The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing efforts to strengthen community wildfire resiliency throughout the state, established new budgets and modified incentives of more than $1 billion to fund the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) for the next critical fire season and subsequent years.
The decision approves an SGIP annual budget of $166 million for 2020-2024, for a total of $830 million in new funding. When added to existing unspent funds from prior years, the decision allocates a total of $1.2 billion in incentives and prioritizes funding of projects for communities most impacted by Public Safety Power Shut-off (PSPS) events.
The decision focuses the program on energy storage projects that serve customers with medical needs and impacted communities during PSPS events.