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PROGRAMS & INCENTIVES

Ever wondered how you can make smarter choices for our environment? We are here to help. As an added benefit, Santa Barbara Clean Energy is working on incentives and programs to address carbon emissions from electricity, gas, transportation, and waste to landfills.

ELECTRICITY INCENTIVES

In addition to offering green energy choices, Santa Barbara Clean Energy wants to help you improve our community.

RESILIENT PAYS YOU MORE
FOR SOLAR

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Santa Barbara Clean Energy pays you more for solar, wind, and green energy generation than Edison!

Do you already have solar
or wind generation?

If you have solar or generate green energy on your home or business and are a Net Metering customer, you are automatically enrolled in Resilient and earn more money for the solar power that you generate.

Thinking about
adding solar?

Now is a great time to add solar and earn more money for the electricity that you generate. Call our team to learn more.

BIGGER IMPACT

Help us reduce Santa Barbara’s carbon emissions with Santa Barbara Clean Energy.

Santa Barbara’s Current Carbon Emissions

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Steps to Reduce Carbon Emissions

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Electricity: Santa Barbara Clean Energy starts by providing carbon-free electricity.

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Gas: Santa Barbara Clean Energy will focus on energy efficiency to reduce the amount of fossil fuels burned in homes and businesses.

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Transportation: Santa Barbara Clean Energy will develop and deliver programs likes ones that help encourage electric vehicles that run on carbon-free electricity and active modes of transportation.

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Pie Chart of Carbon Emissions

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PERSONAL RESILIENCE:
BATTERY 
STORAGE

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Are you interested in improving your personal resilience so that you can avoid Public Safety Power Shutoffs? Would you like to save money and buy electricity at the lowest rates?

A battery backup could be the answer.

SimpliPhi, a local company in Ojai that makes 20-year, cobalt-free batteries, is offering Santa Barbara Clean Energy customers $760 - $6,840 off 15.2 kWh to 136.8 kWh batteries.
 

You can charge the batteries with electricity from the grid or your solar panels when electricity is cheaper (mornings - afternoons) and use the stored electricity in the evenings when rates are higher or when a Public Safety Power Shutoff is protecting infrastructure elsewhere.

SOLAR & BATTERY DISCOUNTS

Are you interested in saving on new solar and battery storage?

Brighten Solar Co. is giving discounts for harnessing energy and storing it. Save $100/kilowatt for solar systems and $70/kilowatt-hour for battery systems. This provides an average savings of $500 for solar and $700 for battery systems. If you are a CARE customer you save even more.

SOLAR & BATTERY SYSTEM

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The Santa Barbara Home Power Program covers the cost of a customized solar power and battery storage system. You pay for the power produced by the system over the term of the agreement. No credit check, financing, or lien on property. All county residents are eligible.

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HOME ENERGY AUDIT
& WATER MONITOR

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Did you know that 50% of local electricity use goes towards water treatment and delivery?

A home energy audit can tell you where you can save money and a free water monitor will let you know if money and water are being wasted. 

The first 30 people that sign up will receive this free evaluation and get to keep a water monitor (a $200 value).

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APPLIANCE INCENTIVES

Reducing fossil fuel use is a key step to cleaning up our air and water. 

INDUCTION
COOKING - TRY IT ON US

Electric induction cooking is one way cooks can take advantage of clean electricity and reduce the use of gas. Some Santa Barbarans have expressed a reluctance to take this step, because they do not believe the quality is comparable. Advances in induction cooking will surprise you. Call our team today to test an induction cooktop kit complete with pans.

TRANSPORTATION INCENTIVES

Are you looking to make a difference locally, help us tackle carbon-emissions, and do something good for yourself and your family? We applaud your efforts and are teaming up with local partners to make it easy.

ELECTRIC
BIKES

We are teaming up with Santa Barbara BCycle to give you an electric bike share membership at a reduced cost - 20% less. Contact our team today to learn more and add convenient electric bikes to your green motorcade.

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