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Services for Disadvantaged Communities

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Enter your facility's zip code in the search bar below to learn if it is considered low-income, rural, or disadvantaged and is eligible for additional SoCalREN services. Note: Title 1 school eligibility is not included in the zip code search.

Our Service Territory

Map of SoCalREN service areas

Line image  SoCalREN Eligible Service Territory

pink square Low-income, rural, or disadvantaged communities eligible for additional SoCalREN Public Agency Programs support

For a full list of low-income, rural, and disadvantaged community zip codes in SoCalREN Public Agency Programs' service territory, click here.

*Note: SoCalREN services are only available in areas served by either Southern California Edison or Southern California Gas Company

Services for Low-Income, Rural, and Disadvantaged Communities

SoCalREN Public Agency Programs offer customizable services to help public agencies throughout Southern California reduce energy costs through energy efficiency improvements. We are dedicated to ensuring that members of low-income, rural, and disadvantaged communities are not left behind in the inevitable and accelerating transformation of our energy future. Because we understand that public agencies that serve these communities may have additional barriers to energy efficiency, we prioritize services for them and offer several exclusive services specific to low-income, rural, and disadvantaged communities, including analysis of and support for distributed energy resources (DER) and other sustainability strategies projects through our Pathway to Zero Program. 

What is a “low-income, rural, or disadvantaged community”?

We use the terms low-income, rural, and disadvantaged to refer to communities with barriers to completing energy efficiency projects, such as lack of financial resources and geographic isolation. We identify these communities using the following criteria:

  • Disadvantaged communities: defined by CalEnviroScreen 3.0, a screening tool developed for CalEPA that incorporates a number of indicators based on geographic, socioeconomic, public health, and environmental hazard criteria. Learn more about CalEnviroscreen here.
  • Low-income communities: based on the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s definition of very low income communities. Details of the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s income methodology can be found here.
  • Title 1 schools: identified by the California Department of Education.
  • Rural communities: identified via the Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) code assessment.