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Federal ITC and MACRS Informational Resources
Federal Investment Tax Credit (updated 2022) 30% for systems placed in service by end of 2032 26% for systems placed in service during 2033 22% for systems placed in service during 2034 0% for…
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How does SolarNexus integrate with Quickbooks or other accounting systems?
SolarNexus does not have a formal software integration with any third party accounting software at this time. But, regardless of accounting system, SolarNexus' project milestone notifications are a…
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Documents Required for CA IOU Interconnections
UPDATE OCTOBER 2020: The CPUC has issued a new version (2020) of the required solar consumer information guide. The new version will become active as of October 20, 2020,…
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How do I adjust ITC level that gets populated in my Analyses?
The US Federal ITC level has been set to step down to lower percentages on January first of various years. The start of 2021 was initially supposed to drop from 26% to 22%,…
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My Utility's Interconnection Portal Requires an "Electronic Signature Audit Trail"
Some utilities are requiring upload of an electronic signature audit trail. This is a DocuSign feature. To get from DocuSign: Login to your DocuSign account.…
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How do I reassign job tasks?
There are times when you need to re-assign job tasks from one user to another. For example: when a user has been inactivated when a user has too much on their tasklist when a user is going on…
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Why Are SolarNexus Bill Estimates Different than Historic Actuals?
SolarNexus uses Genability's bill calculation services to project the expected before and after electric bill amounts IN THE FUTURE. So you should never expect bill calcs to match past bill amounts.…
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Why do the post-project electric bills escalate more than the given electric inflation rate?
When calculating post-project electric bills, you have to take into account the expected year over year degradation in PV system output. Meaning that in addition to the increase in electric rates,…
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How do I enter peak demand from customer utility bills?
For tariffs that have demand charges, SolarNexus will estimate monthly peak demand based on usage. However, this estimate can often be far off from actual peak demand.…
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Why is there no D-CARE NEM 2.0 rate for SCE?
As of April 2019, there is no longer a separate post-solar rate schedule for D-CARE in SolarNexus. To apply the CARE discount: 1. Select the post-solar tariff (e.g. TOU-4-9PM) 2.…
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Utility Bill Calcs on California's NEM 2.0
As California's investor owned utilities have been transitioning to new Net Energy Metering 2.0 rates, we often get questions about how this affects utility bill calculations and resulting savings.…
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What is "Supply Rate" when inputting customer energy use?
A tariff may have a "Supply Rate" which is the cost per kWh of energy for your individual customer. In deregulated markets like Texas, customers can buy their energy from one of many providers,…
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Can't find a specific PV panel (aka module) or inverter, how can I add it?
If you want to add a PV panel (aka module), inverter, or DC optimizer to your Company Catalog, you first access the Public Catalog and choose it from there.…
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How can I create multiple prices for one product?
IF you are using the cost item approach, you can update your existing items to have variable cost structure. This would allow you to create selections based on the sector, or other relevant variables.…
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How do I delete a project?
You must have Administrative or Sales Management permissions to delete a project. Projects can only be deleted from the Sales screen, or from the project Search results.…
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How to Change the Customer for an Existing Project?
This article describes how to change the Customer for a given Project. There are two separate scenarios where you may need to change out the Customer on an existing project:…
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How is LCOE Calculated?
LCOE, or levelized cost of energy is an economic assessment of the average total cost to build and operate a power-generating asset over its lifetime divided by the total power output of the asset…