Who is eligible to receive the credit?

Entities that primarily operate in industrial sectors that qualify for Industry Assistance under ARB’s Cap-and-Trade Regulation, regardless of the amount of emissions produced, are eligible for CA Industry Assistance. A facility is eligible if its principal source of revenue comes from a product, activity, or service that is eligible.

If your company owns multiple facilities throughout the State, each facility may or may not be eligible. It all depends on the type of product or service produced by each individual facility. Please refer to page 31, Table 8-1 of the 2018 Cap-and-Trade Regulation here for the full list of eligible facilities. To help you determine which NAICS Code applies to your facility, the US Census Bureau provides descriptions of the activities associated with NAICS Codes here.

Eligible industries fall within the following broader categories:

• Apparel Manufacturing
• Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
• Chemical Manufacturing
• Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
• Food Manufacturing
• Machinery Manufacturing
• Mining (except Oil and Gas)
• Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
• Oil and Gas Extraction
• Paper Manufacturing
• Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
• Primary Metal Manufacturing
• Support Activities for Transportation
• Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

Facilities must be customers of the investor-owned utilities (IOUs): Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison Company (SCE), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), Liberty Utilities (CalPeco Electric) LLC, or Pacific Power. This includes facilities that:

• Are bundled customers that purchase energy supply and delivery from the IOU
• Are unbundled customers that buy electricity from a Community Choice Aggregator, Direct Access provider, or Energy Services Provider, but receive electricity delivery from an IOU
• Make use of distributed generation, and procure standby electricity service from the interconnecting IOU
• Use distributed generation to supply 100% of their electricity demand and pay departing load charges to an IOU

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