Clean Power Alliance Launches Pilot Program Offering Zero-Cost Daytime Electricity to Southern California Households
Clean Power Alliance (CPA), a leading green power provider and California's largest community choice energy aggregator, has initiated a two-year pilot program. This initiative will provide over 4,000 Southern California households with a $0-per-kilowatt-hour generation rate daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The program, known as the Time-Of-Use-SMART Pilot (TOU-SMART), is a collaborative research effort with UCLA. Its primary goal is to assess how strong daytime price incentives influence household electricity consumption patterns. Participants will experience no CPA generation charge during the super-off-peak period, while charges will be higher during the 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on-peak period and slightly increased during the overnight off-peak period from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. This structure aims to encourage the shifting of energy-intensive activities, such as electric vehicle charging, laundry, dishwashing, pool pumping, heating, and cooling, to daytime hours.
