Departing Load is determined based on the amount of load (kWh) served by your generator.

"Load is considered Departing Load if you reduce your purchase of electricity from us or you replace the purchase of electricity from us with another source and remain at the same location or within our service area."

If your generator is no longer operating at your facility, you will need to first contact your Grid Contract Manager by sending an e-mail to InterconnectionQA@sce.com and terminate your Interconnection Agreement. Once the Interconnection Agreement is terminated, we will remove your account from the Standby rate.

If your generator or electricity demand change, you are required to notify us of the change in your generation operation. Upon receipt of this notification, we will evaluate your account to determine if an adjustment to your Standby billing determinants is required. This change could also require a change to your Interconnection Agreement.

Yes. If you have a change in operation of your generating facility, please notify your Account Manager right away so we can evaluate the potential impact to your Standby billing determinants.

We will use the best available information (including historical usage when available) to establish the billing determinants required for billing your account on Standby. Your usage history will typically determine the Standby and Supplemental Contract Capacity demands (“Standby billing determinants”). If there is not sufficient usage history (14 months), you may be required to provide us with additional information, such as estimated load you will need us to regularly supply.

Standby kW represents the entire reserve capacity that we must serve when your generating facility is not operating per normal conditions or is shut down for maintenance. Standby kW excludes the load we regularly serve. The Standby kW cannot exceed the nameplate capacity of your generating facility and cannot be less than zero. If applicable, Capacity Reservation Charge and Backup Time-Related Demand charges are determined by the Standby kW.

Supplemental Contract Capacity (SCC) is the level of demand kW that we regularly serve. It is used to determine the portion of your total peak period demand (if applicable) to be billed at the Backup Time Related Demand price vs. the Supplemental Time Related Demand price.

To be established on a Standby rate, your generation must be interconnected to the grid and the following Standby billing determinants must be established.

With your generator interconnected to and operating in parallel with our transmission or distribution lines, we are “standing by” to provide you with electric service when your generator experiences a partial or complete shutdown.