Working Together With PG&E, Customers Are Finding New, Better Ways to Save Energy and Help Support Grid Reliability This Summer
So Far This Year, 245,000 Individuals and Businesses Have Answered the Call to Save Energy and Help Support California’s Grid
In all, approximately 245,000 industrial, business and residential customers have enrolled in a variety of demand-response programs. All told, these programs have a potential to provide approximately 365.8 megawatts of load-reduction capacity. roughly enough electricity for the instantaneous demand of about 275,000 homes.
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And customers who participate in these DR programs acknowledge and understand their value.
“The Farmers’
"With operational constraints that don't allow us to completely avoid on-peak TOU, demand response gives us a flexible option to contribute when we can,” said
“As a high-volume user of electricity,
And, at Ardent Mills, “our core values are trust, serving, simplicity and safety, and being enrolled in the Base Interruptible Program through
Energy Incentive Programs for Business, Residential Customers
There is a plethora of energy-reduction incentive programs for both business customers and residential customers.
For business customers, for example, there is:
- Peak Day Pricing: Business customers get discounted rates throughout the year, except during nine to 15 “events” (four-hour blocks) when the electric system is strained, and rates are higher. Events typically occur on the hottest days of summer.
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Base Interruptible Program: Business customers with an average maximum demand of at least 100 kilowatts (kW) earn a monthly incentive for reducing energy consumption to prescribed levels when called upon. The Base Interruptible Program has been expanded to year-round enrollment, increasing the incentive to participate in the program by
/kW-month.$1.50 - Capacity Bidding Program. Business customers work with third-party programs to create a plan that allows you more flexibility in deciding how you can earn incentives by reducing your energy usage when called upon. The Capacity Bidding Program has expanded to weekends and is implementing other changes that incentivize third-party companies to sign-up even more new customers for their programs to provide greater load reductions during grid emergencies.
- Emergency Load Reduction Program and the California State Emergency Program. Both are voluntary programs that offer positive incentives with no penalties, what’s described as a “all carrot, no stick” approach to mitigate the impacts of capacity shortfalls.
Residential customers can participate in:
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SmartAC. Customers get
and a free air-conditioning checkup. The program is free and helps prevent power interruptions.$50 - SmartRate. Allows customers to take control of their electric rate and help conserve power when needed most. PG&E’s Bill Protection guarantee for the first full summer season means residential customers can try it risk free.
“We’re all in this together –
Importantly, helping conserve energy isn’t just the job of customers who sign up to participate in DR programs.
During heat waves in 2020 and 2021, where the reliability of the grid was in jeopardy,
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