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Grid-Responsive Incentive Design Market Access Program (GRID-MAP)
This page provides information for Aggregators, Customers interested in serving as their own Aggregator, and Customers and Trade Professionals who want to learn about and how to participate in GRID-MAP offered in Southern California Edison Company’s (SCE) service territory.
What types of projects qualify?
As a meter-based pay-for-performance energy efficiency program, GRID-MAP offers nearly limitless opportunities for projects that can reliably demonstrate reductions in energy use as measured at the customer meter. Unlike traditional utility energy efficiency programs, the program measure savings relative to “existing conditions” or the customer’s normalized usage in the 12 months prior to project installation. Typical energy efficiency projects include: lighting, HVAC, water heating, building envelope, refrigeration, and controls-based technologies. Although the program does not offer incentives for demand response technologies (equipment or other mechanisms that periodically reduce customer loads in response to system conditions), it does provide opportunities for participating customers to sign-up for demand response programs if the installed energy efficiency equipment (such as controls) facilitates such participation. The program also permits “fuel substitution” – equipment upgrades that switch fuels from natural gas to electricity such as replacing an air conditioner and furnace with an air-source heat pump.
What customers are eligible?
GRID-MAP serves Southern California Edison commercial and residential customers. Commercial customers include: Lodging, Hospitals, Food Service, Home Centers, Pharmacies and Drug stores, Warehouse Clubs and Superstores, among others. Residential customers include: Single Family, Multifamily, and Mobile/Manufactured Homes. This downloadable PDF provides the program’s eligible NAICS codes (customer segments).
What are the project incentives?
Aggregators receive payments for projects based on the savings produced at time of day and by time of year. As a program focused on aligning program payments with project benefits to the grid (electricity or gas system), projects that produce energy savings at times when “avoided costs” are higher, receive higher payments. In addition, the program’s incentives incorporate elements to encourage certain outcomes. The outcomes these variants on base incentives encourage include: projects for hard-to-reach (HTR) or Underserved customers, projects located within Disadvantaged Communities (DAC), and projects that are more cost effective. Due to the additional requirements associated with site-based NMEC projects, incentives for these projects are slightly lower. See the following tables and downloadable spreadsheet.
All rates are subject to change.
This downloadable rates spreadsheet provides the table data in Excel format.
Aggregators receive the following payments:
- An Installation Payment equal to 40 percent of the Estimated Total Incentive – paid after Installation Approval;
- Semi-annual calendar Performance Payments calculated based on the net amount of earned incentives to date minus the Installation Payment and any prior Performance Payments.
How do I qualify and sign up?
Aggregator Qualifications: All interested parties authorized to do business in California and willing to commit to the program terms can participate.
Register: Aggregators interested in participating in GRID-MAP should send an email to: grid-map-for-sce@mendotagroup.com. Program staff will send the Aggregator Participation Agreement that organizations must complete, sign, and return.
Complete the Aggregator Enrollment: Upon receipt of a properly completed Aggregator Participation Agreement, Mendota Group will send a link, ID, and one-time password for access to the GRID Platform. Once signed-in, the Aggregator will be asked to complete enrollment by providing general company and contact information, and tax forms.
Aggregators who enroll in multiple GRID programs will be required to submit separate Aggregator Agreements.
Important Documents
Document
Description
Downloadable File
Program Implementation Plan (includes Program Manual, and Measurement and Verification Plan)
Regulatory document describing the program. Filed with CPUC.
Rulebook for Programs and Project Based on Normalized Metered Energy Consumption, v.2.0.
California Public Utilities Commission guidance for programs that use population-based and site-based Normalized Metered Energy Consumption to calculate project savings.
Financing opportunities, through SCE On-Bill Financing (OBF) or State of California gogreen Financing™.
Southern California Edison offers interest-free financing for energy efficiency improvements. The State of California’s gogreen financing offers residential and commercial customers low-interest financing through authorized contractors.
GRID-MAP is funded by California utility customers and administered by Southern California Edison Company (SCE), under the auspices of the California Public Utilities commission through a contract awarded to Mendota Group, LLC. Program funds, including any funds utilized for rebates or incentives, will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis until such funds are no longer available. This program may be modified or terminated without prior notice. Customers who choose to participate in this program are not obligated to purchase any additional goods or services offered by Mendota Group or any other third party. The selection, purchase, and ownership of goods and/or services are the sole responsibility of customer. SCE does not make any warranty, whether express or implied, including the warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, of goods or services selected by customer. SCE does not endorse, qualify, or guarantee the work of Mendota Group or any other third party.
Inflation Reduction Act Disclaimer: Customers and Aggregator should note that the availability of tax credits and other potential financial incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are uncertain. President Donald Trump’s January 20, 2025, Executive Order paused disbursement of funds flowing from the IRA. Therefore, Customer’s decision to proceed with the project should not assume that IRA tax credits or other financial incentives will be available.
