Company: SCE-PL
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0000827052-25-000086
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Company: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON Co
Filing Date: 2025-09-19
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 8.01
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Item 8.01

Other Events

In October 2024, SCE filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission (“ CPUC”) to seek cost recovery of prudently incurred losses related to the 2018 Woolsey Fire and of restoration costs incurred related to the Woolsey Fire. On September 19, 2025, SCE will file a motion in the cost recovery proceeding seeking approval of a settlement agreement between SCE, the Public Advocates Office at the CPUC, the Energy Producers and Users Coalition and Small Business Utility Advocates(the “ Woolsey Settlement Agreement”). Other parties to the proceeding may oppose or take no position on the Woolsey Settlement Agreement.

Under the Woolsey Settlement Agreement, if approved by the CPUC, SCE will be authorized to recover 35%, or approximately $2.0 billion, of approximately $5.6 billion of losses, consisting of approximately $1.6 billion of uninsured claims paid as of May 31, 2025, and $0.4 billion of costs, comprised of legal costs paid as of May 31, 2025, and estimated financing costs. SCE will also be authorized to recover 35% of losses paid after May 31, 2025. SCE’s requests for recovery exclude $250 million of uninsured claims and related financing costs which SCE waived its right to seek recovery of under the SED Agreement entered into between SCE and the Safety and Enforcement Division of the CPUC in October 2021. Subject to approval of the Woolsey Settlement Agreement, SCE will request approval from the CPUC to finance the amounts authorized under the Woolsey Settlement Agreement through the issuance of securitized bonds. The parties agreed that if SCE’s anticipated application for securitization is denied, the authorized amounts will be recovered in rates over five years, financed using long-term debt.

Further, SCE will be authorized to recover approximately $71 million of approximately $84 million in restoration costs incurred. In the Woolsey Settlement Agreement, SCE also waived its right to seek recovery of uninsured losses tracked in a Wildfire Expense Memorandum Account and incurred in connection with fires that ignited prior to July 12, 2019, the date AB 1054 was adopted. SCE estimates that the waived pre-AB 1054 losses are approximately $157 million.

If the Woolsey Settlement Agreement is approved, SCE will be allowed to permanently exclude any after-tax charges to equity associated with the costs disallowed or waived in the Woolsey Settlement Agreement and the debt issued to finance those costs from