6. Conclusion

SCE's proposed changes to the SDP are reasonable, justified, and consistent with the Public Utilities Code. The changes achieve the Commission's policy goal of integrating this major DR program into the CAISO's dispatch system and enable the use of air conditioning curtailments when electricity prices are high. The revised SDP also ends the current situation in which the CAISO pays twice for the RA function provided by the SDP. Finally, the revised SDP gives customers more options to control electric consumption and continues to provide participating customers with the benefits that they provide.

In addition, requiring the filing of an update in SCE's Demand Response Application Cycle Funding Request for 2013-2014 after the summer of 2012 will ensure that the SDP does not impose costs on consumers who do not participate in this program.

In summary, the revisions to the SDP expand the usefulness of this major DR program, empower customers to control their electric usage, and protect non-participants from program costs.