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					June 27, 2008 - Southern California Edison Declares Dividends
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					&lt;P&gt;ROSEMEAD, Calif., June 27, 2008 — The Board of Directors of Southern California Edison Company today declared the following dividends:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Quarterly dividends of $0.255 per share on the 4.08% series of cumulative preferred stock, $0.265 per share on the 4.24% series of cumulative preferred stock and $0.29875 per share on the 4.78% series of cumulative preferred stock.&amp;nbsp;Each of these dividends is payable on August 31, 2008, to shareholders of record on August 5, 2008.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Quarterly dividends of $1.53125 per share on the Series B preference stock and $0.27 per share on the 4.32% series of cumulative preferred stock.&amp;nbsp;Each of these dividends is payable on September 30, 2008, to shareholders of record on September 5, 2008.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Media Relations: Charles Coleman&lt;/STRONG&gt;, (626) 302-7982&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.edisonnews.com&quot;&gt;www.edisonnews.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Investor Relations: Scott Cunningham&lt;/STRONG&gt;, (626) 302-2540&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.edisoninvestor.com&quot;&gt;www.edisoninvestor.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P align=left&gt;&amp;nbsp;An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is the largest electric utility in California, serving a population of more than 13 million via 4.8 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central, coastal and Southern California.&lt;/P&gt;
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					June 11, 2008 - Southern California Edison Elects Ridenoure Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer
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					&lt;P&gt;ROSEMEAD, Calif., June 11, 2008 – The Southern California Edison (SCE) Board of Directors has elected Ross Ridenoure senior vice president and chief nuclear officer, effective June 1, 2008. In his new role, Ridenoure will be responsible for all operational, engineering and regulatory aspects of SCE’s nuclear power program. He succeeds Dick Rosenblum who has retired after 31 years of service at SCE.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ridenoure joined SCE in December 2007 as vice president and site manager of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente, CA.&amp;nbsp; SCE is the plant’s operator and owns a 78.21-percent stake in San Onofre.&amp;nbsp; The plant’s other owners are San Diego Gas &amp;amp; Electric (20 percent) and the City of Riverside (1.79 percent). &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;“We are pleased to have Ross’ leadership of our nuclear power business at this very important juncture in San Onofre’s history,” said Al Fohrer, SCE chairman and chief executive officer. “The plant is a key element of our plan to meet the growing energy demands of our region while reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.”&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ridenoure came to SCE from the Omaha Public Power District where he was the vice president and chief nuclear officer with overall responsibility for the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station.&amp;nbsp; Prior to joining Omaha Power, he served on nuclear powered submarines for eight years in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear power program. He recently retired from the Navy after more than 29 years of active and reserve service.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ridenoure’s professional affiliations include chairmanship of the board of directors for the Utilities Services Alliance, and membership of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations executive advisory group and of SCE’s nuclear oversight board. Additionally, he has served as a nuclear operations instructor for Illinois Power and for the Westinghouse Electric Company, a leading nuclear power plant manufacturer. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Ridenoure holds undergraduate degrees in sociology and nuclear engineering technology from Excelsior College and an MBA from the University of Nebraska.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Media Contact: Gil Alexander&lt;/STRONG&gt;, (626) 302-2255&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.edisonnews.com&quot;&gt;www.edisonnews.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Investor Relations Contact: Scott Cunningham&lt;/STRONG&gt;, (626) 302-2540&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.edisoninvestor.com&quot;&gt;www.edisoninvestor.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;EM&gt;An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is the largest electric utility in California and serves a population of more than 13 million via 4.8 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within central, coastal and Southern California.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;
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					June 3, 2008 - Paul De Martini Named Southern California Edison Vice President
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					&lt;P&gt;ROSEMEAD, Calif., June 3, 2008 — The Southern California Edison (SCE) Board of Directors has promoted Paul De Martini to vice president. De Martini will oversee the company’s new Advanced Technologies organization, a group of engineers, scientists and technicians working to realize SCE’s goal of a “smart” electric grid. The group will combine electric transportation, advanced transmission and distribution engineering, and smart meter technologies.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;“Paul De Martini has provided exceptional leadership in helping us develop new technologies for a new era, one marked by our ongoing need to meet our customers’ growing electric demand in an environment where we’re continuing efforts to urge energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions,” said James A. Kelly, SCE senior vice president and head the Transmission and Distribution Business Unit.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;De Martini continues to lead Edison SmartConnect, the company’s award-winning program to replace millions of traditional electric meters within SCE’s 50,000-square-mile service area with smart meters that will provide customers with new pricing options and information about their electricity usage to help them conserve energy and save money.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SCE also has been an industry leader in electric transportation, both through its fleet of electric cars—the nation’s largest—and its electric vehicle technology center in Pomona, Calif. Last July, SCE took another major step in advancing alternative transportation with the announcement of a partnership with Ford Motor Co. to explore ways to make plug-in hybrid vehicles more accessible to consumers, reduce petroleum-related emissions and improve the cost-effectiveness of the nation’s electricity grid.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;An early example of the application of cutting-edge technology to the electric grid is SCE’s “Circuit of the Future,” a 12,000-volt circuit serving about 1,500 customers in the San Bernardino area that became operational last July. The circuit of the future can locate and isolate a circuit problem in seconds, a job that traditionally can take much longer. This technology will help reduce the length of power outages.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;De Martini joined SCE in 2002. Before joining the company, he was a vice president at ICF International, a leading energy and environmental consulting firm. Earlier, De Martini held senior management positions with Sempra Energy, and before that Pacific Gas and Electric Co.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;De Martini holds an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco. He also is a Wharton Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;De Martini lives in Tustin, Calif., with his wife and two children.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Media Contact:&amp;nbsp; Steven Conroy&lt;/STRONG&gt;, (626) 302-2255&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.edisonnews.com&quot;&gt;www.edisonnews.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;An Edison International (NYSE:EIX) company, Southern California Edison is the largest electric utility in California, serving a population of more than 13 million via 4.8 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within Central, Coastal and Southern California.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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					June 3, 2008 - Southern California Edison Contracts with eSolar for Solar Power Tower
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					&lt;H4&gt;245 Megawatt Project is Nation’s First for New Solar Tower Technology&lt;/H4&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ROSEMEAD, Calif., June 3, 2008 — Southern California Edison (SCE) today signed a contract to procure an additional 245 megawatts of solar power for its customers with Pasadena, Calif.-based eSolar in the nation’s first commercial effort using power tower solar thermal technology.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The project, which will be built in the Lancaster area of California, is expected to begin delivering energy in 2011, with a total of 105 megawatts of renewable solar power by 2012, ramping up to 245 megawatts by 2013. SCE is currently the nation’s leading purchaser of solar energy, buying more than 90 percent of U.S. production.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;“Solar is the great untapped energy resource for California — it’s renewable and plentiful,” said Stuart Hemphill, SCE vice president, Renewable and Alternative Power. “We rely on innovative companies such as eSolar to help expand our industry-leading portfolio and to secure access to the most promising technology solutions.”&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;About the technology&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Each pre-fabricated module consists of several solar towers each associated with thousands of heliostats, or mirrors. The mirrors precisely track the sun over the course of the day and reflect light to a receiver at the top of each tower. The concentrated light boils water in a central receiver, routing the steam to a traditional turbine to produce electricity. eSolar’s solar thermal technology is unique in that it uses shorter towers, small mass-manufactured mirrors and advanced tracking software, achieving economies of scale within a minimal footprint and easy connection to transmission&amp;nbsp; lines.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;SCE leads the nation in renewables&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;SCE buys for its customers more than 90 percent of all solar energy produced. In 2007, the utility procured about 12.5 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy, more than any other utility or state. Renewable energy comprises about 16 percent of SCE’s total energy portfolio. SCE currently has sufficient contracts in place that, when delivering, will meet 20 percent or more of its customers’ energy needs with renewable energy.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The current portfolio includes:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI&gt;1,025 megawatts from wind. 
&lt;LI&gt;906 megawatts from geothermal. 
&lt;LI&gt;354 megawatts from solar. 
&lt;LI&gt;174 megawatts from biomass. 
&lt;LI&gt;226 megawatts from small hydro.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;For more about SCE’s renewable energy program, visit &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.sce.com/renewables&quot;&gt;www.sce.com/renewables&lt;/A&gt;. For information on eSolar, visit &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.esolar.com&quot;&gt;www.esolar.com&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Media Contact: Vanessa McGrady&lt;/STRONG&gt;, (626) 302-2255&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;mailto:vanessa.mcgrady@sce.com&quot;&gt;vanessa.mcgrady@sce.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.edisonnews.com&quot;&gt;www.edisonnews.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Investor Relations: Scott Cunningham&lt;/STRONG&gt;, (626) 302-2540&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.edisoninvestor.com&quot;&gt;www.edisoninvestor.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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					June 2, 2008 - Southern California Edison’s ‘Operation Light Exchange’ Offers Amnesty for Old, Inefficient Lighting in Long Beach
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					&lt;P&gt;ROSEMEAD, Calif., June 2, 2008 — Southern California Edison (SCE),&amp;nbsp; in partnership with the city of Long Beach, will swap new, efficient lamps for old ones during “Operation Light Exchange” June 7 and 8 at a Wal-Mart in Long Beach, Calif. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The energy-efficiency event promotes the use of ENERGY STAR-labeled lamps and compact fluorescent bulbs, which use a fraction of the energy of traditional fixtures and incandescent bulbs. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;“Everyone wins at this kind of event — especially the environment,” said Gene Rodrigues, director of SCE’s Energy Efficiency Division. “This exchange event is another opportunity for customers to save energy, money and the environment by updating their lighting — and it doesn’t cost anything except a trip to the site and an old lamp.”&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Operation Light Exchange and other SCE programs have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2 million tons — the equivalent of removing 250,000 cars from the road. And during the next two years, SCE will help customers save an additional 2 billion kilowatt-hours, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by another 1 million tons.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Lamps eligible for exchange&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Lamps that will be considered for exchange are halogen torchieres, desk lamps, table lamps and floor lamps (there is no need to bring the lamp shades), and they only can be traded for the same type. The offer is open only to SCE residential customers, who must bring a copy of their bill and/or their driver’s license with a ZIP code that falls within SCE territory. There is a limit of 10 lamps per household until the lamps run out.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Event information&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8&lt;BR&gt;Wal-Mart&lt;BR&gt;7250 Carson Blvd.&lt;BR&gt;Long Beach, Calif. 90808&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Customers can log on to &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.scelampexchange.com&quot;&gt;www.scelampexchange.com&lt;/A&gt; or call 800-865-6483 for further details or to ask questions.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Contact:&amp;nbsp; Vanessa McGrady, &lt;/STRONG&gt;(626) 302-2255&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;mailto:vanessa.mcgrady@sce.com&quot;&gt;vanessa.mcgrady@sce.com&lt;/A&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.edisonnews.com&quot;&gt;www.edisonnews.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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