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The following Southern California Edison (SCE) rate schedules apply to customers who register demands above 500 kW: |
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For more information about Southern California Edison's pricing schedules, visit SCE's online Tariff Book.
Businesses that register demands above 500 kW must take service on Rate Schedule TOU-8 or another large business rate schedule.
Rate Schedule GS-2
Southern California Edison's (SCE's) Schedule GS-2 is designed primarily for medium-sized commercial and industrial customers who have electrical equipment registering demands greater than 20 kilowatts (kW) but less than 500 kilowatts. Typical GS-2 customers include small manufacturing and processing firms, as well as retail businesses, churches, service stations, schools, and restaurants.
For more information about Southern California Edison's Schedule GS-2, please visit:
Rate Schedule GS-2
Rate Schedule TOU-8
The basic rate schedule for large-sized commercial and industrial customers who register demands greater than 500 kilowatts. These customers include large manufacturers and processors, supermarkets, colleges or universities, hospitals and office buildings.
For more information about Southern California Edison's TOU-8 rate schedule, visit:
Rate Schedule TOU-8
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Other Rate Schedules That May Apply to Your Business
Rate Schedule S
Under Schedule S, SCE provides default service when the customer’s generating facility is interrupted during scheduled or unscheduled outages (other than power outages or rotating outages). Schedule S ensures business will not be interrupted when the generator is not operating.
For more information about Rate Schedule S, please visit:
Rate Schedule S
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Interruptible rate options AP-I, TOU-8-SOP-1, RTP-2-I, and TOU-PA-SOP-I
Available to new SCE customers or existing customers who add new load. Under these options, SCE charges lower rates in exchange for the ability to interrupt service.
For more information about pricing schedules, please visit:
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Summer Discount Plan - Base GS-APS
This program offers participating customers credits on their summer season bills in exchange for allowing SCE to install a remotely controlled cycling device on their air conditioner(s). The cycling device permits SCE to periodically turn off, or "cycle," a customer's air conditioner(s) for short periods during the height of the summer season. Air conditioner interruptions are limited to 6 hours per event, 15 events per summer season. The summer season is from the first Sunday in June through the first Sunday in October each year.
For information about SCE's Commercial Summer Discount Plan GS-APS, visit:
SCE's Commercial Summer Discount Plan
For program information, see SCE's Commercial Summer Discount Plan.
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Summer Discount Plan - Enhanced GS-APS-E
Applies to commercial and industrial TOU-8 customers, and re-opened April 14, 2001. This program offers participating customers credits on their summer season bills in exchange for allowing SCE to install a remotely controlled cycling device on their air conditioner(s). The cycling device permits SCE to periodically turn off, or "cycle," a customer's air conditioner(s) an unlimited number of occurrences and a maximum of 6 hours per event during the height of the summer season. When compared with the Base Summer Discount Plan, the Enhanced Summer Discount Plan provides double the credit amounts, but the potential number of times SCE may turn off the air conditioner is unlimited during the summer season. The summer season is from the first Sunday in June to the first Sunday in October each year.
For information about SCE's Commercial Summer Discount Plan GS-APS-E, please visit:
SCE's Commercial Summer Discount Plan
For program information, see Commercial Summer Discount Plan.
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Optional Binding Mandatory Curtailment Program (OBMC)
This program exempts customers from rotating outages in exchange for partial power reductions from their entire circuit over a longer period. Specifically, customers must reduce power on their entire circuit by up to 15 percent during the entire duration of every rotating outage event. To participate in the OBMC Program, customers must submit a signed OBMC Plan acceptable to Southern California Edison (SCE).
OBMC Fact Sheet
OBMC Questions and Answers
OBMC Tariff Sheet
The links below provide more information on this program:
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This flexible Internet-based bidding program offers qualified SCE customers the opportunity to receive a credit on their bill for voluntarily reducing power without incurring any financial penalty. By participating in the program, customers can also assist in alleviating power shortages in California as well as lower their operating costs.
SCE bundled service and direct access customers who have at least one service account with a demand greater than 200 kW can participate in the DBP. Customers may also combine up to 25 service accounts to form an aggregated group.
If you are already participating in this program, proceed to the sign-on screen.
For more information on the Demand Bidding Program, please read:
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Time-of-Use Base Interruptible Program (TOU-BIP)
The TOU-BIP is an interruptible rate designed for customers who have monthly demands greater than 200 kW in any three months during the preceding 12 months. Customers must commit to reducing at least 15% of their maximum demand, which cannot be less than 100 kW. Customers must select a firm service level. The customer is required to reduce its elecrical usage to this specified firm service level within 30 minutes of being notified of an interruption event. In exchange customers receive a monthly credit based on the difference between their average peak period demand for each month and their selected firm service level. The TOU-BIP is available to customers who are eligible for service under rate schedule TOU-8 and to existing customers on rate schedule I-6 who complete their annual obligations on those programs.
For more information on TOU-BIP, please click on the links below:
The I-6 Interruptible Service Program provides lower energy and time-related demand charges for that portion of power usage a customer is willing to interrupt when requested by SCE. This rate is now available only to eligible customers with a minimum of 500 kW who are adding new load, or are new to SCE's service territory. Interruption events are limited to 25 events per year and will not exceed 6 hours per day, 4 events per calendar week (defined as Sunday through Saturday) and no more than 40 hours per month or 150 hours per year.
For more information on the I-6 Interruptible program, please visit the I-6/Base Interruptible Web site.
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Critical Peak Pricing (CPP) Rate Option
The CPP rate option may benefit customers who have at least one account with registered demands greater than 200 kW and who can reduce their power use during summer-season peak demand hours--noon to 6 p.m.--during a CPP event. SCE will declare CPP events and announce them to participating customers when either overall demand for power or the wholesale electricity price is approaching extreme levels. For CPP customers, energy prices during CPP events are three to five times higher than summer energy rates at other times, but prices at other times are lower than comparable prices on other rates.
For more information on SCE's Critical Peak Pricing Rate Option, click on the links below:
Critical Peak Pricing Fact Sheet
Critical Peak Pricing Questions and Answers
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Rates for Boat Marinas or Small Craft Harbors
Owners/Operators of privately or publicly owned boat marinas or small craft harbors normally take service from SCE through a single meter under an applicable general service schedule. Such customers are permitted to submeter and bill certain tenants within the boat marinas or small craft harbors for electrical usage and the owner/operator must adhere to the requirements of SCE's Rule 18 when submetering and billing tenants.
For more information, please click on the link below:
Applicable Rates for Boat Marinas or Small Craft Harbors
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