Volunteer Criteria
Eligibility
- You must live in one of the following cities in California
Moorpark, Oak Park, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village
- You must have lived in your existing residence for at least 3 years
- You must have an online Southern California Account
- You must have at least one central air conditioner or heat pump with thermostat or a pool pump
- Higher priority shall be given to those who have both
Solar panels, EVs, electric water heater, and advanced storage are welcome!
- Small / Medium Commercial customers in these cities with significant manageable air conditioning, heat pumps, solar panels, storage and other manageable loads
Security and Privacy
- We are extremely paranoid when it comes to security and privacy. As such, here are our guarantees to you:
- In no case shall your contact information be made available to anyone outside of the RATES project team
- In no case shall we provide your energy usage/data to any third party
- In no case shall we use your energy usage/data for any other purposes but for optimization for you
- Communications between all end points are secured by and authenticated through X509 certificates issued by OpenADR Alliance