Last month we wrote about a rebate program being offered by Pasadena Water & Power for both the purchase of an Electric Vehicle (new or used) as well as the installation of EV chargers. Which got us to thinking, don’t the other local utilities have something similar? Well guess what, they do! Read on to see what might be available from a utility near you!
SCE offers rebates for both purchasing an EV as well as installing a level 2 (i.e., 240 VAC) charger.
The SCE rebate for purchasing an EV is $450. Here are the requirements:
To apply for the SCE EV rebate, go here.
SCE also offers a rebate of $500 to install a Level 2 charger at your home. Here are the requirements:
To apply for the SCE EV charger rebate, go here.
LADWP does not appear to offer a rebate for the purchase of a new EV, but they do offer a rebate for purchasing a used EV, as well as installing an EV charger. Their overall EV page is here.
LADWP is offering a pilot program for the first 2,000 approved applicants who purchase an EV two or more years old (i.e., model year 2016 or older). The rebate is $450 and opened on April 1, 2018.
Here are the requirements:
LADWP offers a $500 rebate for installing a Level 2 EV charger (i.e., 240 VAC). Program requirements are:
Interestingly, LADWP does not specifically require the installation to be permitted and inspected.
BWP offers a rebate of $500 for residential EV charger installations. (You can access the rebate application here.) They do not appear to offer a rebate for purchasing EVs.
Program requirements for the EV charger rebate are:
As is often the case, GWP’s programs mirror those of BWP. GWP offers a $500 rebate for residential EV charger installations, but nothing toward the purchase of the EV itself. Here’s a link to their overall EV page. One interesting wrinkle, GWP issues the rebate in the form of a credit on your GWP bill - none of the other rebate programs said that.
Here are the requirements for the EV charger rebate:
Access the GWP EV charger rebate application form here.
We just learned that Pasadena Water and Power is offering a series of rebates for electric vehicles and for their chargers - how cool is that? Here’s the scoop…
New or used EVs, whether purchased or leased, qualify for rebates. The rebate is $250, but that doubles if you get your EV from a Pasadena dealership. (And if you participate in PWP’s income-qualifying programs, the rebate can be as much as $750!)
To qualify, you must have an active PWP electric account, be the legal owner of the EV and permanently reside at the address shown on the PWP account.
The rebate is limited (if you can call this a limitation!) to two EVs every three years!
Now that you have an EV, you need a charger and PWP is offering rebates on those as well! A standard Level 2 (240 VAC) charger qualifies for a $200 rebate, but a Wi-Fi enabled Level 2 charger qualifies for a $600 rebate!
You must complete the online rebate application within 180 days of purchase. To get started, check out PWP’s EV rebate page here.
The Pasadena Solar Initiative - clearly the best run solar rebate program in SoCal - is ending December 31, 2017! Here’s our take…
For PWP customers, this means that you need to get a complete rebate application on file before the end-of-year deadline. You then have six months from the date of the reservation to complete the project. The rebate, while it lasts, is $0.30/Watt for both residential and commercial customers, and twice that, $0.60/Watt, for non-profits. If you have been sitting on the sidelines wondering when would be the best time to go solar in PWP territory, well, here’s your answer: Now!
The PSI has been around in its present form almost as long as Run on Sun has been in business, and we would be remiss if we didn’t take a moment to give credit for this wonderful program. Over the past nine years it has been a model of how to run a rebate program: open, transparent, easy to participate with predictable rebate amounts, and no sudden interruptions in availability. (Cf. alleged rebate programs in Glendale and Burbank, or the horrible SGIP program.)
We are proud to have worked with all the folks behind the PSI at Pasadena Water & Power and they have done a terrific job! We are greatly appreciative of their hard work, particularly Mauricio Mejia, Irma Cid-Lujan, Alex Gonzalez, and John Hoffner. Thanks for a successful nine years - well done!
Run on Sun has been doing Pasadena Solar for more than 10 years, but only now have we gotten around to dedicating a webpage just to Pasadena Solar!
I know, kinda silly (and foolish from an SEO perspective) but we figured we were fine as we were. But then I looked at the search results on Google for “Pasadena Solar” and it was really depressing. I mean seriously - read some of those reviews and you know that they are fake - but still their related websites were getting better rankings than ours! Not acceptable!!!
So now, if you want to see a webpage that proudly proclaims its love for Pasadena Solar, we’ve got you covered - complete with this iconic image!
Oh, and because we do so much work in neighboring Altadena we are hoping to do a shout-out page for them too but we need an idea for the quintessential Altadena image - if you have ideas, please let us know!
Bad news for Pasadena Water and Power customers - we have just learned that PWP’s solar rebates will be dropping by 1/3 effective August 1st! Here are the details…
As we have noted many times in the past, Pasadena has one of the best solar rebate programs around - decent rebates, a well managed program, and good communications. Consistent with that approach we have just learned that the solar rebates are going to be reduced effective August 1st. That means that rebate applications submitted prior to then, and which are deemed complete when submitted, will qualify for the current rebate. Once the rebate is reserved, you would then have a year to complete the project.
Here are the current and upcoming rebate rates:
Customer Type |
Current Incentives |
Incentives Effective |
||
EPBB |
PBI |
EPBB |
PBI |
|
Residential | $0.45 | $0.144 | $0.30 | $0.096 |
Commercial | $0.45 | $0.144 | $0.30 | $0.096 |
Non-Profit/Gov’t | $0.90 | $0.288 | $0.60 | $0.192 |
Income-Qualified | $1.80 | $0.576 | $1.20 | $0.384 |
Potential residential or commercial clients, your rebate will drop from 45¢/Watt to 30¢/Watt. That means that for a typical residential project of 5 kW, the rebate will drop from $2,250 to $1,500.
Non-profits will leave even more money on the table if they miss the August 1 deadline. For a typical 40 kW school project, the rebate will drop from $36,000 to $24,000! Ouch!
If past is prologue, this drop in the rebate amount will create a stampede as folks try to lock in the current rebate rate before it steps down. If you are in PWP’s service area, please don’t wait, give us a call today!