At Southern California Edison (SCE), we want to ensure reliable and affordable electric service to our customers. We are pleased to introduce a new pilot program focused on making household energy more affordable and predictable.  

The Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) is a four-year pilot program that will provide qualified customers with the same low, fixed energy bill every month, not including taxes or fees. This program will only be available for 4,000 residential California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) customers through SCE and/or participating Community Choice Aggregators (CCA). If eligible, electric bills will be fixed at a low amount of either $29 or $86 per month and will be subject to change on a yearly basis. These are the maximum possible bill payments due, not including taxes or fees. Some customers’ bills may be lower. 

• Be a current CARE customer, and; 
• Fall within the 2022-2023 Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG) Household income chart (shown below), and;  
• Meet either of the following: 
  • Be located in one of the zip codes with the highest rate of recurring disconnections (shown below) or 
  • Have been disconnected two or more times between March 2019 and February 2020.  

To see if you are eligible for the lower, fixed monthly payment ($29), please see the 2022-2023 Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG) Household Income chart shown below. If your income is over the $29 household income limit listed in the chart, you may be eligible for the higher, fixed monthly payment ($86).¹  

* Current gross (before taxes) household income from all sources.  

Potentially eligible customers may apply for PIPP by visiting sce.com/pipp or by calling 1-800-736-4777. Once the pilot is fully enrolled, customers may be put on a waitlist. 

• Customers will not be eligible to participate in the PIPP pilot if they are enrolled in any other pilot program, including the following account types: 

  • Master Metered/Sub-Metered 

  • Direct Access (DA) 

  • No Smart Meter 

  • Net Energy Metering (NEM) 

• If a customer is enrolled in SCE’s Power Saver Rewards Program, the Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP) pilot for residential customers, by submitting a PIPP application and subsequently enrolling in the PIPP pilot, they will be un-enrolled from the ELRP pilot in order to participate in the PIPP pilot. 
• If a customer moves within SCE’s service area and does not establish service at the new location within 30 days, or, if they move outside of SCE’s or a participating Community Choice Aggregators’ (CCA)² service area, they will be removed from the PIPP pilot. 
• Customers must authorize Southern California Edison to share their information and be contacted by third parties that assist in the enrollment or evaluation of the PIPP pilot. The information that may be shared includes, without limitation, my name, address, email address, contact information, yearly income, household size, energy usage, and enrollment in other utility energy savings, management, or customer assistance programs. 
• Customers must understand that by submitting income documentation for the CARE program, SCE will adjust their bill cap according to the income guidelines of the PIPP pilot. 
• Note that the following customers are also not eligible to participate:
   

  • Customers enrolled in the Budget Billing Payment Plan (BBPP)  

  • Customers enrolled in Community Choice Aggregation service from a CCA that is not participating in the PIPP pilot 

  • The CCAs that are not participating in the PIPP pilot include:  

  • Desert Community Energy (DCE) 

  • Energy for Palmdale’s Independent Choice (EPIC) 

  • Orange County Power Authority (OCPA)  

  • Santa Barbara Clean Energy (SBCE)