Edison International, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation and distribution of electric power.
The company is the ultimate parent holding company of Southern California Edison Company (SCE) and Edison Energy, LLC, doing business as Trio.
Subsidiaries
SCE – Public Utility
SCE is an investor-owned public utility primarily engaged in the business of supplying and delivering electricity through SCE's electrical infrastructure to an approximately 50,000 square-mile area across Sout...
Edison International, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation and distribution of electric power.
The company is the ultimate parent holding company of Southern California Edison Company (SCE) and Edison Energy, LLC, doing business as Trio.
Subsidiaries
SCE – Public Utility
SCE is an investor-owned public utility primarily engaged in the business of supplying and delivering electricity through SCE's electrical infrastructure to an approximately 50,000 square-mile area across Southern, Central, and Coastal California. SCE serves approximately 5 million customers in its service area.
Trio – Energy Service Provider
Trio is a global energy advisory company providing integrated sustainability and energy solutions to commercial, industrial, and institutional customers. Trio aims to provide energy solutions that address cost, carbon, and complex choices for its customers.
Riverside Transmission Reliability Project
The Riverside Transmission Reliability Project is a joint project between SCE and Riverside Public Utilities (‘RPU’), the municipal utility department of the City of Riverside. While RPU will be responsible for constructing some of the project's facilities within Riverside, SCE's portion of the project consists of constructing upgrades to its system, including a new 230 kV substation; certain interconnection and telecommunication facilities, and overhead transmission lines in the cities of Riverside, Jurupa Valley, and Norco, as well as in portions of unincorporated Riverside County. In May 2022, the Riverside City Council (‘RCC’) voted to investigate alternatives to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved project. Consequently, SCE suspended all major activities on the project. In January 2023, the RCC voted to establish a working group to pursue funding for additional undergrounding. In October 2023, the City of Norco filed a petition for modification (‘PFM’) to modify the CPUC decision approving the project and reopen the record to reconsider full undergrounding. In November 2023, SCE filed a response opposing the PFM. In March 2024, the CPUC denied the PFM. In May 2024, the RCC voted to move forward with the original scope of the project, and SCE restarted its work on the project. In July 2024, SCE initiated construction bid solicitations, with awards expected in the first half of 2025.
Alberhill System Project
The Alberhill System Project consists of constructing a new 500 kV substation, two 500 kV transmission lines to connect the proposed substation to the existing Serrano-Valley 500 kV transmission line, telecommunication equipment, and subtransmission lines in western Riverside County. The project was designed to meet long-term forecasted electrical demand in the proposed Alberhill System Project area and to increase electrical system reliability and resiliency. In April 2018 and July 2018, the CPUC issued a proposed decision and an alternate proposed decision, both denying SCE's ability to construct the Alberhill System Project based on a perceived lack of need. SCE filed comments on both proposed decisions requesting that the CPUC grant the certificate of public convenience and necessity (‘CPCN’) for the Alberhill System Project. In August 2018, the CPUC issued a decision that did not deny or approve the Alberhill System Project but directed SCE to submit supplemental information on the Alberhill System Project, including, but not limited to, a load forecast and cost-benefit analysis of several alternatives to the proposed project. In January 2020, SCE submitted a supplemental analysis to the CPUC for the Alberhill System Project, including several alternatives to the proposed project, as well as an update to the original project cost. In June 2023, SCE filed an amended CPCN with technical design modifications and engineering refinements to the proposed project that decrease project costs and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Eldorado-Lugo-Mohave Upgrade Project
The Eldorado-Lugo-Mohave Upgrade Project will increase capacity on existing transmission lines to allow additional renewable energy to flow from Nevada to southern California. The project would modify SCE's existing Eldorado, Lugo, and Mohave electrical substations to accommodate the increased power flows from Nevada to southern California; increase the power flow through the existing 500 kV transmission lines by constructing two new capacitors along the lines; raise transmission tower heights to meet ground clearance requirements; and install fiber optics on the transmission lines to provide communications between existing SCE substations. In August 2020, the CPUC approved the CPCN for the project.
Regulation
As a public utility holding company, the company is subject to the Public Utility Holding Company Act. The Public Utility Holding Company Act primarily obligates the company and its utility subsidiaries to provide access to their books and records to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the CPUC for ratemaking purposes.
The construction, planning, and project site identification of SCE's transmission lines and substation facilities require compliance with various laws and approval of many governmental agencies, in addition to the CPUC and FERC. These include various state regulatory agencies depending on the project location, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other environmental, land management, and resource agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the California Coastal Commission, and the State Water Resources Control Board. In addition, to the extent that SCE transmission line projects pass through lands owned or controlled by Native American tribes, consent and approval from the affected tribes and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are also necessary for the project to proceed.
Properties
SCE supplies electricity to its customers through extensive transmission and distribution networks. Its transmission facilities, which are located primarily in California but also in Nevada and Arizona, deliver power from generating sources to the distribution network and consist of approximately 13,000 circuit-miles of lines ranging from 55 kV to 500 kV, and approximately 80 transmission substations. SCE's distribution system, which takes power from distribution substations to customers, consists of approximately 38,000 circuit-miles of overhead lines, approximately 32,000 circuit-miles of underground lines, and approximately 730 distribution substations.
As of December 31, 2024, SCE had ownership interests in generating and energy storage facilities, primarily located in California, with approximately 7,000 MW of net physical capacity, of which SCE's pro-rata share is approximately 3,500 MW. SCE's pro-rata share includes approximately 63 MW of capacity from facilities that were not operational or out of service as of December 31, 2024, and excludes retired facilities. In addition, SCE owns two utility storage facilities in SCE’s service area with an aggregate capacity of 312.5 MW, and a third 225 MW facility is expected to be in service in 2025.
Certain of SCE's substations, and portions of its transmission, distribution, and communication systems are located on lands owned by the federal, state, or local governments under licenses, permits, easements, or leases, or on public streets or highways pursuant to franchises. Certain of the documents evidencing such rights obligate SCE, under specified circumstances and at its expense, to relocate such transmission, distribution, and communication facilities located on lands owned or controlled by federal, state, or local governments.
SCE owns and operates hydroelectric plants and related reservoirs, the majority of which are located in whole or in part on U.S.-owned lands and are subject to FERC licenses. Slightly over half of these plants have FERC licenses that expire at various times through 2046. FERC licenses impose numerous restrictions and obligations on SCE, including the right of the United States to acquire projects upon payment of specified compensation. When existing licenses expire, the FERC has the authority to issue new licenses to third parties that have filed competing license applications, but only if their license application is superior to SCE's and then only upon payment of specified compensation to SCE. New licenses issued to SCE are expected to contain more restrictions and obligations than the expired licenses because laws enacted since the existing licenses were issued require the FERC to give environmental objectives greater consideration in the licensing process. In addition, SCE expects additional opposition to new licenses by environmental stakeholder groups. If, in the future, SCE decides to, or is forced to, decommission one or more hydroelectric projects, the costs related to the decommissioning will be substantial. The CPUC approved SCE recovering a portion of estimated decommissioning costs for hydroelectric projects in the 2021 GRC. SCE intends to sell, subject to regulatory approval, a portion of its hydroelectric facilities comprising approximately 17 MW of capacity by 2027.
Substantially all of SCE's properties are subject to the lien of a trust indenture securing first and refunding mortgage bonds.
Seasonality
Due to warm weather during the summer months and SCE's rate design, operating revenue during the third quarter of each year is generally higher than in the other quarters (year ended December 31, 2024).
History
Edison International was founded in 1886. The company was incorporated in 1987.