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Company Profiles

Description

Edison International Profile

Explains the nature and scope of parent company activities.

Edison Mission Group Profile

Explains the nature and scope of Edison’s unregulated power generation and energy trading businesses.

SCE Profile

Explains the nature and scope of Edison’s regulated electric utility.

Community Involvement Description
Supporting the Communities We Serve 

Describes ways Edison International employees strengthen communities where the company does business.

Customer Services & Rates Description
Edison SmartConnect

Describes the industry-leading advanced metering program – Edison SmartConnect.

Rate Myths and Facts

Explains the myths and facts about SCE rates.

Supporting the Switch to CFLs

Explains SCE’s leadership implementing the Dept. of Energy’s Take the CFL Pledge campaign.

Environmental Stewardship Description
California Climate Change Provides an overview of current California laws and explains how Southern California Edison is a proven leader in reducing emissions through deployment of clean technologies and investment in energy efficiency.

Edison's Environmental Stewardship

(Currently Pending Update) - Provides an overview of key environmental initiatives by Edison International companies.

Edison’s Nuclear Generation Environmental Restoration Projects

Provides an overview of key environmental initiatives by Edison International companies.

Industry Leadership Description
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

(Currently Pending Update) - 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
SONGS’ 25-Year Contribution

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.

 

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