Demand Response Programs for Homes

Earning Incentives with Demand Response Programs

Demand Response (DR) programs can help you save energy and money. DR programs provide incentives for reducing electricity use when the demand for electricity is high. Learn how Demand Response programs contribute to a clean energy future and the impact these programs can make during emergency situations.

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Our Residential Demand Response Programs

Maximize your energy savings while preserving and protecting power for everyone. Choose the DR program that fits your needs. 

Summer Discount Plan

  • Earn up to $180 in summer bill credits. 
  • Requires central A/C system to qualify. 
  • SCE automatically cycles your A/C off and on during SDP events to conserve electricity in exchange for bill credits. 
  • You may choose not to participate in SDP events up to 5 times per year. 
  • You’ll earn monthly bill credits from June 1 through Sept. 30. 

Smart Energy Program

  • Earn a one-time $75 sign-up credit and up to $40 in annual bill credits when maintaining enrollment June 1 through Sept. 30. 
  • Requires qualifying smart thermostat with central A/C system. 
  • SCE automatically adjusts your smart thermostat by up to four degrees during SEP events to save energy. 
  • You may override events at any time by re-adjusting the temperature on the thermostat. 

Power Saver Rewards Program

  • Earn an average of $40 in bill credits yearly. 
  • Reduce electricity use during PSR program events between 4 and 9 p.m., May 1 through Oct. 31. 
  • Bill credits awarded at start of each year. 
  • No penalty for not participating in PSR program events; the more you save the more you earn. 
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Why Participate in Demand Response?

The cleanest, most sustainable energy is the energy we never use. By reducing energy use during critical times, you’re doing much more than earning rewards and saving money. You’re helping to ensure that power stays on for everyone, particularly during emergencies, making a real difference for your community.

How It Works

STEP 1

When it’s hot the demand for energy increases.

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We notify you to reduce electricity.
 

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You reduce usage or permit us to reduce it for you.

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You receive compensation for helping us.
 

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How We Notify You


Our free Demand, Response Alerts app ensures you’ll receive courtesy notifications about upcoming DR events straight to your smartphone. Visit our app-information page to sign up for alerts and never miss a savings opportunity.

Or download the free app directly. 

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Additional Savings Programs

The following third parties also supply DR services to help you manage and lower home energy use.*

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AMS pairs commercial and industrial customers with technologies like behind-the-meter battery storage and automated load control to participate in utility programs and wholesale markets.

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Easily participate in demand response using your smart thermostats, smart plugs, lighting, EVs, batteries, or any of your devices. Save energy and receive payments throughout the year with AutoGrid patented technology.

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Chai Energy is a user-friendly mobile application that helps customers find ways to save energy and reduce their bills. Chai uses energy data to find savings through electric vehicles, rooftop solar, efficient appliances, demand response programs, time of use energy rates, and behavior changes in the home.

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CPower is a leading national provider of demand-side energy management solutions. CPower operates and offers several demand response and demand management programs in the SCE utility territories including: Demand Response Auction Mechanism (DRAM), Capacity Bidding Program (CBP), and through its partnership with Stem, the SCE-LCR program which combines energy storage and demand response. Find out more about CPower’s SCE offerings.

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In California, EDF Trading North America, LLC is a Scheduling Coordinator and a Demand Response Provider (DRP). EDF Trading North America, LLC provides services to large commercial and industrial customers that allow them to economically manage their own demand response programs, or EDF Trading North America, LLC can act on behalf of the customer as DRP.

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Learn how to get paid for charging your electrical vehicle (EV)! Owners of eMotorWerks’ or its partners’ EV charging stations can earn money by helping to balance the grid and facilitate the wider use of renewable energy.

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Curtail energy costs and maintain day-to-day business operations. We specialize in monitored, measured and verified energy savings to provide incentives to our demand response customers.

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EnergyHub’s programs enable and incentivize customers to use their internet-connected thermostats, water heaters, EVs and other connected products to save energy at times of peak demand.

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Earn revenue while helping to stabilize the grid by participating in demand response with EnerNOC. We are the global leader in DR, and we are committed to making your participation as easy as possible while maximizing your revenue potential.

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Specializing in Demand Response aggregation and AutoDR, we work with restaurants, retailers, schools, cities and water operators, along with commercial and industrial customers of all sizes, to leverage every kW possible.

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Automated demand response, enabled by intelligent energy storage, co-optimized with energy bill reduction services.

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GridPoint makes Automated Demand Response participation and DR revenue realization easy for businesses of all sizes and types.  As an official SCE Capacity Bidding Program Aggregator GridPoint works with each customer to lower their energy usage and provide peak demand mitigation across one site or multiple sites, tailored to a business’ specific facilities and requirements.

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Earn revenue and save energy by participating in the Capacity Bidding Program (CBP). Through Innovari Market Solutions, participants become partners in determining curtailment strategies and incentives.

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IPKeys Power Partners is a leading provider of Demand Response resources and solutions across the United States. We provide an advanced Auto DR platform with our Energy Interop Server & System™ (EISS™) system and customer tools to enable our customers to participate in a broader range of Demand Response including Capacity, Reserves, Energy and Rate Optimization programs.

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Leap is a marketplace for grid services, allowing every electrical device to help balance the grid, regardless of capacity, availability and location.

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The ultimate win-win energy solution, demand response programs benefit all energy users. NRG Curtailment Solutions will work your organization to recommend specific reduction strategies as well as provide real-time training and support so your facilities can maximize each program’s market benefits.

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Save energy. Get paid. Join OhmConnect’s free service to earn weekly payments for saving energy. Receive text or email notifications when it’s time to save, and connect smart devices to fully automate your OhmConnect experience.

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Stem’s unique artificial intelligence for energy storage, Athena™, delivers the benefits of DR without disruption by automatically responding to events and shifting energy use away from the most expensive times. As a member of Stem’s LCR network, achieve real-time energy optimization with heavily discounted service rates, guaranteed cost savings, and no capital outlay.

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Swell is a smart, clean energy company on a mission to modernize the grid by delivering smart energy solutions to consumers, utilities and grid operators.

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Tesla Energy now offers Powerpack customers the opportunity to see additional savings from their storage systems. By harnessing the energy in your Powerpack when it is not needed for bill management, Tesla’s algorithms create additional revenue for you, while providing valuable services to the grid.

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THG Energy‘s OpenADR-certified technology enables customers for intelligent, automated demand response. Our proprietary hardware and software solution combines flexible controls, down-to-the-minute monitoring, and market intelligence to make participating in demand response programs straightforward and valuable to both customers and the electricity grid.

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Viridity Energy Solutions is a leading demand response, demand management, and battery storage solutions provider. Through its flexible and turnkey VPower™ software-as-a-service and services platform, Viridity maximizes energy revenue and savings for customers.

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Voltus is a demand response company for commercial and industrial businesses.Services include demand response program enrollment and aggregation,energy management consulting and energy technology solutions.

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*SCE displays links to websites or electronic services sponsored by third parties. SCE is not responsible for the content or operation of third-party websites or electronic services reached by the virtue of such links or content, and the presence of such links or content does not imply SCE endorses or is affiliated with such third-party websites, services, or third parties, or any services or products they offer. The third parties, and not SCE, are solely responsible for any advertisements, opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, data, information, content, or other materials that such third parties express or make available, including the description of third-party services on this SCE page.

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Use of Circuit Breakers During DR Events

Since safety is SCE’s number one priority, SCE will never advise its customers to participate in Demand Response events by turning on and off electricity at their circuit breakers. Most residential circuit breakers are not designed to work as on/off switches during DR events, and improper and frequent use may lead to hazardous conditions or damage to your electronic equipment and appliances. SCE does not recommend this practice for Demand Response. If you do flip your circuit breaker on or off for any reason, SCE recommends you exercise the appropriate precautions, which include but are not limited to:

  1. Wearing and using protective gear to protect against arc flashing; 
  2. Turning equipment off before turning the circuits back on to avoid damage or excessive wear; 
  3. Checking with the panel manufacturer to confirm whether the panel is designed for this type of use; and 
  4. Ensuring circuits do not support medical devices, smoke detectors, fire alarms, and other critical or safety-related equipment and devices. 

 

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