Long-Standing California Medical Center Avoids Demand Charges by Rate Switching, Enabled by Solar + Storage

I Love My Solar, a Central California-based project developer, and longtime ETB Developer user, was determined to find a solution for a local medical center wanting to alleviate the increased expense caused by escalating electric rates. The site was billed under the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) B-10 rate, which at the time solar was being considered, had a monthly max demand charge of $13 per kilowatt (kW). Due to continual rate increases, that demand charge has since increased to over $17/kW. Standalone solar was not going to be enough to keep this facility’s max annual peak demand under 75 kW, a requirement of the electric rate that the medical center was interested in switching to.