SB-Cal ACTION INITIATIVE

On Bill Financing for California Small Businesses

(Note: PG&E does not yet offer On Bill Financing. PG&E currently offers Energy Edge Small Business Financing which uses third party financing.  The program is available in selected areas in CA.  Update here.

Current OBF News

Forbes.com, February 18, 2009...."Oregon bill encourages energy efficiency upgrades" by Ryan Post

SB-Cal presents our 2008 Energy Leadership Award to Frank Spasaro with Sempra Utilities

9/8/08 Reply Comments - PG&E & SCE Respond To SB-Cal OBF Comments

SB-Cal OBF Comments on 2009 - 11 CA IOU Program Applications

2007 Federal Legislation - OBF To Roll Out Via SBA

October 2007 CPUC Decision on 2009-11 Programs with Ruling on OBF

SDG&E OBF progress (posted 4/9/07)

 OBF Developments in Pennsylvania (posted 2/6/07)

Update for the United Illuminating Small Business Energy Advantage OBF Program - 2006 Results (posted 1/15/07)

 

SDG&E reported on November 28th, 2006 to the Policy Advisory Group Meeting the following developments....

• Frank Spasaro noted that there are 17 OBF applications now being processed.  Of these, 14 are public entities and 3 are for commercial businesses.

• Advice letter filed with CPUC to raise the loan ceiling from $25,000 to $50,000. 

• Advice letter filed to extend maximum loan terms limits for qualified business & multi-family projects to 5 years

• Advice letter filed to change "credit" eligibility requirements to : minimum two year active account,  no disconnect notices in past 12 months and no deposit on hand.

• For the SDG&E Multi-Family program, OBF will be promoted in general.

• SB-Cal is researching the OBF potential for solar hot water applications in the Multi-Family sector and will report findings to SDG&E.

So Cal Gas reported the same time...

• No project applications so far.  Advice letter changes (above) should help.

SCE reported on November 28th, 2006 to the Policy Advisory Group Meeting the following developments....

• Dave Bruder announced OBF design made it through the SCE legal dept.  He stated that inclusion of OBF into IT infrastructure was less of a problem than expected.

• Due to the minimum $5K loan amount, the targeted small business program needed to be re-calibrated from very small to small/medium customers.

• For OBF loans to public entities, SCE is filing an advice letter to raise the maximum loan amount to $1,000,000.00.  

For past events, please go to CA OBF Development

Background and Early Progress