USING POWER FOR GOOD

• CPA’s Power Response Commercial Leaders Program is a Demand Response program administered by Uplight Inc. for CPA business and public sector customers.
• Commercial Leaders receive financial incentives for their environmental leadership in their communities by participating in the Commercial Leaders Power Response program during times of high energy demand.
• Demand Response programs are intended to encourage consumers to reduce energy usage when electricity consumption is anticipated to be higher than the electricity grid can provide.
• During times of higher than seasonally projected energy demand, Commercial Energy Saving Events will be called and participants will be asked to reduce their electricity usage. These events can happen up to 15 times per year between 4-9 PM.
• Business and public sector customers may participate by adjusting your systems, such as turning off nonessential lights, raising the temperature on the thermostat, or turning off equipment not in use.

CPA has partnered with Uplight to implement the Power Response Program. Uplight is a clean energy technology company that unlocks grid capacity by activating customers and their connected devices to generate, shift, and save energy. They enable sustainable load growth by combining personalized customer experiences with an open, flexible load management platform through the Uplight Demand Stack: integrating energy efficiency, electrification, rates, and flexibility programs to improve grid resilience, reduce costs, and accelerate decarbonization for both energy providers and their customers. For additional information, visit www.uplight.com

Participants can receive up to $80 per kW each year for power reduced during Commercial Energy Saving Events. Payments and incentive rates are seasonal and based on the actual performance of your business during a Commercial Energy Saving Event.

Incentives will be calculated based on your monthly Commercial Energy Saving Event performance. The number of reduced kilowatt hours of energy will be calculated per Commercial Energy Saving Event and will be divided by the number of hours dispatched for each event to arrive at the incentivized kilowatt value. The incentive for the month will be based on the monthly average.

If the participant does not participate or does not reduce energy during any of the events within a month, the incentive will be zero for that month. 

• You may save energy which may result in electricity bill savings.
• You can help CPA to lower the demand on the electric grid.
• You can help our environment from the harmful effects of excessive dirty fossil fuel usage.
• You could help avoid a blackout when the stress levels on the electricity grid are high.

We will work directly with your business to create a custom plan that works for you. Begin by filling out a brief Interest Form today and a CPA representative will follow up within three business days.

Your CPA representative will work with you to complete an assessment of your site, identifying strategies to save power during Commercial Energy Saving Events and earn incentives.

See the Terms & Conditions for more details.

• CPA customers on a business rate
• Site(s) with regular energy use during the peak periods of 4-9 PM and can reduce electricity usage during that time
• Site(s) with an ability to adjust electricity usage in response to an event up to 15 times per year, such as through modifiable thermostat setpoints, car chargers that can be depowered, delayed cycling of 2-stage HVAC systems, rescheduled water pumping, battery storage systems that can be discharged
• Customers enrolled in other “demand response” programs are not eligible

Enrollment is simple:

1. Complete an interest form 
2. A CPA representative will follow up within 3 business days to confirm your interest and eligibility.
3. Work directly with a CPA representative to complete a Facility Analysis and Energy Reduction Strategy, by identifying energy-saving strategies to respond to Commercial Energy Saving Events.
4. Accept your custom Facility Analysis and Energy Reduction Strategy and await enrollment confirmation.

You will be notified that your enrollment is accepted or not accepted by email approximately three weeks after approval of your Facility Analysis and Energy Reduction Strategy . During the enrollment process, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) will check to see that you are not currently enrolled in another DR program.  If the process with CAISO finds that you are currently enrolled in another DR program, and you cannot be disenrolled from it you will receive a nonacceptance letter and will be unable to participate.

You will be notified by Uplight, our program implementer, via email approximately three weeks after signing up if there is a conflict with your enrollment in the Power Response Commercial Leaders Program.

You may withdraw from Power Response Commercial Leaders at any time with no financial penalty, but you will be ineligible to receive incentives accrued within that calendar month or any subsequent rewards. You will still receive your incentive for prior months in which you were actively enrolled for the entire duration of the month.

To withdraw from the program, please contact CPA’s Power Response customer support at 877-526-1589 or email support@cpapowerresponse.org.

Commercial Energy Saving Events will not be called more than 15 times per year, with no more than three events in any seven-day period. Events will not occur on weekends or holidays.

Commercial Energy Saving Events will occur between 4-9 PM and will not exceed 4 hours.

However, in cases of a Grid Emergency, an event may be called more than 3 times in a 7-day period, on a weekend, or during a holiday. 

A “Grid Emergency” occurs when the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) (a) declares an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) 2 or greater; (b) when CAISO declares an event threatening or limiting transmission grid capability including line or transformer overloads; (c) when a state of emergency related to a sudden and severe energy shortage is declared pursuant to California Government Code section 8565, et seq.; or (d) other event or action that can result in a sudden and severe energy shortage to California’s electricity grid.   

Notifications will be sent to an identified point of contact who will be responsible for ensuring energy-saving strategies are deployed at the site or business. A CPA representative will work with you to identify this contact and the best means of communication.

You will not be assessed any financial penalties for declining events. However, lack of participation in DR events could reduce your expected monthly incentive, which is based on your average monthly performance. Opting out of an event will count as a zero in the monthly performance average calculation.

See “How is performance measured?”.

Once you agree to share your meter data as part of the enrollment process, you will authorize Uplight, our program implementer, to be your Demand Response Provider (DRP). As a result, Uplight will have access to some of your utility information, including the customer name associated with the account, the service address, rate schedule, meter type, electric usage, billing data, and if you are enrolled in a utility demand response program. This data will be kept in a secure location according to Fair Information Practices as prescribed by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) guidelines. For more information on the DRP authorization process and data protocols, refer to the CPUC website here. For more information on Uplight’s privacy policy please click here.

Founded in 2017, Clean Power Alliance is the locally operated electricity provider for 30 cities across Los Angeles County and Ventura County, as well as the unincorporated areas of both counties. CPA is the fifth largest electricity provider in California and the single largest provider of 100% renewable energy to customers in the nation. CPA serves approximately three million customers via one million customer accounts, providing clean renewable energy at competitive rates. To view CPA’s 2020 Impact Report, click here. To learn more about CPA, please visit our About Us page.