Company: SCE-PL
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000827052-25-000022
Chunk: 192

Company: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 192
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 This change will require modernization of the electric distribution grid to, among other things, accommodate two-way flows of electricity and increase the grid's capacity to interconnect DERs. In addition, enabling California's clean energy economy goals will require sustained investments in grid modernization, renewable integration projects, energy efficiency programs, energy storage options and electric vehicle infrastructure. If SCE is unable to operate efficiently and adapt to these changes, its business model, its ability to execute on its strategy, and ultimately its financial condition and results of operations could be materially impacted.

Customer-owned generation and load departures to CCAs or Electric Service Providers each reduce the amount of electricity that customers purchase from utilities and have the effect of increasing utility rates unless customer rates are designed to allocate the costs of the distribution grid across all customers that benefit from its use. For example, some customers in California who generate their own power are not currently required to pay all transmission and distribution charges and non-bypassable charges, subject to limitations, which results in increased costs for other customers. If there are not updates in regulations to further support the need for customers pay their share of transmission and distribution costs and non-bypassable charges, for example through a higher fixed charge, and the demand for electricity reduces so significantly that SCE is no longer effectively able to recover such costs from its customers, SCE's business, financial condition and results of operations will be materially impacted.

In addition, the FERC has opened transmission development to competition from independent developers, allowing such developers to compete with incumbent utilities for the construction and operation of transmission facilities. 

For more information. See "Business—SCE—Competition."

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RISKS RELATING TO EDISON INTERNATIONAL AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY

Cybersecurity and Physical Security Risks

Successful attacks on SCE information and operational technology systems and infrastructure could have a material impact on SCE's operations or financial condition 

Edison International and SCE systems, assets and personnel are targets for physical and cyber attacks. Regulators such as NERC and U.S. Government agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Energy, have increasingly stressed that threat sources continue to seek to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in the U.S. national electric grid and other critical energy infrastructures, and that such attacks and disruptions, both physical and cyber, are highly sophisticated and dynamic. Several U.S. Government agencies have highlighted the increasing risks related to physical and cybersecurity attacks, including ransomware attacks, related to the electric sector, including its