Gary A. Stern, Ph.D.
Managing Director, State Regulatory Operations
January 7, 2021
ADVICE 4389-E
(U 338-E)
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
ENERGY DIVISION
SUBJECT:
Southern California Edison’s Advice Letter Pursuant to Ordering
Paragraph 6 of Decision 20-12-003
PURPOSE
Pursuant to the California Public Utilities Commission’s (Commission or CPUC) Ordering
Paragraph (OP) 6 of Decision (D.)20-12-003, Decision Regarding Petition For Modification Of
Decision 18-06-027 And Providing Direction Regarding Marketing And Outreach Of the
Disadvantaged Communities – Single-Family Solar Homes, Southern California Edison Company
(SCE) submits this Advice Letter (AL) providing anticipated annual budgets for 2021 for
administrative costs needed to support the Disadvantaged Communities-Single-Family Solar
Homes program (DAC-SASH).
BACKGROUND
The DAC-SASH program was created by the Commission in Decision D.18-06-027, Alternate
Decision Adopting Alternatives to Promote Solar Distributed Generation in Disadvantaged
Communities. The program is modeled after the Single-Family Affordable Solar Homes (SASH)
Program that provides assistance in the form of up-front financial incentives towards the
installation of solar generating systems on the homes of low-income residents. The DAC-SASH
program is available to low-income customers who are resident-owners of single-family homes in
disadvantaged communities (DAC) as defined in D.18-06-027.1 The incentives provided through
the DAC-SASH program assist low-income customers in overcoming barriers to onsite solar, such
as a lack of up-front capital or credit needed to finance solar installation.
Under the framework created in D.18-06-027, the DAC-SASH program is run by a single,
statewide Program Administrator (PA) (Grid Alternatives, or GRID) chosen through a competitive
solicitation process held by SCE in 2018 and controlled by the Energy Division (ED).
1
D.18-06-027, Appendix A.
P.O. Box 800
8631 Rush Street
Rosemead, California 91770
(626) 302-9645
Fax (626) 302-6396
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On April 24, 2020, GRID filed a petition for modification of D.18-06-027 requesting the
Commission to adopt various modifications to the DAC-SASH program. In D.20-12-003, the
Commission rejected most of GRID’s requested modification but revised program eligibility to
include California Indian Country, as specified for the Self-Generation Incentive Program, and also
provided directions to the DAC-SASH program administrator and the large electric investor-owned
utilities to enhance consumer outreach and education about the program.
This Advice Letter is in response to Ordering Paragraph 6 of D.20-12-003 which authorizes Pacific
Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), SCE, and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E) to
each submit a Tier 2 advice letter within 30 days of issuance of D.20-12-003 with their proposed
annual budgets for 2021 for reasonable administrative costs needed to support the DAC-SASH
program. The Commission also authorized the utilities to submit such budgets annually, on the
same schedule as the other solar programs addressed in D.18-06-027.
SCE PROPOSED DAC-SASH BUDGET FOR 2021
For 2021, SCE estimates program administration labor costs of $106,848 as well as non-labor
adminstration costs of $42,000 in marketing materials for a total of $148,848. The following Table
1 is SCE’s anticipated spend for labor this year.
Table 1 – 2021 SCE Projected Labor Costs
The labor costs identified in the Table 1 are to support activies that include, but are not limited to,
the following:
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Ongoing management of GRID’s Program Administrator (PA) contract
Ongoing management of utility cofunding activities
Review, processing, and payment of PA administrative invoices
Payment of PA incentive forecast and true-up invoices after ED approval
Responses to program inquiries, data requests, and audit support (as needed)
Review PA’s detail summaries to reconcile quarterly advance and payment
Ongoing coordination with GRID on marketing material preparation and distribution
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Marketing Support of Program Administrator Activities
For 2021, SCE estimates total non-labor administration costs of $42,000 for DAC-SASH. The
costs are generated from coordinated letter and email campaigns, graphics printing, prepaid
postage, and bill insert efforts in support of the PA’s marketing efforts.
As recognized in GRID’s reply comments to the proposed decision of D.20-12-0032, SCE has
voluntarily partnered with GRID to produce and distribute co-branded marketing material to
promote the DAC-SASH program to potential eligible customers in SCE’s service territory. SCE
will continue to support GRID’s efforts in 2021 by producing similar marketing material and
providing GRID additional data as directed in D.20-12-003.
SCE has maintained records of both labor and non-labor support for the DAC-SASH program
since the beginning of the program, and will seek cost recovery at its Energy Resource Recovery
Account (ERRA) proceeding as directed in OP 7 of D.20-12-003.
TIER DESIGNATION
Pursuant to General Order (GO) 96-B, Energy Industry Rule 5.2, this AL is submitted with a Tier 2
designation.
EFFECTIVE DATE
This AL will become effective on February 6, 2021, the 30th calendar day after the date submitted.
NOTICE
Anyone wishing to protest this advice letter may do so by letter via U.S. Mail, facsimile, or
electronically, any of which must be received by the Energy Division and SCE no later than 20
days after the date of this advice letter. Protests should be submitted to:
CPUC, Energy Division
Attention: Tariff Unit
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, California 94102
Email: EDTariffUnit@cpuc.ca.gov
In addition, protests and all other correspondence regarding this advice letter should also be sent
by letter and transmitted via facsimile or electronically to the attention of:
2
Grid Alternative Reply Comments on the Proposed Decision regarding Petition for Modification of
Decision D.18-06-027 … November 30, 2020, pg. 1.
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Gary A. Stern, Ph.D.
Managing Director, State Regulatory Operations
Southern California Edison Company
8631 Rush Street
Rosemead, California 91770
Telephone: (626) 302-9645
Facsimile: (626) 302-6396
Email: AdviceTariffManager@sce.com
Tara S. Kaushik
Managing Director, Regulatory Relations
c/o Karyn Gansecki
601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 2030
San Francisco, California 94102
Facsimile: (415) 929-5544
Email: Karyn.Gansecki@sce.com
There are no restrictions on who may submit a protest. However, the protest shall set forth
specifically the grounds upon which it is based and must be received by the deadline shown
above.
In accordance with General Rule 4 of GO 96-B, SCE is furnishing copies of this AL to the
interested parties shown on the attached GO 96-B and R.14-07-002 service lists. Address
change requests to the GO 96-B service list should be directed to AdviceTariffManager@sce.com
or at (626) 302-3719. For changes to any other service list, please contact the Commission’s
Process Office at (415) 703-2021 or ProcessOffice@cpuc.ca.gov.
Further, in accordance with Public Utilities Code Section 491, notice to the public is hereby given
by submitting and keeping the AL at SCE’s corporate headquarters. To view other SCE AL
submitted with the Commission, log on to SCE’s web site at
http://www.sce.com/wps/portal/home/regulatory/advice-letters.
All questions concerning this AL should be directed to Robert Wright at (626) 302-0531 or by
electronic mail at robert.wright@sce.com.
Southern California Edison Company
/s/ Gary A. Stern
Gary A. Stern, Ph.D.
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Enclosures
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ADVICE LETTER
SUMMARY
ENERGY UTILITY
MUST BE COMPLETED BY UTILITY (Attach additional pages as needed)
Company name/CPUC Utility No.: Southern California Edison Company (U 338-E)
Utility type:
ELC
GAS
PLC
HEAT
ELC = Electric
PLC = Pipeline
WATER
Contact Person: Darrah Morgan
Phone #: (626) 302-2086
E-mail: AdviceTariffManager@sce.com
E-mail Disposition Notice to: AdviceTariffManager@sce.com
EXPLANATION OF UTILITY TYPE
GAS = Gas
WATER = Water
HEAT = Heat
(Date Submitted / Received Stamp by CPUC)
Tier Designation: 2
Advice Letter (AL) #: 4389-E
Subject of AL: Southern California Edison’s Advice Letter Pursuant to Ordering Paragraph 6 of Decision 20-12-003
Keywords (choose from CPUC listing): Compliance
AL Type:
Monthly
Quarterly
Annual
One-Time
Other:
If AL submitted in compliance with a Commission order, indicate relevant Decision/Resolution #:
Decision 20-12-003
Does AL replace a withdrawn or rejected AL? If so, identify the prior AL:
Summarize differences between the AL and the prior withdrawn or rejected AL:
Confidential treatment requested?
Yes
No
If yes, specification of confidential information:
Confidential information will be made available to appropriate parties who execute a
nondisclosure agreement. Name and contact information to request nondisclosure agreement/
access to confidential information:
Resolution required?
Yes
No
Requested effective date: 2/6/21
No. of tariff sheets: -0-
Estimated system annual revenue effect (%):
Estimated system average rate effect (%):
When rates are affected by AL, include attachment in AL showing average rate effects on customer classes
(residential, small commercial, large C/I, agricultural, lighting).
Tariff schedules affected:
None
Service affected and changes proposed1:
Pending advice letters that revise the same tariff sheets: None
1
Discuss in AL if more space is needed.
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Protests and all other correspondence regarding this AL are due no later than 20 days after the date
of this submittal, unless otherwise authorized by the Commission, and shall be sent to:
CPUC, Energy Division
Attention: Tariff Unit
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Email: EDTariffUnit@cpuc.ca.gov
Name: Gary A. Stern, Ph.D.
Title: Managing Director, State Regulatory Operations
Utility Name: Southern California Edison Company
Address: 8631 Rush Street
City: Rosemead
Zip: 91770
State: California
Telephone (xxx) xxx-xxxx: (626) 302-9645
Facsimile (xxx) xxx-xxxx: (626) 302-6396
Email: advicetariffmanager@sce.com
Name: Tara S. Kaushik c/o Karyn Gansecki
Title: Managing Director, Regulatory Relations
Utility Name: Southern California Edison Company
Address: 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 2030
City: San Francisco
State: California
Zip: 94102
Telephone (xxx) xxx-xxxx:
Facsimile (xxx) xxx-xxxx: (415) 929-5544
Email: karyn.gansecki@sce.com
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ENERGY Advice Letter Keywords
Affiliate
Direct Access
Preliminary Statement
Agreements
Disconnect Service
Procurement
Agriculture
ECAC / Energy Cost Adjustment
Qualifying Facility
Avoided Cost
EOR / Enhanced Oil Recovery
Rebates
Balancing Account
Energy Charge
Refunds
Baseline
Energy Efficiency
Reliability
Bilingual
Establish Service
Re-MAT/Bio-MAT
Billings
Expand Service Area
Revenue Allocation
Bioenergy
Forms
Rule 21
Brokerage Fees
Franchise Fee / User Tax
Rules
CARE
G.O. 131-D
Section 851
CPUC Reimbursement Fee
GRC / General Rate Case
Self Generation
Capacity
Hazardous Waste
Service Area Map
Cogeneration
Increase Rates
Service Outage
Compliance
Interruptible Service
Solar
Conditions of Service
Interutility Transportation
Standby Service
Connection
LIEE / Low-Income Energy Efficiency
Storage
Conservation
LIRA / Low-Income Ratepayer Assistance Street Lights
Consolidate Tariffs
Late Payment Charge
Surcharges
Contracts
Line Extensions
Tariffs
Core
Memorandum Account
Taxes
Credit
Metered Energy Efficiency
Text Changes
Curtailable Service
Metering
Transformer
Customer Charge
Customer Owned Generation
Mobile Home Parks
Name Change
Transition Cost
Transmission Lines
Decrease Rates
Non-Core
Transportation Electrification
Demand Charge
Non-firm Service Contracts
Transportation Rates
Demand Side Fund
Nuclear
Undergrounding
Demand Side Management
Oil Pipelines
Voltage Discount
Demand Side Response
PBR / Performance Based Ratemaking
Wind Power
Deposits
Portfolio
Withdrawal of Service
Depreciation
Power Lines
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