Energy Toolbase with Adam Gerza

Copyright 2018 - The Energy Show, Barry Cinnamon To many customers, both businesses and homeowners, solar and battery storage is like magic. Does solar really work? Will they really save money? And commercial customers are even more diligent about accurate savings predictions. There are good computer models to reasonably predict in kilowatt hours how much a system will produce. But mapping this information into thousands of different utility tariffs and doing a proposal that can be understood is really complicated. You have to take into account things like changing rates, time periods, rate tiers, demand charges, fixed fees. --It's a hard problem to solve reliably. In my companies we use to do these things manually in huge spreadsheets that did these calculations for rates all over the country. Imagine a spreadsheet with 35,000 rows of 15 minute interval data. It's enough to make your head explode! While that is what you need to do these analysis, now there is a better approach. If I had to do it again, I'd use a product called Energy Toolbase. Energy Toolbase is the industry's leading software platform for modeling and proposing the economics of solar and storage products. After all, your customers and your reputation depend on providing accurate predictions of solar and energy storage savings. My guest on this week's Energy Show is Adam Gerza, Chief Operating Officer of Energy Toolbase. Adam gained his solar chops after many years in the commercial solar industry. He knows the business and knows how to crunch the numbers. So listen up to this week's Energy Show as we speak with Adam about his company, solution and the solar and energy storage market.