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San Joaquin Valley Pilot Program
Get Electric Appliances Installed in Your Home at No Cost to You
You may qualify to have electric appliances installed in your home if you live in California City, Ducor, or West Goshen. For a limited time, SCE will replace propane and wood-burning appliances in qualifying homes with energy-efficient appliances to help you save energy and money. Through this Pilot, SCE may also pay for certain, limited repairs or upgrades to bring your home into compliance with existing state and local code standards.
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Eligibility Requirements
In order to be eligible for this program, you must:
Be a current SCE Customer
Live in a home in California City, Ducor, or West Goshen
Live in a home that meets current housing code standards, or be eligible for SCE to assist
upgrading your home so that it meets code standards.
Use either wood or propane for your water heater and space conditioning
Comply with all other terms and conditions of the Pilot.
The Participation Process
A Community Energy Navigator will help you prepare your application. Make sure to start saving your propane and wood receipts now.
We’ll inspect your home, including taking measurements and photos to determine if your home meets the requirements for Pilot participation.
If you qualify, we’ll work with an authorized contractor to install the appliances at no cost to you.
After the installation, we’ll inspect the appliances to ensure a quality installation was completed.
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Additional terms and conditions apply, and the Community Energy Navigator can answer your questions about the Pilot
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Ready to get started?
Email us at SJVPilot@sce.com to tell us you’re interested and provide your name(s), service address, and telephone number.
More energy-efficient than traditional water heaters, heat pump water heaters pull heat from the air to heat the water inside. Heat pump water heaters require no venting and produce no toxic fumes.
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Heat Pump Air Conditioning System
This system works by moving heat. Because they can both heat and cool the air in a home, they save energy and money over their lifetime while improving indoor air quality. This system can replace both your gas furnaces and air conditioners.
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Electric Range
Electric stoves are fairly easy to operate, which makes them good choices for people. An electric stove also offers the most stable work surface for pots and pans.
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Electric Dryer
Many people don't realize the exhaust from a gas-powered clothes dryer contains small amounts of carbon monoxide.
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Certain restrictions, such as size and condition of the system or appliance to be replaced, may apply. The product images are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product.
Yes. To participate in the pilot, you must:
- Be a homeowner or renter who receives electric services through an individual residential SCE
SMART meter in one of the SCE pilot communities, listed at [link].
- If you rent your home, you must obtain the property owner’s written authorization and both of you must sign a tenant-owner agreement.
- Not have access to natural gas for your home energy use
- Must sign an authorization to disclose customer information form to release and share customer
data and usage
- Meet other requirements, including, but not limited to:
- The cost of the repairs required to bring the property into compliance with housing code standards for the installation of appliances cannot exceed $5,000 per household.
- If the cost to bring the property into compliance with housing code standards does exceed $5,000, the Community Energy Navigator Program Manager may be able to help you locate additional funding for such repairs.
- Allow the replacement of space and water heating propane units with a heat pump heating and cooling system and heat pump water heater
- If a renter must obtain property owner authorization and sign a tenant-owner agreement
- Change to all electric baseline allocation offered by SCE
- Allow the local jurisdiction to finalize and close-out permit
- Allow SCE to inspect the appliances installed
- Follow all other Terms and Conditions of the Pilot.
NOTE: Customers residing in California City may not be able to participate in the Pilot if the combined household income exceeds 400% federal poverty guidelines. This requirement is subject to change, and the Community Energy Navigator will be able to determine whether they are eligible to participate.
SCE is working with a select number of agencies and contractors to provide the various steps in Pilot participation process.
• Community Energy Navigator refers to individuals that represent local community-based
organizations or individuals that serve as community leaders. This is the primary contact for the
Pilot: Self-Help Enterprises.
• Contractor is a licensed professional to perform the assessment of the household and install the
appliances if your home meets the requirements for Pilot participation.
A Community Energy Navigator (CEN) will contact you to begin the participation process. Make sure to save your propane and wood receipts. We’ll use your old and new receipts to estimate your energy savings if you switch to electric appliances.
This program is funded by California utility customers and administered by Southern California Edison under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission. Funds available on a first-come, first-served basis.
