{"id":6296,"date":"2018-05-18T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portal.solar.com\/learn\/battery-sgip-tiers-fill-and-rebates-drop\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T12:57:22","slug":"battery-sgip-tiers-fill-and-rebates-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solar.com\/learn\/battery-sgip-tiers-fill-and-rebates-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"California SGIP Home Battery Incentive Tiers Fill and Rebates Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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California was a dark place (sometimes) in 2000 and 2001. The sunny state was experiencing power blackouts due to demand overload on the grid.<\/p>\n

The Self Generation Incentive Program (SGIP)<\/a> was introduced to encourage more distributed power sources and storage, for a more resilient grid.<\/p>\n

Essentially, we needed to take a load off the grid — fast. The best way to do this was by incentivizing different means of creating and storing energy in distributed ways.<\/p>\n

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SGIP was the solution. The program has changed a lot since its inception, becoming more inclusive of new technologies such as battery storage.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the SGIP allocated 75 percent of the total budget for energy storage, such as a home solar backup battery. This and other revisions have made rebates more available for residential homeowners who were squeezed out by commercial storage customers in earlier versions of the plan.<\/p>\n

The rebate structure is set up in five tiers or steps, which descends by $0.05\/Wh or $0.10\/Wh (depending on demand within the first 10 days of a step\u2019s availability).<\/p>\n

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SGIP 2018 Status: Rebates are Dropping and Completing<\/h2>\n

Four utilities offer incentive rates: San Diego Gas and Electric (SDGE), Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Southern California Electric (SCE), and Southern California Gas (SCG).<\/p>\n

The SGIP is one of the longest-running self-generation programs in the country and is hugely successful. In fact, SDGE is already in step 5 (the final phase of the program) due to high demand.<\/strong> When step 1 was released, SDGE sold out<\/a> of both residential and commercial project budget limits within 24 hours!<\/p>\n

As of April 30, 2018, SDGE had to open a waitlist<\/a> for homeowners applying for home battery installation rebates. This was set up to happen when the program budget was completely allocated, during the final step.<\/p>\n

According to the SGIP handbook, when there is enough attrition to fund waitlisted projects, they will be assigned an incentive rate in the last step and reviewed in the order in which they were submitted. People on the waitlist will have their applications funded as money becomes available throughout the rest of the program.<\/p>\n

Of the four utilities, the latest update on the program metrics shows:<\/p>\n