CPUC Further Expands Energy Programs in Advance of Next Wildfire Season
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Today's decision approves an SGIP annual budget of
The decision focuses the program on energy storage projects that serve customers with medical needs and impacted communities during PSPS events. The program targets Tier 2 and Tier 3 high fire threat districts, where there is "extreme" and "elevated" risk of fire and disadvantaged and low income customers, medically vulnerable households, critical services facilities, and low income solar program customers. The decision also extends eligibility to customers affected by at least two prior PSPS events. The program sets aside63 percent to fund equity/resiliency projects; 12 percent for renewable generation projects; 10 percent for large scale storage projects; 7 percent for residential projects; 5 percent for heat pump water heaters; and 3 percent for residential equity projects.
Additionally, the decision expands the list of customers who are eligible for the equity/resiliency incentives to include customers relying on wells with electric pumps, small grocery stores and markets,food banks, and independent living centers.
Furthermore, to help identify eligible customers, electric investor-owned utilities will provide a method for all customers to identity the electric circuit they are on, and to verify if they were subject to two or more PSPS events. The utilities will also publish up-to-date lists of all circuits that had two or more PSPS events.
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The new heat pump water heater incentives will greatly assist in reducing GHG emissions and play an important role in electrification efforts by replacing higher GHG emission natural gas water heaters with water heaters using electricity that is increasingly renewable. A very large number of water heaters are replaced every year, so it is important to start transforming that market as soon as possible.
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The SGIP was established in 2001 to increase deployment of distributed generation and energy storage systems to facilitate the integration of those resources into the electrical grid, improve efficiency and reliability of the distribution and transmission system, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, peak demand, and ratepayer costs.
For more information on the Self-Generation Incentive Program, please visitwww.cpuc.ca.gov/sgip.
The proposal voted on is available athttp://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M324/K879/324879972.PDF.
Documents related to this proceeding are available at: https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/apex/f?p=401:56:0::NO:RP,57,RIR:P5_PROCEEDING_SELECT:R1211005.
The CPUC regulates services and utilities, safeguards the environment, and assures Californians' access to safe and reliable utility infrastructure and services. For more information on the CPUC, please visit www.cpuc.ca.gov.
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