About the Program
SCE’s Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) provides financial incentives for the installation of new, qualifying customer self-generation equipment for their own on-site usage. Technologies currently eligible for SGIP incentives are generation related to wind, fuel cell, waste heat capture, and conventional CHP. Incentives are also provided for advanced energy storage, standalone as well as paired with SGIP eligible technologies or PV.
The SGIP program is designed primarily with business and large institutional customers in mind.
No minimum or maximum size restrictions given that project meets onsite load. Wind & renewable-fueled fuel cell must have a minimum size of 30 kilowatts.
Rebates for renewable generation—such as wind turbines or fuel cell—that generate less than 30 kilowatts of energy are available through the California Energy Commission’s Emerging Renewables Program (ERP). Fuel cells of any size using non-renewable fuels may receive incentives under the SGIP program.
Solar rebates are currently administered under SCE’s California Solar Initiative program.
Eligible Equipment
SGIP program participants are eligible to receive incentives under this program for installing self-generation technologies.
- Only commercially available and factory new equipment are eligible for incentives, which are based on system type, size, fuel source and out-of-pocket costs.
- Rebuilt or refurbished equipment is not eligible to receive incentives under this program.
- There is no maximum system size limit, although the incentive payment for 2011 is capped at 3 MW.
- Eligible generation equipment must be certified to operate in parallel with the electric system grid (not back-up generation) and meet other criteria established by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
Background
The SGIP was created by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to offer financial incentives to customers who install certain types of distributed generation facilities to meet all or a portion of their energy needs. SGIP contributes to reductions in GHG emissions. Self-generation benefits both SCE and its customers by reducing electrical system demand, which in turn reduces the need to build expensive fossil fuel-fired power plants.
