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Following guidance from the California Public Utilities Commission, I-REN will design programs that provide energy efficiency to hard-to-reach or underserved customers and disadvantaged communities.
CPUC Equity Definitions
Underserved
- Residential and public sectors: an underserved customer is a member of an underserved community, as defined by Pub. Util. Code Section 1601(e)
- "Underserved community" meets one of the following:
- "low-income communities" as defined by paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 39713 of Health and Safety Code
- census tracts with one of the following criteria:
- a "disadvantaged community" as defined by subdivision (g) of Section 75005 of the Public Resources Code.
- Census tracts with a median household income less than 80% of the statewide average, as of 2022
- median household income at or below the threshold designated as low income by the Department of Housing and Community Development's list of state income limits adopted pursuant to Section 50093, as of 2022
- This is equivalent to the criteria for Low-Income Communities under AB 1550
- a "disadvantaged community" as defined by subdivision (g) of Section 75005 of the Public Resources Code.
- CalEPA Disadvantaged Community
- Developed as a result of Senate Bill 535 containing the following categories:
- Top 25% of CalEnviroScreen 4.0 score
- Highest 5% of CalEnviroScreen 4.0 Cumulative pollution burden scores, but lacking overall CalEnviroScreen 4.0 score due to data gaps
- DAC per CalEnviroScreen 3.0, regardless of CES 4.0 score
- A community located on lands belonging to a federally recognized California Indian tribe.
- Any census tract containing these lands, as of 2024
- Developed as a result of Senate Bill 535 containing the following categories:
- >= 75% FRPM Eligibility
- a community in which at least 75 percent of public school students in the project area are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Program.
- Census tracts meeting this criteria, for the 2023-2024 school year.
- a community in which at least 75 percent of public school students in the project area are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Program.
Hard to Reach
- One of the following:
- Customers or customer premises in areas other than the United States Office of Management and Budget Combined Statistical Areas of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Greater Sacramento Area or the Office of Management and Budget metropolitan statistical areas of San Diego County
- These statistical areas are made up counties as listed in the Office of Management and Budget bulletin for the following Division Codes
- 41860: San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area
- 31080: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
- 40900: Sacramento-Roseville, CA Combined Statistical Area
- 41740: San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area
- These statistical areas are made up counties as listed in the Office of Management and Budget bulletin for the following Division Codes
- Customers or customer premises in disadvantaged communities, as identified by the California Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 39711
- Directly overlaps with the CalEPA Disadvantaged Community criteria for the Underserved definition
- Customers or customer premises in areas other than the United States Office of Management and Budget Combined Statistical Areas of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Greater Sacramento Area or the Office of Management and Budget metropolitan statistical areas of San Diego County
Employment Concentration
- Quantity of Energy Industry employers by Zip code