Sighten's site page will run off of Sighten's integration with Genability. Genability is widely recognized as the leading utility rates engine, capturing all utility rates in the US with every rate component, tariff eligibility rule and rate option. Fifteen thousand updates are made every month to Genability's rate books, keeping them always up-to-date. More about Genability here.
The launch of the Genability integration comes with exciting new features and a few changes to the UI, so let's look at those changes in details.
Which rates will I now be able to select?
All US residential utility rates. The Genability database covers 100% of utility rates in the United States. All of these rates will be available to select in Sighten's UI to be selected.
Will the calculations be accurate?
The coverage is not only full, it is accurate and up-to-date and models every rate component, tariff eligibility rule and rate option. Genability follows every tariff change and updates its database in 1 business day, that makes up for 15,000+ rate updates every month.
Will there be UI changes?
Yes. We took the opportunity of this integration to simplify the utility tile in the UI. Where there used to be four dropdowns - Electric Utility, Utility Territory, Utility Rate Schedule and Heating Source -, there are now only two dropdowns: Electric Utility and Utility Rate Schedule. This makes finding the appropriate utility and rate schedule much easier and intuitive for Sighten users. See the difference below.
Former UI New UI
Will utility and rate defaults change?
Yes, and for the better! Whenever you create a site at an address, Sighten will now select by default the most likely utility and rate schedule for that particular location. More, utilities and rates schedules will now be ranked by order of likelihood for that location.
What happens with previously created sites?
Sites create before June 8th 2017 will continue to operate on Sighten's previous utility rates database. They will continue to show the former UI and rate coverage. All newly created sites after June 8th 2017 will work with the new functionality.