SGIP Battery Storage Incentives

Cost share · Free to qualifying landowners, from California Public Utilities Commission

Self Generation Incentive Program battery incentives: the Equity budget at 850 dollars per kWh and the Equity Resiliency budget at 1,000 dollars per kWh, which can cover roughly the whole cost of a battery for Tier 2 or 3 High Fire Threat District residents and repeated PSPS customers. As of December 31, 2025 new applications are only taken under the AB 209 Residential Solar and Storage Equity budget, which is fully reserved with a waitlist.

You do not apply for this yourself. The commission says the way in is an installer, and it keeps an approved developer list you can pick one from; the installer then works the application through the programme administrator for whichever utility you are on. The budget aimed at households pairs solar with battery storage for low income residential customers anywhere in California, and the point of pairing them is that the two together keep working in a power cut, which is what matters on a ridge that loses the line every autumn. There are eligibility conditions beyond income, so ask the installer to check yours before anything is ordered. Where this comes from

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