General Rate Case FAQs / Fact Sheet / Infographic

Customers experiencing fewer outages, faster power restoration and continued improvements to the safe delivery of reliable electric service – these are a few of the priorities addressed in Southern California Edison’s 2025 General Rate Case, which was filed today with the California Public Utilities Commission.

Other priorities include:

• Building on achievements in wildfire risk reduction;
• Boosting electric grid resilience to withstand rising threats from extreme weather and cyberattacks; and
• Ensuring the grid’s readiness for rapid growth in customer demand for energy.

SCE’s request continues its urgent wildfire prevention program, including the addition of 1,250 miles of coated wire between 2025-2028. At the same time, SCE plans to ramp up the traditional “nuts-and-bolts” work of replacing aging grid equipment across its service area to preserve grid health and reliability.

With customers adding more electric vehicles and clean energy technologies, SCE also expects to continue modernizing and upgrading the grid to prepare for the largest expected increase in electricity demand in decades.

“SCE’s emphasis on foundational investments will further strengthen the electric grid,” said Colin Lavin, business manager and financial secretary for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 47, whose members are on the front lines of keeping power flowing to 15 million residents in SCE’s service area.

“These investments foster worker and public safety, protect the electric grid against the impacts of extreme weather and support IBEW members in their work to keep service reliable and the lights on for customers,” he said.

Strengthening the electric grid is also a major concern for Dustin Gardner, fire chief of the Ventura County Fire Department.

“SCE is a critical partner to California’s firefighting community, and in recent years they’ve made significant progress in reducing wildfire risk,” said Gardner. “There’s more work ahead, and with public safety at stake, we must continue this partnership and invest in hardening the electric grid against the rising threats of extreme weather events.”

“This request comes at a crucial turning point in California’s clean energy transformation,” said Russell Archer, director of SCE’s General Rate Case. “In the near future, the electric grid will support vastly more renewable energy. Many more customers are adding electric vehicles, battery storage and electric heat pumps in their home and work lives, a trend that’s only increasing. That’s one reason why this GRC request is vital for SCE to continue meeting customers’ needs today while also preparing for that future.”

If the commission approves SCE’s full request, the average monthly bill for residential customers would increase by about $17 in 2025, and about $5 each year thereafter through 2028. The impacts will be less for lower-income customers enrolled in SCE’s Bill Assistance Programs — about $12 in 2025, $3 in 2026 and 2027 and $4 in 2028.

"SCE understands that rate increases are difficult for customers," said Archer. “This GRC request balances the need to keep customer bills manageable with the necessary work to strengthen reliability, resilience and readiness to meet rapidly growing customer needs.”

The General Rate Case is a regulatory process conducted by the CPUC that determines how much investor-owned utilities like SCE can charge customers for electric service. Utilities submit a rate case to request funding of day-to-day operations for an established four-year spending cycle. This SCE request covers the years 2025-2028. (See this Fact Sheet.)