Agriculture

Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Pumping and Agricultural Real-Time Pricing (PA-RTP) rate (PDF) benefits customers with the flexibility to shift or reduce energy usage to times when temperatures (and electricity prices) are lower.

How the Program Works

Under Rate Schedule PA-RTP, customers are billed hourly electricity prices that vary based on the time of day, season and temperature. SCE uses temperatures based on data recorded the previous day from Downtown Los Angeles, as recorded by the National Weather Service and accessed by the customer for monitoring purposes at www.wrh.noaa.gov/lox. Temperature monitoring is the key to achieving the benefits of PA-RTP.

SCE’s summer season begins on June 1 and continues until October 1 of each year. The winter season begins October 1 and continues until June 1 of the following year. Holidays are recognized as off-peak periods. Holidays falling on Sunday are recognized as off-peak on the following Monday (there is no change for holidays that fall on Saturday).

Who Can Participate

All bundled service agricultural and water pumping customers are eligible for PA-RTP. These are customers who use 70% or more of their electricity for general agricultural purposes, or for general water/sewage pumping - and none of any remaining electrical usage is for purposes to which a domestic rate schedule is applicable.

In most cases, if a customer's maximum demand is expected to exceed 500 kW, or has done so for any three months during the previous year, they may not be eligible for this rate. Should this occur, the account would be transferred to Real-Time Pricing (RTP-2) or the customer could select another applicable rate.

What Is Needed

Customers interested in PA-RTP are required to have interval meters (IDR, at a minimum). If you don’t have an interval meter, SCE will install one free of charge.

Easy to Participate

To learn more about PA-RTP, contact your SCE Account Representative. You can also find additional RTP rate information online at www.sce.com/drp.