DEPARTMENT
POLICY & PROCEDURE
RESIDENTIAL TOD PILOT
DPP NUMBER DPP 500 P III-431
EFFECTIVE DATE 01/01/2022 SUPERSEDES 09/22/2020
APPROVED BY
1.0 PURPOSE
1.1 To establish rules for the Residential Time-of-Day (TOD) Pilot, a small-scale, opt-in pilot program offered by the City Light Department ("Department"). The pilot tests rate incentives that discount rates during low demand hours and have a
premium rate during high demand hours.
2.0 PROGRAM DESIGN
2.1 Enrollment Criteria. Pilot participants must meet the following criteria:
a) Be currently on or qualify for a City Light residential rate schedule
b) Have no overdue balance
c) Have average monthly consumption over 750 kWh a month based on 2019 billing data
d) Have a City Light AMI meter
e) Have access to the internet to complete periodic surveys and view monthly reports
f) Are not enrolled in the Utility Discount Program, or the Net Metering Program (solar customers).
2.2 Enrollment Process. Participants will enroll online and will be notified via email upon successful enrollment. A confirmation letter will also be mailed to the physical address listed on the account.
2.3 Size of the Program. This pilot program will be capped at 200 participating customers.
2.4 Participant Selection. A lottery system will be used to select the participants once the enrollment period has closed. A number of quotas and caps will be used to provide a diverse customer make-up. All information will be self-reported by the
customer on the enrollment form. The following criteria will apply:
a) At least 50 customers with household annual income under $75,000
b) At least 50 customers who rent their home
c) No more than 50 customers who charge electric vehicles at their home, with the first 25 spots being held for customers already participating in City Light's Residential Charging Program
2.5 Duration. This pilot program may commence any time after the approval date of this document. The pilot will end on December 31, 2022.
2.6 Unenrollment. Participation in this program is optional and 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 pilot and return the customer to their default residential rate.
3.0 RATES
3.1 Rate Design. Incentives in the form of time-of-day price signals will be provided to participating customers. For simplicity, all participating customers will have the same effective TOD rate structure regardless of the jurisdiction they reside
in. Therefore, incentives will vary depending on the customer's default residential rate code (RSC, RSH, RSBetc.). Table 1 below shows the effective TOD rates, as well as an example of the rate incentives for customers on RSC (Seattle) rates.
TABLE 1: TOD INCENTIVE AND EFFECTIVE RATE
Base Service Charge First Block End
Block Effective TOD Pilot Rate
RSC Residential Rate (Seattle) $0.1974 $0.1056 $0.1307
Pilot Price Signals / Incentives
Off-peak per kWh - $0.0364 -$0.0615 $0.0692
Mid-peak per kWh +$0.0109 -$0.0142 $0.1165
Peak per kWh +$0.0584 +$0.0333 $0.1640
Base Service Charge per Day $0.0000 $0.1974
Off-Peak: midnight - 6 am
Mid-Peak: Monday Saturday 6 am - 5pm, 9 pm midnight, Sunday and Holidays* 6 am - midnight
Peak: Monday - Saturday 5 pm- 9 pm (excluding Holidays*)
*Holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day
Rates shown do not include RSA surcharges
3.2 RSA Surcharge. Any RSA surcharges will be applied as a percentage increase to each component of the effective time-of-day rate.
Bill True-up. In accordance with Ordinance 125957 a participating customer's bill will be no higher than it would be on their default rate schedule. If a customer's consumption patterns do not create a discount under the pilot TOD rate structure, their
bill for that cycle will be based on the default residential rate. All participating customers will be transferred to a monthly billing cycle if not already on one.
4.0 REFERENCES
4.1 City of Seattle Ordinance 125957
4.2 Seattle Municipal Code 21.49.030
Distribution: Posted online @ http://www.seattle.gov/light/policies and SCL Internal SharePoint site
REVISION HISTORY
DATE CHANGES MADE REVISED BY
09/02/2020 This DPP is to establish rules for the Residential Time-of-Day (TOD) Pilot, a small-scale, opt-in pilot program offered by the Department under authority conferred by Ordinance 125957. The pilot tests rate incentives that discount rates
during low demand hours and have a premium rate during high demand hours.
Author: Carsten Croff, Chris Ruffini
Coordinator: Kim Kinney
12/13/2022 Updated rates for 2022 Rate Increase Carsten Croff