Resources for Savings and Service

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Check out some of the latest energy and environmental technologies worth considering for your own facility or line of work.

• Tours* are available and include highlights such as the Smart Home, the lobby, solar technologies and the fast-charge system for electric vehicles.
• The Food Service Demonstration Kitchen features four cooking lines and about 50 pieces of commercial-grade, energy-efficient equipment for food-service professionals to test and compare.
• Borrow tools or books and DVDs for energy-efficiency projects from the Resource and Tool Lending Library.
• Host your event or seminar for your business at the Energy Innovation Center.

Open: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: 4760 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, CA 92117.

To schedule a tour or to test kitchen equipment, call 1-800-613-8970. For additional information, or to learn more about hosting your business event or seminar at the Energy Innovation Center, visit

*Tours available by appointment only

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Workshops and Training

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Our hands-on workshops and trainings can help you expand your knowledge of business energy solutions, improve operations, and increase your profit potential.

Trade Professional Online Directory

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Click on your preferences in our Trade Professional Member Alliance Directory and find qualified, local contractors who can identify energy-saving projects. Electricians, heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) specialists, engineers and general contractors, meet certain eligibility criteria and have a good understanding of our business rebates, incentives and financing programs. Working with them may help increase your savings and shorten your payback period.

If you’re a Trade Professional, and would like to be listed in the directory, visit sdge.com/tradepro for more information.

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Convenient payment options

 

Paying online, by phone, setting up an electronic funds transfer from your bank, using a credit card/debit card/ATM card, by mail or at a branch office are some of the ways you can pay your bill. To learn more visit sdge.com/business and click “Payment Options.”

• Pay online at sdge.com/MyAccount. With My Account, you can also link, view and pay multiple bills at the same time and see up to 25 months of account activity and energy use information.

• Even out your payments by signing up for our Level Pay Plan at sdge.com/lpp. It’s an easy way to make your energy bills more predictable.

• Need extra time to pay your bill? You may make payment arrangements online through My Account at sdge.com/MyAccount or by calling the Business Contact Center at 1-800-336-7343 before the past-due notice expires.

0% interest loans for qualifying businesses

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Need help funding a qualifying energy-efficiency improvement? Check out our On-Bill Financing Program where interest-free monthly loan installments appear on your SDG&E® bill and are calculated to be offset by the estimated energy cost savings.

Statewide Financing Options

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California also has eligible energy-efficiency measures that may qualify for favorable new financing options available through third-party lenders, such as on-bill repayment loans and off-bill equipment leasing.

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On an Event Day, when electric supplies are anticipated to be low, businesses have the opportunity to earn incentives by reducing their consumption by the amount they pledged prior to the beginning of the month.

Key benefits (three programs)

Day Of - 30 minute notification and

Day of- notified by 9:00 am

• Day of – 30 minute notification only: Higher incentives to reduce electricity use with only 30 minutes notice on Event Days.
• Both programs: Choose 4, 6 or 8 hourly event options for energy-reduction period.
• Both programs: Participation (and incentive) is through an Aggregator. On Event Days the Aggregator submits, from their list of participating businesses, a single aggregated bid (energy reduction amount).

Day Ahead

• More time to plan for energy-reduction period, but only eligible for an incentive for the time that the Event Day was called.
• Choose 4, 6 or 8 hourly event options for energy reduction period.

Qualifications/eligibility

• Must have IDR or smart meter.

How to participate

Choose from participating Aggregator list at sdge.com/cbp

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Incentives for businesses to permanently shift their on-peak load to off-peak using Thermal Energy Storage Systems.

Qualifications/eligibility

These incentives are open to all SDG&E customers who must:

• Be on a Time-of-Use (TOU) rate.
• Have an SDG&E smart meter or an approved interval meter.

How to participate

Visit sdge.com/pls to learn more and to complete the Permanent Load Shifting application

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Install a Summer Saver device on your HVAC unit and on select summer days, when electricity use is at its peak, your Summer Saver device activates to cycle your HVAC unit on and off. This helps maintain a safe and reliable grid.

Key benefits

• Customers have two options when they enroll:
  50% cycling
  –  Receive up to a $7.50 per ton bill credit for each A/C.
  –  Your air conditioning run time is reduced by 50% of the hour previous to the conservation period.
  30% cycling
  – Receive up to a $4.50 per ton bill credit for each A/C.
  – Your air conditioning run-time is reduced by 30% of the hour previous to the conservation period.

Qualifications/eligibility

• To qualify, customers can’t exceed usage of 100 kW at any point in a 12-month period.
• Summer Saver is only used May through October. It may be used as little as one or two days, but will never be used more than 15 days.

How to participate

To apply or learn more visit
sdge.com/SummerSaverBiz.

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“We participate in the Time-of-Use Plus Pricing Plan which has a critical peak pricing component. When it’s hot outside and there’s a demand on our load we increase the temperatures in our classrooms by up to 4 degrees. We have over 140 air conditioning units that we can control via computer. We’ve saved over $20,000 a year by participating.”

—Sal Aiello, Director of Facilities — Cathedral Catholic High School

It matters when you use energy

This rate provides businesses with an opportunity to manage their electricity costs by either reducing load during expensive pricing periods or shifting load from high-cost pricing periods to lower-cost pricing periods. Critical Peak Pricing Event Days (a maximum of 18 can be called a year) are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. A maximum of 18 of these Critical Peak Pricing Event Days can be called annually.

Understanding capacity reservation

You can self-select an amount of electricity use (in kW) that you want to protect from the high price of electricity during a CPP event and pay for it through a fixed monthly Capacity Reservation Charge (CRC).

Qualifications/eligibility

Businesses on a commercial/industrial rate schedule whose maximum monthly demand is equal to, or exceeds, or is expected to equal or exceed 20 kW for twelve consecutive months (e.g. schedule AL-TOU).

How to Participate

To enroll in CPPD please log into sdge.com/MyAccount, contact your Account Executive or the Business Contact Center at 1-800-336-7343.

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Small- and mid-sized businesses receive no-cost, technical assistance so they can make educated choices about the options available to help them finance current or new energy-efficient projects (such as facility retrofits, gut rehabs, equipment upgrades and new construction projects).

Key benefits

• Energy audits and technical assistance to identify energy-efficiency opportunities and measure cash-flow analysis.
• Referrals for businesses considering energy-efficiency projects and not already working with a lender.

Eligibility

• You must qualify for a participating small business lending product or a Small Business Administration Loan.
• Project applications must be submitted and approved prior to any construction work or material purchases.

How to participate

• Contact your Account Executive.
• Visit sdge.com/eap for more information.

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“Due to SDG&E’s 0% On-Bill Financing and rebate programs, there were almost no out-of- pocket costs when we installed LED sports lighting. This, coupled with the success of the project, made it easier to proceed with other energy- efficiency projects such as:

• Replacement of ice machines and refrigerators
• Demand Response automatic controls”

— Mark Guglielmo, Vice President, Ballpark Operations & General Manager, Petco Park

— Randy McWilliams, Senior Director of Facilities & Engineering, Petco Park

Businesses, like Petco Park, can offset some of the cost of the eligible equipment by installing energy-efficient lighting, refrigeration, food service, natural gas and other technologies.

Key benefits

• Installing energy-efficient equipment in a business can help reduce energy consumption and operating expenses, which leads to greater profitability, productivity and efficiency.
• Provide savings, which can be invested back into the business and may help boost morale.

Eligibility

• Business customers who receive natural gas and/or electric services from SDG&E.
• Visit sdge.com/eebr for additional qualifications and/or eligibility.

How to participate

• Online application at sdge.com/eebr.
• Call the Energy Savings Center at 1-800-644-6133.

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“A Trade Professional was sent to inspect the performance of our equipment and recommend any energy improvements and upgrades that could help maximize our savings. The decision to move forward with the project was easy after we learned that:

• SDG&E incentives helped defray the cost of the project by 25%.
• SDG&E’s On-Bill Financing Program allowed us to convert the remaining 75% into a manageable project that will be paid off with 0% interest in 55 installments.”

- Patty Ungar DVM, CVA/Owner Kensington Veterinary Hospital

A one-stop shop program that begins with a no-cost, energy audit and helps small- and mid-sized businesses all the way through installation.

Key benefits

• Less stress choosing contractors: The SDG&E authorized contractor stays with the project from the beginning to the end, including recycling old equipment.
• Save time and money: Minimal paperwork and instant rebates.
• Professional recommendations: Trade Professional will make recommendations based on size and scope of the project.

Eligibility

• Business customers whose monthly electrical demand does not exceed 200kW per premise during the most recent 12-month period.
• Visit sdge.com/bes for additional qualifications and/or eligibility.

How to participate

• Complete the interest form at sdge.com/bes.

Energy use at a glance

• The majority of electricity use comes from dry-cleaning machines and reciprocating equipment (such as air compressors, motors and lighting).
• A steam trap with a valve stuck half-open for half a year can result in an annual fuel cost of over $4,000.
• Dry cleaning machines use a lot of energy, ranging from .5 kW and greater (per machine), and put off a lot of excess heat, which increases the cooling load in a given space.

Tips & strategies to help save

• Professional wet cleaning is by far the most energy efficient of the five different cleaning techniques. Switching to wet cleaning could save as much as 75% of the electricity a dry cleaner uses.
• Avoid usage of high-energy equipment during on-peak time periods and consider staggered start-up every 15 minutes.
• Implement a chilled water loop system to reduce waste heat from pipes and to cool the pipes themselves, which is an efficient way to reduce the cooling load within a space.
• A poorly maintained air compressor system can waste between 25% and 35% of its air due to leaks alone.

– Turn off air compressor at the end of every shift/day; at the very least, consider closing the flow valve off to prevent leakage.f

• Install controls on boilers, such as vent (or flue) dampers that prevent chimney losses by closing off a boiler’s vent when the boiler isn’t firing.

Actual savings may vary and will depend on various factors, including geographic location, weather conditions, equipment installed, usage rates and similar factors.

Types of businesses in this category include tanning salons, tattoo parlors, saunas, steam baths, ear piercing services, hair removal and weaving salons.

Energy use at a glance

The best places to save, while keeping it comfortable for your customers, would be lighting and cooling.

Tips and strategies to help save

• 54-watt T5 fluorescent lamps work well for high-bay applications, while 27-watt T5s work well for most other uses.
• Consider installing motion-activated occupancy sensors in areas that aren’t used by clients or employees; such as bathrooms and utility closets.
• Install reflective window film to reduce solar heat gain and help keep cooling costs down. Newer window films are not as dark or iridescent-looking as older window films, so building occupants can see outside on most days.
• Use washing machines during off-peak hours, when electricity prices are the lowest. Buy enough towels for use during business hours so laundry can be done at night. Use front-loading washing machines with high-speed spin cycles to save water and energy used for drying.
• Gas dryers and natural gas-fired heaters cost less to run than electric clothes dryers and water heaters.
• When buying new equipment that use a lot of energy, such as hood hair dryers, consider wattage and performance.

Actual savings may vary and will depend on various factors, including geographic location, weather conditions, equipment installed, usage rates and similar factors.