All of the Self Generation Incentive Program funding for Renewable/Emerging project category has been fully allocated for the 2012 program year. The waitlist limit for the Renewable/Emerging category has also been reached; no more Renewable/Emerging applications will be accepted for 2012. If you have a Renewable or Emerging SGIP project, additional funds will be made available on January 1st, 2013. The Non-renewable project applications are still accepted until our available budget for the Non-renewable category is exhausted.
About the Self Generation Incentive Program
The Self Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) was initially conceived of as a peak-load reduction program in response to the energy crisis of 2001. Assembly Bill 970 (Ducheny, 2000) designed the Program as a complement to the California Energy Commissions’ Emerging Renewables Program, which focused on smaller systems than the SGIP. Since 2001, the SGIP has evolved significantly. On September 8, 2011 D11-09-015 SGIP modified SGIP to conform to Senate Bill 412 (Kehoe, 2009) the modifications to SGIP now include:
- Eligibility based on Greenhouse Gas emissions reductions.
- Expanded the portfolio of eligible technologies
- Payment structure
- Systems under 30kW will receive 100% incentive upon completion
- Systems ≥30kW will receive payment based on performance (PBI)
- 10 year warranty requirement
- Energy Efficiency Audit
- Export to Grid
- In-state Biogas only
- Minimum customer investment
For more detailed information on all the modifications see D 11-09-015.
Eligible technologies are grouped into three incentive levels shown below:
| Technology Type | Incentive ($/W) |
| Renewable and Waste Energy Capture | |
| Wind Turbine | $1.25 |
| Waste Heat to Power | $1.25 |
| Pressure Reduction Turbine | $1.25 |
| Conventional CHP | |
| Internal Combustion Engine — CHP | $0.50 |
| Microturbine — CHP | $0.50 |
| Gas Turbine — CHP | $0.50 |
| Emerging technologies | |
| Advanced Energy Storage | $2.00 |
| Biogas | $2.00 |
| Fuel Cell — CHP or Electric Only | $2.25 |
For projects that are greater than 1 MW up to 3 MW, the incentive declines according to the table below:
Capacity |
Incentive Rate (Percent of Base) |
| 0 - 1 MW | 100% |
| 1 - 2 MW | 50% |
| 2 - 3 MW | 25% |
Who is eligible?
Retail electric and gas customers of Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), Pacific Gas & Electric, or Southern California Edison are eligible to participate in the SGIP.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Host customer’s facility must be a customer of SoCalGas.
- Equipment must be new, commercially available, and permanently installed .
- Equipment must be connected to the grid.
- Must offset a portion or a single facility’s entire electric load.
- Electric load cannot be on interruptible rate schedules (such as SCE I-6) or load management programs.
- Applicants cannot apply to two or more administrators for funding for the same project. This also applies to the CEC Emerging Renewable Technology Buy Down Program.
How to apply
Are you ready to apply for funds? If so, follow these steps to reserve your funding.
Are there still funds available?
Program Forms and Regulations
For your convenience, we have provided electronic versions of many regulation documents and forms that will be needed throughout the application process.
Program Modification
Parties interested in proposing changes to the Working Group and the CPUC must follow the process described in the Program Modification Guidelines. This process is used to propose new technologies or SGIP rule changes.Questions
For more information, contact us at 1-866-DG-REBATE or email selfgeneration@socalgas.com.
Updated 5/2012