San Diego Community Power’s new Solar Battery Savings Program is a customer-focused program designed to support single-family homeowners in our service territory who are ready to invest in clean energy and support the grid by installing solar and battery storage on their homes or complement an existing solar system with a new battery storage system.
The program provides two financial incentives for participating customers: an upfront incentive (in the form of a rebate) to minimize the initial cost of the battery system and a performance incentive for a daily dispatch of the battery to maximize benefits for the customer and the grid.
The 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 the on-peak periods.
With this program, solar and battery installation is more affordable for SDCP customer households.
Program incentives are available to qualifying SDCP customers in two tiers; Market Rate and Non-market Rate as noted in the table below:
Market Rate
Non-Market Rate:
CARE/FERA & Communities of Concern
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
$0
$450/kW-AC¹
$350/kWh
nameplate useable capacity
Up to $500/kWh²
nameplate useable capacity
$0.10/kWh
(based on actual performance over the preset dispatch window during on-peak periods)
Daily
(weekday only or weekday + weekend)
2 hours
(for calendar year 2024 & 2025)
Participants can select the percentage of their battery’s useable capacity to enroll in the program, with a minimum requirement of 50%
Battery can underperform by up to 10% of the total enrolled capacity per month
There will be a prorated claw back associated with the upfront incentive if the participant chooses to unenroll within the first five years
SDCP customers that meet the following criteria are eligible for this program:
If you are a contractor interested in participating, please use this link to apply. On this application page, you will also be asked to upload a signed version of the agreement found here.
The following contractors have been approved and trained by SDCP, to market the Solar Battery Savings Program to customers:
If you are a battery manufacturer interested in having your product(s) approved in this program, please use this link to apply.
On this application page, you will also be asked to upload a signed version of the agreement found here.
The following battery products have been approved for the Solar Battery Savings Program. View the full list of approved manufacturers and batteries here.
Answers to our most frequently asked questions can be found below.
The full program details for SDCP’s Solar Battery Savings Program can be reviewed here.