CPUC Demand Response Decision

This decision adopts demand response activities and budgets for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison Company (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) (collectively, the utilities) to conduct demand response programs and pilots for the remainder of 2009 through December 31, 2011. This decision approves utility demand response programs, some with modifications from previous years, and authorizes several demand response pilot programs to test new demand response-related technologies and integration of demand response with Advanced Metering Infrastructure systems. This decision also provides funding for evaluation, measurement, and verification of demand response activities, and continues existing cost recovery mechanisms for demand response–related funding. In addition, this decision adopts a new methodology for calculating settlement baselines for certain demand response activities, and adopts rules on concurrent
customer participation in more than one demand response program.

The total adopted budget for all three utilities’ demand response programs for 2009-2011 is $349,509,463. This decision adopts a budget of $188,806,349 for SCE, of which approximately $38.8 million will support the aggregator contracts adopted in this decision. The total adopted budget for PG&E is $109,060,072, and the total adopted budget for SDG&E is $51,643,042. With the adoption of this decision, this proceeding is closed.