SCE Aims to Turn Electric Grid from One-Way Street to Two-Way Electricity Freeway

SUGAR LAND--November 23, 2015--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Southern California Edison (SCE) (Rosemead, California), the utility unit of Edison International (NYSE:EIX) (Rosemead), wants to shift its capital spending for the next few years. The utility, which serves nearly 14 million people in a 50,000-square mile of Southern, Central and Coastal California, filed a request to refocus its $4 billion annual capital spend to turn its existing electric transmission and distribution grid from a one-way street to a two-way electricity freeway, where electrons flow in both directions--from the utility to customers and from customers to the utility. That's no small task: SCE maintains over 90,000 miles of distribution lines and 720,000 distribution transformers.

Within this article: Details information from July 1 filing with California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) (Sacramento, California).