Southern California Edison

The Southern California Edison or SCE Corp, is a supra-regional electricity supply companies in the metropolitan area of Southern California. The SCE Corp is also the largest subsidiary of Edison International Holding. It supplies about 5,000 industrial enterprises, 14,000 businesses, and around 14 million private customers with electrical energy.

The SCE Corp. owns and operates all the power lines in its area of ​​supply and operates 16 so-called Interconnections within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation with neighboring network operators. One of the biggest Interconnections is the so -called Path 26 in Los Angeles County with the Pacific Gas and Electric ( PG & E), which is designed for a transmission capacity of 3.6 GW.

As part of the deregulation had to sell SCE owned power plants, including all gas power plants. Owned by the SCE only some hydropower plants with a total capacity of 1.2 GW and a 75 % interest in the San Onofre nuclear power plant have remained.