SCE provides several Flexible Pricing Options for all types of business customers. These are intended to help customers grow and improve their operations. For more information, call 1-800-990-7788.
Electro-Drive Savings
Experience shows that new technologies come down in price as they are produced in greater quantities. Remember the cost of your first VCR? How about your first computer? A far cry from what they cost today.
The same is expected to happen with electro-drive technologies. But until mass production lowers their initial costs, incentives are helping to level the playing field so everyone can reap the benefits that clean, quiet electro-drive vehicles offer. Federal, state, regional, and local incentive programs are available.
Beyond this, work performed by organizations like Southern California Edison (SCE) is helping to find multiple uses for advanced EV batteries — such as in stationary telecommunications and electric utility substation applications — as another way to lower their costs. (More information is available from our EV Tech Center.) And the electro-drive technology industry continues to look at identifying a single nickel-metal-hydride "energy" battery specification that can be used in most pure EV, plug-in-hybrid and 42-volt internal-combustion applications — for the latter, to "power" emerging communications, navigation, entertainment, and safety systems in gas-powered cars.
If all of the "stakeholders" involved — namely federal and state government agencies, automakers, battery manufacturers and utilities — approach this issue in a spirit of partnership, electro-drive costs will become a much less significant issue, and the viability and availability of technologies powered by electricity as a fuel will increase.
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GS-APS
(Air Conditioner Cyclying Program - Base)
This rate applies to commercial and industrial GS-2 and TOU-GS-2 customers, re-opened April 14, 2001, with no change to the existing program. 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 June 1st through October 1st each year.
For more information about Southern California Edison's pricing schedules, visit SCE's online Tariff Book or for program information see ACCP Commercial.
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GS-APS-E
(Air Conditioner Cycling Program - Enhanced)
This rate applies to commercial and industrial GS-2 or TOU-GS-2 customers, 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 ACCP, the Enhanced ACCP 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 June 1st through October 1st each year.
For more information about Southern California Edison's pricing schedules, visit SCE's online Tariff Book or for program information see ACCP Commercial.
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Simplified Self-Generation Deferral Rate
This rate schedule is available to customers with a feasible co-generation project rated between 200 kW and 10,000 kW. Customers receive the economic benefits of a co-/self-generation project while SCE supplies their total electrical requirements. Certain restrictions and metering requirements apply to this rate schedule.
For more information about Southern California Edison's pricing schedules, visit SCE's online Tariff Book.
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Electric Industry Restructuring
The restructuring of the California electric industry in March 1998 gave customers the following options:
- Direct Access — Rate Schedule DA (PDF) is for customers who elect to purchase electric power and ancillary services from an Electric Service Provider (ESP). Certain restrictions apply. Since September 2001, the California Public Utilities Commission has suspended direct access for new customers.
- Interval Meter Ownership — Rate Schedule BSC-IMO is for customers who want to continue to purchase power from SCE but want to purchase and own an interval meter to obtain more information about their energy usage.
For more information on these options, contact SCE at 1-800-799-4723.
For more information about Southern California Edison's pricing schedules, visit SCE's online Tariff Book.
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Tariff Services
These are SCE's value-added services.
Southern California Edison offers more than just electricity. A quick look around this site will show you just how many helpful energy-related services we provide. Following are tariff services offer by SCE that you may not be familiar with:
- Equipment Leasing — If you are considering adding equipment to, or substituting equipment for, SCE's standard energy-services-related equipment, you may be able to lease some or all of it from SCE. You pay SCE to use the equipment through a contract financed by SCE or by you. For more information, contact SCE at 1-800-990-7788,
1-800-896-1245, or 1-800-799-4723.
- Energy Use Tracking — One of the best ways to control your company's energy costs is to track your electricity usage. Edison's Advanced Metering, Information Communication, and Operational System, SCE Energy Manager® allows you to track your energy usage over a customized, password-secured Web site. Note: The system requires an interval meter to gather necessary data.
- Interval Meter Service and Charges — If you are considering purchasing and owning your own interval meter, over and above the standard metering required for your energy rate, SCE offers a variety of metering options under Schedule CC-DSF.
For more information about Southern California Edison's pricing schedules, visit SCE's online Tariff Book.
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