Peak Day Pricing Program

2022 Season

Save money for your business and help keep California’s energy supply reliable for everyone

CleanPowerSF’s Peak Day Pricing (PDP) Program rewards businesses for reducing electricity use between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. on six to twelve PDP “Event Days” from July 1 - October 31.

Typically, Event Days occur on the hottest days of the summer in Northern California. CleanPowerSF will only call Event Days on weekdays; holidays and weekends will be excluded.

CleanPowerSF’s Peak Day Pricing Program is risk-free. While participation is highly encouraged, if your account is not able to reduce electricity use during Event Days, you will not be penalized or have to pay any fees.

Enrollment for the 2022 Season is now closed. Enrollment for next year will begin mid-2023!

Event Day Forecast

Participation

For 2022, participants:

  • Must have service agreements on E-19, B-19, E-20 or B-20 rate schedules

  • Can be Green or SuperGreen customers

  • May not be net-energy metered (NEM) or standby accounts

  • Must have been an enrolled CleanPowerSF customer as of July 15, 2022

  • Must not be enrolled in other demand response programs except for PG&E’s Emergency Load Response Program (ELRP)*

* Dual-enrolling in both CleanPowerSF’s PDP Program and PG&E’s ELRP may allow your building to further contribute to electric grid stability in California and increase incentives earned during the 2022 season. See the PDP Program Details page for more information.

Participation in the Peak Day Pricing Program is voluntary. You may cancel your enrollment in the program at any time; however, your account must remain in the program until the end of the program season (July 1 - October 31) to earn a bill credit. CleanPowerSF reserves the right to limit participation to 50 service agreements for the 2022 Peak Day Pricing Program.

How it works

During the program season you will continue to be charged your standard CleanPowerSF electric rate with no difference in monthly billing.

After the end of the program season, CleanPowerSF will calculate whether your account’s electricity usage pattern resulted in an incentive.

CleanPowerSF’s end-of-season PDP calculation works as follows:

  • CleanPowerSF will calculate the “PDP baseline” for all Event Days. For details on how the PDP baseline is calculated, please see the PDP Program Details page.

  • CleanPowerSF then calculates the total amount of electric load reductions your account achieved for all Event Days for the season. These electric load reductions are calculated by subtracting the actual electric load during a PDP Event Day from the applicable baseline.

  • Your account’s total electric load reduction is then multiplied by the per-kWh incentive rate of $1.50/kWh.

  • By adding up the results, CleanPowerSF will determine your account’s base incentive for the program season.

Bonus Incentive: CleanPowerSF will provide a significant bonus incentive to reward customers that participate frequently. If your account achieved a load reduction during more than 75% of the program’s event-hours, CleanPowerSF will apply the bonus rate of $1.00/kWh to your account’s season total load reduction on top of the standard incentive rate (a total of $2.50/kWh for the entire season’s load reduction tally). Eligibility for the bonus incentive is dependent on total program-event hours, including Event Days that were called prior to when you enrolled (if your account enrolled after July 1, 2022).

No risk for participating

Bill Credit

If you have managed your account’s electricity to achieve load reduction, then the account will earn a one-time bill credit.

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risk-free participation

Participating in the Peak Day Pricing Program is risk-free. If your account was not able to reduce load throughout the season, your account will not receive any bill adjustments or be subject to any financial penalties or additional charges.

Event Day Notifications

CleanPowerSF will call the same Event Days as PG&E, except for weekends and holidays. CleanPowerSF may call supplementary Event Days independently of PG&E if CleanPowerSF determines additional Event Days are necessary based on alert notifications by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), or based on market or weather conditions. All Event Days will be posted on our PDP webpage. In addition to our PDP webpage alert status, CleanPowerSF will take reasonable actions to provide notice to participating customers via email and/or text message on the afternoon before an Event Day. If CleanPowerSF fails to announce an Event Day on its website before 5 p.m. the day prior, the day will not be treated by CleanPowerSF as an Event Day. Cancelled Event Days will count toward the maximum of twelve Event Days.

CleanPowerSF may call voluntary Event Days through November 30, 2022 based on alert notifications by the CAISO, or based on weather or market conditions. Participation in these events is entirely voluntary and does not impact program incentives.

PDP Incentives

At the end of the program season, CleanPowerSF will calculate performance payments, and will issue a bill credit to customers that have earned an incentive.

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