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Company Profiles	Description
Edison International Profile	Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison (SCE), a regulated electric utility, and Edison Mission Group (EMG), a competitive power generation business and parent company to Edison Mission Energy (EME) and Edison Capital.
SCE Profile	SCE is one of the nation’s largest investor-owned electric utilities, serving nearly 14 million people in 15 counties of Central, Coastal and Southern California.
Edison Mission Group Profile	EMG manages the competitive power generation business and other unregulated subsidiaries of Edison International.
Community Involvement	Description
Supporting the Communities We Serve	Supporting the Communities Served by the People of Edison The core areas of Edison’s community support programs are enhancing education opportunities among underserved groups, and strengthening community environmental stewardship.
Customer Services & Rates	Description
Edison SmartConnect	A Smarter, Cleaner Energy Future for Southern California Edison Customers SCE collaborated with meter manufacturers to develop a completely new solid-state metering and communication system that would offer customers a lower cost, greater benefits and improved grid operations.
Compact Fluorescent Lamps	SCE has taken the Environmental Protection Agency's pledge, "Change a Light, Change the World," by being part of the campaign to promote the usage of fluorescent light bulbs. These bulbs save energy and reduce energy costs.
Rates	Myths and Facts about Southern California Edison Rates Questions and answers about rates.
Environmental Stewardship	Description
Advanced Energy Strategies	Advanced Energy Strategies by Industry-Leading Environmental Stewards Edison International subsidiaries operate dynamic power generation and distribution portfolios while practicing nationally recognized environmental stewardship.
California Climate Change	SCE’s award-winning energy-efficiency programs have helped customers save more than 5 billion kilowatt-hours over the last five years, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2 million tons – the equivalent of removing 250,000 cars from the road..
Environmental Restoration	San Onofre Industry-Leading Environmental Restoration Projects Read about the Wheeler North Kelp Reef off San Clemente, Calif., and the San Dieguito Wetland Restoration Project near Del Mar, Calif.
Industry Leadership	Description
Edison International - Leading the Way in Electricity	Edison International is an industry leader, with pioneering initiatives that include developing new energy sources and power delivery systems.
Edison - Utility Champion of Electric Transportation	Provides details of SCE’s national leadership in utility electric transportation, including its large EV fleet, research partnerships, and EV testing facility.
Energy Efficiency and Demand Response	Describes SCE’s national leadership offering programs that help customers save energy and reduce demand during power emergencies.
Edison's Electric Vehicle Technical Center	A brief history of the electric-drive technology industry. A story of SCE engineers helping to lead the way toward a sustainable transportation future.
Renewable & Alternative Energy Leadership	Describes SCE’s national leadership in renewable energy procurement and alternate clean generation development.
Smarter Grid Leadership	Describes steps SCE engineers have taken to make the company’s distribution and transmission grids the smartest operated by any U.S. utility.
Power Generation	Description
Solar Power from SCE	Explains SCE’s latest power generation project, the largest photovoltaic facility in the world.
SCE’s Mountainview, a Customer Win, Win, Win	Describes SCE’s newest power plant and the first built in the Los Angeles basin during that past 30 years.
Power Transmission & Distribution	Description
Renewing California's Essential Electricity Infrastructure	Explains SCE’s massive infrastructure investment program, expanding the power delivery grid the serves 14 million Southern Californians and replacing aging grid components.
Smart Neighborhood Distribution Circuit	Describes SCE’s new “circuit of the future,” a distribution circuit serving 1,200 Edison customers in the Inland Empire comprised of the most advanced circuit technology in the country.
San Onofe Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)	Description
SCE's Nuclear Power Program	The first of 12 one-page backgrounders that tell the story of Southern California Edison's nuclear energy program and the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station new San Clemente, CA. A brief description of the value San Onofre provides to Southern California and SCE customers - "baseload" generation, emission-free, cost-effective, grid reliability, environmental enhancement, and community support.
How Edison's Nuclear Plant Makes Electricity	A simple, non-technical description of how nuclear energy is used to generate electricity including visuals illustrating the basic components of a nuclear power plant.
Steam Generator Replacement	The largest construction project since the San Onofre plant was built is underway. Four major components—640-ton steam generators that turn reactor heat into steam that drives the plant's turbines—are being replaced as they approach the end of their service.
Steam Generator Transportation	SCE environmental safeguards transporting new San Onofre steam generator.
SONGS Ocean Water Cooling System	An explanation of how coastal power plants use ocean water for cooling purposes while safeguarding and even enhancing the environment.
San Onofre's Industry-Leading Environmental Restoration Projects	Southern California Edison has undertaken the two largest West Coast environmental projects of their type in conjunction with operating San Onofre. This backgrounder describes these unprecedented marine and wildlife initiatives.
Fueling Nuclear Power	Where does nuclear fuel come from? How is it prepared for use in a nuclear plant? How is it stored after being used? What is done to ensure safety during each of these steps? This backgrounder provides answers.
Edison's Rigorous Emergency Preparation	As with all U.S. nuclear plants, Edison participates in an active partnership with communities near its nuclear plant, as well as other state and federal emergency preparedness agencies, to ensure that, in the unlikely event of a nuclear emergency, employees and the public would receive rapid accurate information on how to respond.
Nuclear Power - An Unsurpassed Record of Public Safety	No large U.S. industrial process has a better safety record than does the nuclear generation industry. Here are the details.
The Future of SONGS	This one-pager provides specific details about the future of Edison's plant, Southern California's largest power source and its only major source of "baseload" generation that does not emit greenhouse gasses.
Nuclear Energy Q&A	Is it really safe? Didn't Chernobyl raise serious questions about this form of power generation? What about possible terrorist attacks? These and other questions are answered.
Contact Us	A comprehensive list of Edison personnel who can assist with various types of issues related to nuclear generation and the San Onofre facility.
Glossary of Nuclear Energy Terms	A glossary of commonly used terms.