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DEPARTMENT

POLICY & PROCEDURE

1 ENERGY EQUITY RATE PILOT

OPP NUMBER DPP 500 P 111-429

EFFECTIVE DATE January 3rd, 2020 I SUPERSEDES New

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1.0 PURPOSE

1.1 To establish rules for the Energy Equity Rate Pilot (EERP), which is a small-scale pilot

program offered by the City Light Department ("Department") under authority conferred by

Ordinance 125957. The pilot tests rate incentives and a suite of wraparound services to

make electricity services more affordable for very low-income customers.

2.0 ENROLLMENT

2.1 Enrollment Criteria. To qualify for this program a customer must meet the following

conditions: (1) reside in the City of Seattle, (2) be a primary City Light account holder for

the past 12 months, (3) be enrolled in the Utility Discount Program (UDP) or be eligible for

the UDP, (4) have a household annual income under $50,000 for the most recent year

available, (5) have an energy burden (ratio of electricity costs to income) greater than 10%

(or more than 4% after receiving the UDP discount) using billing data for in the last 12

months of available data. The Department will limit this pilot to the first 300 eligible

households that sign up for the program.

2.2 Enrollment Process. The Department will partner with Byrd Barr Place (BBP) to solicit,

verify enrollment criteria and sign up eligible pilot participants. Income verification will be

determined using the same income documentation as Low Income Home Energy

Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The Department and BBP will sign a data sharing agreement

ensuring that BBP will follow all the Department's policies for privacy and use of the

Department's customer data.

2.3 Unenrollment. Customers can unenroll from this program at any time for any reason. If

either by customer notification or other means the Department discovers that the customer

is not eligible, the Department will remove the customer from the Energy Equity Rate Pilot

rate and return the customer to either the UDP or the standard residential rate.

3.0 RATE INCENTIVES

3.1 Rate Subsidy. Pilot participants will receive a subsidy that covers 100% of their base service

charge, as well as a portion of the per kWh charge such that their resulting effective rate is

3.3 cents per kWh. For illustration, the computed rate incentives for 2019 and 2020 given

adopted rates listed in SMC 21.49 would be:

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8.0 REFERENCES

8.1 City of Seattle Ordinance #125957

8.2 Seattle Municipal Code 21.49.040, 21.49.042 and 21.49.085

8.3 RCW 7 4.38.070

Distribution: Posted online @ http://www.seattle.gov/light/policies and SCL Internal SharePoint site

REVISION HISTORY

DATE CHANGES MADE REVISED BY

12/20/19 This DPP was created to establish rules for the Author: Brian Hawksford, Carsten

Energy Equity Rate Pilot (EERP). The pi lot will be Croff

testing rate incentives and a suite of wraparound

services to make electricity services more affordable Coordinator: Kim Kinney

for very low-income customers.

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