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San Diego Community Power Solar Battery Savings Program

Making home battery installation more affordable for SDCP customers

Solar Battery Savings Program 

Panasonic EVERVOLT is an approved home battery for San Diego Community Power’s Solar Battery Savings Program for single-family homeowners. Whether installing a new solar and storage system or adding battery storage to your existing solar panels, you can lower your upfront investment and ongoing monthly energy bills with two substantial financial incentives. 
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Lower battery installation costs for participants

This program offers two financial incentives for participating SDCP customers:  

  1. An upfront incentive (via a rebate) to reduce initial battery system costs  

  2. A performance incentive for a daily dispatch of the battery to maximize benefits for the customer and the grid1

1The performance incentive is based on the percentage of battery capacity that a participant dispatches to their home and/or to the grid during a preset window that aligns with on-peak periods. 

Upfront incentives

Upfront program incentives are available to qualifying SDCP customers in two tiers,
Market Rate and Non-market Rate as shown below:   

Customer Types Market Rate Non-Market Rate: CARE/FERA & Communities of Concern
Customer Type Definition Any and all customers that are not registered with CARE/FERA and/or are not in a Community of Concern Customers that are registered with CARE/FERA and/or are in a Community of Concern¹
Upfront Solar Incentive $0 $450/kW-AC²
Upfront Battery Storage Incentive $350/kWh nameplate useable capacity Up to $500/kWh³ nameplate useable capacity

Ongoing performance incentives

Ongoing performance incentives are applicable to both Market Rate and Non-market Rate tiers:
Performance Battery Storage Incentive $0.10/kWh (based on actual performance over the preset dispatch window during on-peak periods)
# of Events Daily (weekday only or weekday + weekend)
Event Duration 2 hours (for calendar year 2024 & 2025)
Battery Enrollment Participants can select the percentage of their battery’s useable capacity to enroll in the program, with a minimum requirement of 50%
Underperformance Battery can underperform by up to 10% of the total enrolled capacity per month
Unenrollment in Program There will be a prorated claw back associated with the upfront incentive if the participant chooses to unenroll within the first five years

1Community of Concern

2Up to based on if participant is eligible for other solar incentives, i.e., SGIP, DAC-SASH and City of San Diego’s Solar Equity Program

3Up to based on if the participant is eligible for other upfront storage incentives, i.e., SGIP 

What are the benefits of a home battery?

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    Support your local utility grid

    Energy demand is often at its highest during the “On-Peak” period. Discharging your battery during that time, helps support the local utility grid and your community.

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    Leverage credits

    Discharge your battery between 4 pm and 9 pm and earn higher credits for excess battery power you send back to the grid.

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    Reduce your energy bill

    Use your home battery during the “On-Peak” period between 4 pm and 9 pm, to lower your utility bill when energy costs are higher.

  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-1

    Receive ongoing incentives

    As a program participant you can leverage an additional $0.10/kWh during the daily dispatch window whether your battery is being used to power your home or going back to the utility grid.

  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-2

    Support your local utility grid

    Energy demand is often at its highest during the “On-Peak” period. Discharging your battery during that time, helps support the local utility grid and your community.

  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-3-1

    Leverage credits

    Discharge your battery between 4 pm and 9 pm and earn higher credits for excess battery power you send back to the grid.

  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-4-1

    Reduce your energy bill

    Use your home battery during the “On-Peak” period between 4 pm and 9 pm, to lower your utility bill when energy costs are higher.

  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-1

    Receive ongoing incentives

    As a program participant you can leverage an additional $0.10/kWh during the daily dispatch window whether your battery is being used to power your home or going back to the utility grid.

What are the benefits of a home battery?

  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-2-420x240

    Support your local utility grid

    Energy demand is often at its highest during the “On-Peak” period. Discharging your battery during that time, helps support the local utility grid and your community.
  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-3-420x240

    Leverage credits

    Discharge your battery between 4 pm and 9 pm and earn higher credits for excess battery power you send back to the grid.
  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-1-420x240

    Reduce your energy bill

    Use your home battery during the “On-Peak” period between 4 pm and 9 pm, to lower your utility bill when energy costs are higher.
  • RS24181WEB-SanDiegoCommunitySoalrSavings-Website-4-420x240

    Receive ongoing incentives

    As a program participant you can leverage an additional $0.10/kWh during the daily dispatch window whether your battery is being used to power your home or going back to the utility grid.

How can you benefit by adding a home battery?

  • Reduce your energy bill

    Use your home battery during the “On-Peak” period between 4 pm and 9 pm, to lower your utility bill when energy costs are higher.

  • Leverage credits

    Discharge your battery between 4 pm and 9 pm and earn higher credits for excess battery power you send back to the grid.

  • Receive ongoing incentives

    As a program participant you can leverage an additional $0.10/kWh during the daily dispatch window whether your battery is being used to power your home or going back to the utility grid.

  • Support your local utility rid

    Energy demand is often at its highest during the “On-Peak” period. Discharging your battery during that time, helps support the local utility grid and your community

Program eligibility 

SDCP customers must meet the following criteria to enroll in this program: 

  1. Must be an active SDCP residential customer.  
  2. Customers who have opted out must return to SDCP to be eligible. 
  3. System equipment must be interconnected and permitted by the appropriate local permitting jurisdiction. 
  4. Battery must be fully charged by on-site solar (no grid charging allowed). 
  5. Battery cannot simultaneously be participating (or enrolling) in any other active demand response programs (e.g., emergency load relief program (“ELRP”), demand side grid support (“DSGS”)). 
  6. Battery systems must be installed after the SDCP application is submitted.  
  7. The interconnection application must be dated after the contractor has been approved for the program. Please note, as we will not be able to check for that until the PTO letter is received. 

Download SDCP Program Manual  

Full program details for SDCP’s Solar Battery Savings Program can be reviewed here.
Visit the SDCP program website here. 

Terms and Conditions

Battery program Terms and Conditions can be downloaded here.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Approved contractors will be applying for this program on behalf of their customers. If you are interested, we suggest you check our website for a list of approved contractors. Once you have selected an approved contractor and chosen an approved battery, your contractor will help you sign and submit the Community Power Participant application as part of your contracting process. Community Power will notify you and your contractor upon approval to proceed with permitting, interconnection application, procuring materials and installation. 

  • Your contractor should be able to support you in figuring out how much to discharge during the dispatch window based on your historical energy consumption. Your battery is set to discharge to your home first and any excess will go back to the grid, so you don’t need to worry about dividing up your battery energy between your home and the grid – the performance incentive will be applied whether the battery is discharging to your home or the grid.  

    Average customers participating in the minimum 50%, will have their batteries discharging more than their site is consuming so energy will be going back to the grid. 

  • Yes. You have the option to select how much of your battery you’d like to enroll in the program, with a minimum 50% of usable capacity to qualify for participation. So if you select to enroll 50%, you will have 50% usable capacity remaining to use as you’d like each day. 

     

  • Yes. If you are an existing solar (NEM) customer and interested in expanding your system and adding battery storage you are eligible for the upfront and performance incentives. 

  • Currently, the program is only offered for new batteries, but keep an eye on the SDCP webpage as they may allow existing batteries to leverage the performance incentive at a later date. 

  • If you choose to unenroll within the first five years of participation, we will recover a prorated amount of the upfront incentive and you will forfeit all future performance incentives. If you stay in the program for at least five years, you can keep the upfront incentive and only forfeit future performance incentives remaining over the 10-year life of the battery. 

  • No. Enrolling in Community Power’s Solar Battery Savings program does not have an impact on federal tax incentives or SGIP and can be stacked on top of those incentives to further lower the cost of the system. This program does not allow for enrollment in any other active dispatch programs, like the Emergency Load Relief Program (“ELRP”) or Demand Side Grid Support (“DSGS”).