AC Saver (Summer Saver)
With SDG&E’s AC Saver program, residential customers could save energy and earn money by installing an AC Saver device on their air conditioning unit. Using less energy helps ensure public safety and puts energy back on the grid. Business customers, click here.
The AC Saver Day Of program is now closed.
On December 20, 2023, after a thorough review, the California Public Utilities Commission approved SDG&E’s request to discontinue the AC Saver Day Of program.
How It Works
AC Saver was a voluntary demand response program available to residential customers with air conditioner (AC) units installed at their premise with SDG&E approved technology capable of curtailing the customers’ AC unit. After signing up for the AC Saver program, SDG&E would install a device on customer central air conditioning units at no cost. On select hot days, when conservation was needed, the installed device was activated to cycle your central air conditioner "on and off" for a period of two to four hours.
The program ran during the months of April through October and activations could be called every day of the week, but only up to 25 events annually could be called with five events being reserved for emergency use only.