Southern California Edison Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

Opinion

MALLANO, J.

To accommodate the connection of newly created sources of electrical energy to a transmission facility that is part of the national grid, it is often necessary to upgrade the grid at the point of interconnection. Federal law, as set forth in a recent order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), states that the generator of the energy is initially responsible for the costs of the upgrade but further provides that the owner of the transmission facility, typically a public utility such as petitioner Southern California Edison (SCE), may elect to pay those costs.…