Commercial Energy Management in the San Diego Metro
San Diego Metro is SDG&E territory, where competitive supply exists but is capped or routed through a public program rather than open bidding. We work every route that is genuinely available, alongside rate design and demand management.
How Energy Buying Works in San Diego Metro
SDG&E commercial rates are among the highest in the continental United States, which changes the arithmetic on every efficiency and demand project — payback periods that fail in Texas clear easily here. Competitive supply runs through San Diego Community Power and the Clean Energy Alliance rather than through supplier bidding, and Direct Access remains capped. The practical consequence is that generation charges are largely fixed by which CCA tier you sit in, while the delivery and demand components are where a San Diego business actually has room to move.
California opened to competition in 1998, but the terms are set territory by territory, not statewide. SDG&E's distribution rates, its default supply price and its rate schedules are all set independently of the other utilities in California — which is why an offer that is genuinely competitive in one part of the state can be mediocre here. Everything on this page is scoped to SDG&E specifically.
SDG&E Commercial Rates
Which schedule you are on sets the shape of the bill before a single kilowatt-hour is priced.
| Schedule | Typically covers |
|---|---|
| A — Small Commercial | small commercial accounts |
| AL-TOU | medium and large commercial on time-of-use |
| A6-TOU | small commercial on optional time-of-use |
| DG-R | accounts with on-site generation |
Schedule names, demand thresholds and eligibility rules change with each rate case, and the schedule an account was originally placed on is frequently no longer the one that fits it. We verify yours against the actual bill rather than assuming — that check is free, and it is where a meaningful share of the savings on this page comes from.
Energy Management by Industry in San Diego Metro
Biotech and research campuses, defense contracting, tourism and cross-border logistics dominate commercial load here. Each sector carries a different load shape on SDG&E, and the strategy changes with it.
Healthcare · concentrated here
Healthcare facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 800,000+ kWh/month on a constant high load with minimal fluctuation profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Healthcare Energy in San Diego Metro →Hospitality · concentrated here
Hospitality facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 200,000-700,000 kWh/month on a variable based on occupancy and season profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Hospitality Energy in San Diego Metro →Technology · concentrated here
Technology facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 200,000-800,000 kWh/month on a extended hours with always-on equipment profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Technology Energy in San Diego Metro →Manufacturing
Manufacturing facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 500,000+ kWh/month on a 24/7 baseload with peak production hours profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Manufacturing Energy in San Diego Metro →Retail
Retail facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 100,000-500,000 kWh/month on a high during business hours, lower overnight profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Retail Energy in San Diego Metro →Data Centers
Data Centers facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 2,000,000+ kWh/month on a consistent extreme baseload profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Data Centers Energy in San Diego Metro →Education
Education facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 300,000-1,000,000 kWh/month on a academic calendar-driven fluctuations profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Education Energy in San Diego Metro →Property Management
Property Management facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 150,000-600,000 kWh/month on a business hours peak for commercial, evening for residential profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Property Management Energy in San Diego Metro →Food Service
Food Service facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 50,000-200,000 kWh/month on a meal period peaks with constant refrigeration baseload profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Food Service Energy in San Diego Metro →Warehouse & Logistics
Warehouse & Logistics facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 400,000-1,500,000 kWh/month on a 24/7 operations with shift-based peaks profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Warehouse & Logistics Energy in San Diego Metro →Automotive
Automotive facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 80,000-300,000 kWh/month on a business hours concentration with some 24/7 operations profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Automotive Energy in San Diego Metro →Municipal & Government
Municipal & Government facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 200,000-800,000 kWh/month on a varies widely by facility type profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Municipal & Government Energy in San Diego Metro →Agriculture
Agriculture facilities in the San Diego Metro typically run 150,000-600,000 kWh/month on a highly seasonal with weather dependency profile, billed on SDG&E commercial schedules.
Agriculture Energy in San Diego Metro →Cities in San Diego Metro
SDG&E serves San Diego County.
San Diego, CA
An SDG&E market where Direct Access and Community Choice Aggregation are the routes to competitive supply.
San Diego Energy Management →Other Utility Territories
Different utility, different rates. If your facilities span more than one of these, they need more than one strategy.
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Los Angeles Metro
LADWP · LADWP
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South Bay & Long Beach
Southern California Edison · CAISO SP15
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Orange County
Anaheim Public Utilities · Anaheim Public Utilities
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Bay Area
PG&E · CAISO NP15
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Central Valley
PG&E · CAISO NP15
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Sacramento Metro
SMUD · SMUD
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