Company: SREA
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001032208-25-000065
Chunk: 381

Company: SEMPRA
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 381
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, with additional potential material exposure if SDG&E’s equipment is determined to be a cause of a fire.

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2025 Wildfire Legislation. We describe the 2025 Wildfire Legislation that was signed into law in September 2025 in Note 1 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. The 2025 Wildfire Legislation established, among other things, the Continuation Account, a new state-administered account with up to $18.0 billion of additional liquidity to reimburse catastrophic wildfire-related claims incurred by large California electric IOUs, including SDG&E, if the Wildfire Fund is depleted. The funds in the account would only be available for claims arising from wildfires that ignited on or after September 19, 2025. The 2025 Wildfire Legislation preserves key elements of the 2019 Wildfire Legislation, including cost recovery standards and requirements, a cap on liability in the event of a finding of imprudence by the CPUC, and continued access to wildfire claims liquidity through the new Continuation Account. All of California’s large electric IOUs, including SDG&E, have elected to participate in the Continuation Account.

If the Continuation Account becomes operative, it would be funded with a combination of $9.0 billion from ratepayer contributions and $9.0 billion from electric IOU shareholder contributions. Electric IOU shareholder contributions totaling $5.1 billion would be obtained through fixed annual contributions of $300 million from 2029 through 2045, plus an additional $3.9 billion in contingent shareholder contributions payable in annual installments of $780 million. SDG&E’s proportionate share of the aggregate shareholder contribution amount through 2045 is expected to be $387 million, comprising (i) $219.3 million of fixed contributions of $12.9 million annually for 17 years, and (ii) $167.7 million of contingent contributions of $33.5 million annually for five years.

The 2025 Wildfire Legislation establishes a multi-stakeholder task force, coordinated by the Wildfire Fund’s administrator, to prepare and submit to the California legislature and Governor of California on or before April 1, 2026, a report that evaluates and sets forth recommendations on new models to complement or replace the Wildfire Fund. If the Wildfire Fund and the Continuation Account, if it becomes operative, are materially diminished, exhausted or terminated, SDG&E would lose the protection afforded by these funds, and as a consequence,