SCE Customers Get $59 Credits on April Bills Thanks to State Program for Fighting Climate Change
April 13 2022 - 2:02PM
Business Wire
Joining residential customers, SCE small
business accounts will also begin seeing credits on their bills
twice each year
Southern California Edison’s residential customers will receive
a $59 California Climate Credit on their April and October billing
statements. For the first time since the credit’s inception in
2014, most of SCE’s small business customers will receive the
credit on their statements as well.
Previously, the twice-a-year credit ranged between $29 and $40
for SCE residential customers. Recent direction from the California
Public Utilities Commission led to small business customers of the
state’s investor-owned utilities also receiving the credit twice
annually. About 500,000 of SCE’s small business accounts are
eligible, as well as the company’s 4.3 million residential
accounts.
The funding for the California Climate Credit comes from the
state’s Greenhouse Gas Cap and Trade Program, which aims to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, natural gas
distributors and other large industries.
“It’s great to see that this year’s credit is the most generous
to date,” said Lisa D. Cagnolatti, SCE’s senior vice president of
Customer Service. “With rising consumer prices creating challenges
for many Californians, SCE welcomes any opportunity to help
customers with their electric bill. That’s why SCE offers customers
a range of short-term and longer-term bill assistance options.”
Earlier this year, SCE distributed more than $205 million in
debt relief from the California Arrearage Payment Program to help
customers with past-due energy bill balances accrued during the
first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. About 260,000 eligible
SCE residential customers received one-time credits on their
February or March electric bills to partially reduce their energy
debts.
Other SCE customer assistance options include:
- Monthly bill discounts of 30% (California Alternate Rates for
Energy program) or 18% (Family Electric Rate Assistance program),
or one-time bill assistance grants of up to $100 (Energy Assistance
Fund) for income-qualified residential customers.
- Energy bill debt forgiveness of up to $8,000 in eligible
past-due balances (Arrearage Management Plan) for income-qualified
residential customers.
- The Medical Baseline Allowance program, which allows for
additional daily energy consumption at the lowest-rate available,
to offset some of the cost of operating medical and mobility
equipment for vulnerable customers.
- Payment arrangements to give residential and small business
customers more time to pay their bill, including spreading payments
out up to 12 months or extensions of up to 30 days.
- Online tools like Budget Assistant that let residential and
small business customers track their energy usage in real time and
projects their next monthly bill; and TOU text alerts that notify
customers when higher-priced TOU on-peak periods begin and
end.
For more information on SCE’s customer assistance options, visit
sce.com/findsupport. For more information about the California
Climate Credit, please visit this CPUC web page.
About Southern California Edison
An Edison International (NYSE: EIX) company, Southern California
Edison is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, serving a
population of approximately 15 million via 5 million customer
accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central,
Coastal and Southern California.
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