Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Programs

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Receive up to $15,000 in additional benefits when your business saves 500,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) or 10,000 therms.

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Rebates

• Energy Efficiency Business Rebates - Earn cash rebates when you replace existing equipment with newer, high-efficiency equipment.

Incentives

• Energy Efficiency Business Incentives - Earn cash incentives based on the amount of energy saved when you retrofit existing equipment or install new high-efficiency equipment.
• Energy Savings Bid - Design your own incentive plan for your energy-efficiency retrofit projects

Demand Response

• Base Interruptible - Earn monthly bill credits by reducing your power usage to a pre-determined level.
• Capacity Bidding - Earn monthly payments by pledging or “bidding” your power reduction levels.
• Critical Peak Pricing - Earn a year-round rate discount by reducing your power usage on hot summer days.
• Critical Peak Pricing Emergency - Earn an even lower year-round rate discount by reducing your power usage on short notice.
• Summer Saver - Earn an annual credit on your bill by allowing SDG&E to remotely reduce the run-time of your central air conditioner on select hot summer days.
• Technical Assistance and Technology Incentives - Get engineering assistance to reduce your energy demand with SDG&E's demand response or reliability programs.

Customized Savings Plans

• Energy Efficiency Business Incentives - Earn cash incentives based on the amount of energy saved when you retrofit existing equipment or install new high-efficiency equipment.

Interest-free Financing

• Interest-free Financing - Finance the cost of energy-efficient upgrades through your SDG&E bill.

Partnership Programs

• California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation Partnership (CDCR) - stablishes a framework for sustainable, long-term and comprehensive energy management at CDCR institutions.
• California University and College Partnerships - Helps identify and install energy-efficiency projects at colleges and universities.

Third Party Programs

• Comprehensive Industrial Energy Efficiency Program - Offers industrial customers a free facility audit to identify comprehensive energy efficiency solutions that can help you take advantage of our core energy efficiency and demand response opportunities.
• Continuous Energy Improvements - Helps businesses save energy, money and natural resources through a comprehensive analysis of energy use, an energy-management plan and assistance with implementing energy-saving opportunities.
• DemandSMART - Receive recurring payments for reducing energy use on days when there is a high demand for energy.
• Healthcare Energy Efficiency Program - Provides retrofit upgrades for medical office buildings in hospitals and acute care.
• Lodging Energy Efficiency Program - Identifies, audits, and coordinates the implementation of energy efficiency projects in hotel properties. Focuses on core HVAC systems, lighting, plug loads and appliances.
• Mobile Energy Clinic- Sign up for onsite comprehensive energy audits, energy planning assistance and low-cost/no cost energy efficiency improvements for small commercial customers who use less than an average of 100kW per month.
• RCx Retrocommissioning - Provides incentives and training for large commercial customers to achieve energy savings and improved occupant comfort through cost-effective optimization of building performance.
• Premium Efficiency Cooling - Provides incentives and training to contractors and end-users who install qualifying premium efficiency central air conditioning systems in commercial replacement and new construction projects.
• SaveGas - Installs a unique domestic hot water controller technology on the domestic hot water systems in hotels and motels.

Contact Us

For more information about our energy-saving solutions:

• Contact your Account Executive
• Call the Energy Information Center at 1-800-644-6133

*To qualify for a rebate, all purchase invoices or receipts must be dated between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010. All rebate items must be purchased and installed prior to submitting an application for a rebate. Qualifying rebate applications must be postmarked by December 31, 2010 or earlier to be eligible. This program is funded by California utility customers and administered by San Diego Gas & Electric Company under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission. This program may be modified or terminated without prior notice and is provided to qualified customers on a first-come, first-served basis until program funds are no longer available. San Diego Gas & Electric Company is not responsible for any goods or services selected by the customer.