Demand Response Programs
SCE offers a variety of Demand Response Programs to help qualifying customers reduce their energy usage during peak times while lowering their electricity costs. For an overview of the Price-Responsive and Reliability Demand Response Programs SCE offers, including program descriptions, tips, and a glossary of DR terms, please see the Demand Response Programs Guide (PDF).
Qualifying customers who can reduce power when statewide energy supplies are low may earn financial incentives, and/or other benefits by participating in these programs. While saving money, your participation can make a difference in the state's energy and economic well-being.
This program provides a year-round monthly bill credit to customers who are willing to interrupt power usage at SCE's request. It is offered on a contract basis to eligible agricultural and pumping customers who register 35 kW or greater of maximum demand, or have 50 horsepower or greater of connected load. Interruption events are limited to one event per day, four events per calendar week (defined as Sunday through Saturday), or 25 events per year and will not exceed 6 hours per day, 40 hours per month, or 150 hours per year.
This program enables eligible SCE customers to participate in SCE Demand Response programs by reducing electricity usage during periods of peak demand without manual intervention. Customers may pre-select their levels of participation and automatically take part in a demand response event, permitting customers increased flexibility and ease-of-use.
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 percent 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 electrical usage to this specified firm service level within 15 or 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. TOU-BIP is available to bundled service, Direct Access and Community Choice Aggregation customers, and CSPs of these customers.
The Capacity Bidding Program (CBP) offers qualified businesses incentives for agreeing to reduce load (for example, lighting, HVAC, escalators/elevators, pumps or some manufacturing equipment) when a CBP event is called. Participants make monthly nominations and receive incentive payments based on the amount of load (capacity) reduction nominated each month, plus payments for actual energy reduction, based on kilowatt hours (kWh), when an event is called. The amount of capacity reduction can be adjusted on a monthly basis. The program is Internet-based providing ready access to program information and ease of use for participants.
You can lower your business' electric bills and operating costs by shifting or reducing electricity usage during "critical peak" demand periods. Southern California Edison's (SCE) voluntary Critical Peak Pricing (CPP) programs may benefit commercial and industrial customers who can reduce or shift some or all of their power in the summer season from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. during a CPP event. Energy rates during summer season CPP events are significantly higher than energy rates during summer season non-CPP periods. However, by reducing electricity usage during CPP events, you can avoid these higher prices and benefit from lower electricity bills. By participating in a CPP program, customers receive summertime credits — monthly on-peak demand charges are reduced throughout the summer season — and enjoy the satisfaction of helping the environment by reducing carbon emissions.
The Demand Bidding Program is a flexible, Internet-based bidding program that offers your organization the opportunity to receive bill credits for voluntarily reducing power when a DBP event is called, with either day-ahead or day-of notification (there are no penalties for this program).
If you are a bundled service, Direct Access or Community Choice Aggregation customer who has at least one service account with a demand of 200 kW or greater, you can participate in the DBP. You may also combine up to 25 service accounts to form an aggregated group.
CPUC Decision 08-03-017, dated March 13, 2008, and CPUC Decision 09-08-027, dated August 24, 2009, approved SCE's requests to procure demand response resources from third party providers. The following organizations are currently authorized to enroll customers to participate in this SCE demand response program through December 31, 2012, with the exception of EnergyConnect, Inc, which is authorized through December 31, 2011.
The OBMC exempts you from rotating outages in exchange for partial power reductions from your facility's(ies') entire circuit over a longer period. Specifically, you must reduce power on your entire circuit by up to 15% during the entire duration of every rotating outage event. To participate, you must submit a signed OBMC Plan acceptable to Southern California Edison (SCE).
With one of these new technologies your business may be able to permanently shift its electricity load, which can help you save energy, money and the environment. SCE's Permanent Load Shifting (PLS) program is designed to assist SCE business customers with resources to acquire PLS enabling technologies to reduce their energy bills by shifting load from peak time periods when rates are higher to mid- and off-peak periods when rates are lower.
Provides participating residential and business customers a simple way to save money during the summer season (June 1st to October 1st). There are several programs with a variety of options to choose from that fit your business or lifestyle.
Southern California Edison's (SCE) Technical Assistance and Technology Incentives Program provides eligible commercial and industrial customers technical assistance in the form of demand response site assessments at no charge, and technology incentives for the installation of technologies that reduce electricity usage during periods of high demand.
Real-Time Pricing (RTP-2) is available to customers with a maximum demand greater than 500 kW. This rate benefits customers with the flexibility to shift or reduce energy usage based on temperature-driven pricing variations. 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 by the National Weather Service. RTP-2 customers can also take advantage of additional savings by participating in SCE's Base Interruptible Program (BIP).
Scheduled Load Reduction Program (SLRP)
The Scheduled Load Reduction Program provides a bill credit per kWh of qualified load drop to bundled service customers who agree (by completing a contract) to reduce load by a re-determined amount on pre-selected weekdays and summer season hours (June 1 through September 30). Customers with an average monthly demand of 100 kW or greater must commit to curtail at least 15% of their maximum demand, but not less than 100 kW for each hour during pre-scheduled days and times. Other reduction amounts may be selected for each hour during one of three timeframe options (not necessarily on the same day): A) 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon; B) 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m.; or C) 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Customers may only request to not participate in their SLRP contract once per year, during the November 1 through December 1 window.
All bundled service agricultural and water pumping customers may take advantage of savings from Southern California Edison's (SCE) Pumping and Agricultural Real-Time Pricing (PA-RTP) rate. This rate is beneficial to customers with the flexibility to shift or reduce energy usage to times when temperatures (and electricity prices) are lower.
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