About Shift & Save
Shift & Save is a unique program that permanently reduces peak demand of the electric grid. Unlike Demand Response, which reduces the peak load on specific days when the power grid is at risk of overload, Shift & Save permanently removes daily AC peak loads over the entire peak season. Designed to ensure continued power reliability, Shift & Save offers a viable means to contribute to a more sustainable way of doing business.
The Time to Shift & Save is Now
There is a limited budget for customer incentives to shift peak energy. Customer reaction to Shift & Save has been very positive. We encourage you to contact Cypress, Ltd. soon regarding your Shift & Save incentives. To learn more about Shift & Save, please contact Ruby Irigoyen at the Cypress, Ltd. Customer Service Center at 1-877-811-8700.
Using Ice Bear® technology from Ice Energy, Shift & Save allows qualified PG&E customers to install equipment that uses less expensive, less polluting, nighttime power to create and store cooling for use the next day. Administered by Cypress, Ltd. the Shift & Save market qualifications include:
- All bundled PG&E customers with service sizes typically suitable for A6, A10 TOU, E19 or E20 rates
- Community college districts, cities and counties
- Commercial, institutional, retail and military applications
- Retrofit, new construction, remodel or gut/rehab, and tenant finish applications
- AC provided by DX refrigerant condensing and compressing
- Permanently shifts demands of air conditioning units from summer on-peak hours during the 2007 - 2011 program years
- Promotes PLS technology and strategies in retrofit, new construction, gut/rehab applications
- Eliminates peak load and lowers customer costs for peak energy
- Helps lower a building's carbon/greenhouse gas footprint by 10 to 20%
- Reduces California's electricity peak demand
- Helps improve electricity grid reliability
- Helps improve comfort and increase AC equipment life
- Supports a "Key Action" in California's Energy Action Plan II to tap advanced technologies to achieve the goals of reliability, affordability and an environmentally-sound energy future
| New Construction Applications | |
| Program Year | Potential $/kW |
| Installation Payment | $1,400 |
| Total Potential Payment /kW shifted | $1,400 |
| Retrofit Applications | |
| Program Year | Potential $/kW |
| Installation Payment | $850 |
| 2008 Performance Persistence | $195 |
| 2009 Performance Persistence | $195 |
| 2010 Performance Persistence | $195 |
| 2011 Performance Persistence | $515 |
| Total Potential Payment /kW shifted | $1,950 |
Learn more about Shift & Save.
Download the Shift & Save Program PDF (160KB)
