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Engstrom: SCE measured 75 MW peak load reduction via TOU during 2022

Scott Engstrom · Frontier Forum: How rates will make or break the energy transition · Sep 4, 2024 · at 32:27

Scott Engstrom discusses utility rate design and customer demand management during extreme heat events on The Green Blueprint.

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“Southern California Edison, we worked with they measured on one peak day, The price signal to time of use customers, this is one of the heat storms in California in August, September, I think, of twenty-twenty-two, but they measured 75 megawatts of load reduction.”

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The claim, plainly

Southern California Edison measured 75 megawatts of load reduction on a single peak day from time-of-use customers during a California heat storm in 2022.

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Assessment

The claim accurately reflects analytics conducted by rate analytics firm GridX in collaboration with Southern California Edison (SCE). Published case studies and technical materials from GridX and SCE confirm that residential time-of-use (TOU) customers delivered approximately 75 MW of measured load reduction during a peak event day in the August 2022 heat storm. While broader regulatory filings with the California Energy Commission (CEC) in May 2023 noted methodological challenges in isolating statewide TOU baselines from emergency conservation, SCE's specific rate evaluation work with GridX measured the 75 MW reduction figure as stated.

GridX case materials and publications (including Insights magazine and Frontier Forum) document that SCE's residential TOU program measured 75 MW of load reduction during an August 2022 peak event.
The 75 MW impact was derived from rate design analysis conducted by GridX in partnership with SCE assessing residential TOU price signals during the late summer 2022 heat waves.

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[1] utilitydive.com [2] gridx.com [3] gridx.com [4] gridx.com [5] nasa.gov [6] utilitydive.com [7] eia.gov [8] latimes.com

SCE 75 MW peak day September 2022 heat wave TOU "75 megawatts" "time-of-use" "Southern California Edison" 2022 "Scott Engstrom" GridX "measured 75 MW of load reduction" Southern California Edison 75 MW load reduction time of use heat storm 2022 SCE residential TOU evaluation 2022 heat storm load reduction 75 MW

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