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Energy storage enables you to save electricity for use when it’s most needed. This technology ensures that your home’s essential systems remain operational during power outages. Additionally, it allows your solar system to function during these outages, keeping batteries charged for use after sunset.

Prepare Your Home for the Fire Season

Self Generation Incentive Program (SGIP)

The California Public Utilities Commission offers a free Home Battery Backup through the “Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP)” if you live in a high-risk fire zone and meet specific requirements. To qualify, you must own a solar electric system and be an SCE customer. Check your eligibility by clicking on the CA Fire Map to see if your home is within the qualifying orange or red area.

If you reside in the fire map’s orange or red zones and have a qualifying medical condition, you could become a vital support in your community during power outages. Take advantage of our program, which fully utilizes government-funded rebates and incentives. We provide a comprehensive 38.4kW Whole Home Battery Backup system—a service valued at $50,000—completely free if you qualify.

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SCE Medical Baseline Program

Customers who are part of SCE’s Medical Baseline program have access to additional electricity at the lowest baseline rate. This program is designed to help individuals who, due to medical necessities, require the continuous use of electrically powered medical equipment or other qualifying devices. If you or someone in your household relies on such equipment, you may be eligible for this program, which aims to mitigate the costs associated with operating medical devices.

SCE ensures that customers are well-prepared for potential power outages caused by unforeseen weather events or other emergencies. Eligible patients, or residents within these patients’ homes, should consult with their healthcare provider to determine if they qualify for the program. Additionally, enrolled patients will receive critical alerts and warnings about power interruptions, including public safety power shutoffs.

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(SGIP) Residential Program

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(SGIP) Residential Fact Sheet

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FAQs About SCE and the Medical Baseline Program

Combining solar power with energy storage has several advantages, one of which is the provision of emergency assistance to those in precarious medical situations. The grid’s resilience is primarily increased by solar energy and battery backup. Each home that installs solar panels and batteries reduces the strain placed on public infrastructure due to the changing environment. This has the added benefit of allowing homeowners to generate their own backup power supply. This, in turn, reduces the frequency of outages, lowering the high costs involved with maintaining and updating an antiquated infrastructure.

During a power outage, solar and storage technologies provide reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly alternatives for generating and distributing electricity. Even while most of the greatest solar batteries cannot yet sustain the electrical needs of a complete home, they may be modified to support essential home appliances if the power grid is interrupted. This technology could potentially disrupt the market for residential energy sources. It can provide individuals in need with the support that could save their lives.

Your battery installer and the utility company you have service with manage the rebates for which you might be qualified.

Medical Baseline allowance may be used toward the cost of gas or electricity, depending on the power requirements of the gadget and the requirements for independent living. Customers who are qualified for the Medical Baseline program are entitled to receive an increased monthly allocation of gas and/or electricity. As a result, this helps to ensure that a greater quantity of energy capable of supporting qualifying medical devices is accessible at a reduced cost.

Benefits of SCE’s Medical Baseline Allowance program include:

  • More energy at the lowest baseline rate
  • Many medical devices qualify and can be new or existing
  • A medical professional can approve and sign online applications by e-signature

As a result of a recent expansion in the program’s eligibility requirements, thousands of additional SCE customers who are enrolled in the Medical Baseline program and live in high-fire-risk areas may now be eligible for a free, solar-powered backup battery. This is because the company has recently expanded the program’s eligibility requirements. Consumers of Medical Baseline now have access, as part of the Critical Care Backup Battery Program offered by the utility, to a portable backup battery capable of receiving renewable charging from an accompanying solar panel. This gives them a greater sense of calm. Depending on the amount of the required battery, clients can use portable batteries in their homes in the event of an emergency or take them with them if they need to leave their homes.

No Cost to Qualify For Free Home Backup Battery Installation

If you have Solar and are a SCE Customer, follow these 3 steps:

  1. To check if you qualify, first check the Fire Map and enter your address. If your home falls within the orange or red zone, you qualify!
  2. Next, evaluate your medical needs. Visit their website to access a list of qualifying medical conditions on their website. A common qualifier is a diagnosis of sleep apnea using a CPAP or ASV breathing machine. If you or anyone staying in your home even for one night has a qualifying medical condition, you qualify!
  3. Well done! Simply fill out the form at the link below, and we will reach out to inform you of the next steps to receive your FREE HOME BATTERY BACKUP SYSTEM!
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