Southern California Edison Company

SoCal Edison Girds Public For Summer Power Outages

Uh, this doesn't sound good. A day after federal judges ruled that Southern California Edison (SCE) can't reopen its troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) without a full public review--something that won't happen for months--SCE is announcing a Friday media relations meeting to dis ... More >>

Federal Judges Rule San Onofre Can't Reopen Without Full Public Hearing

In yet another major setback for the scandal-plagued San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) has ruled that the power plant may not open without a full public review. In doing so, the panel of federal judges granted a petition filed by the enviro ... More >>

Cops Raid Illegal Fountain Valley Pot Grow

Southern California Edison (SCE) apparently doesn't like it when you illegally tap into the company's electrical grid to power your indoor marijuana grow. So when it realized that whoever was living at the house in the 10700 block of El Rubi Circle was was pirating an inordinate amount of electricit ... More >>

[UPDATE: Hearing Scheduled, But Where?] SCE Scrambling For Ways to Turn On Troubled San Onofre Nuke Plant

*See end of post for an update.Original Post, March 22, 12:41 p.m.: For months, Southern California Edison has been trying to avoid having to go through a lengthy regulatory process that would force the company to prove that continued operation of the company's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ... More >>

San Onofre Nuke Officials Buried Evidence Of Problems, Report Says

Last week, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) released a report showing that both that company and Southern California Edison (SCE) knew that replacement steam generators built by Mitsubishi for SCE's San Onofre Nuclear Generating system had major design problems as far back as 2005. The report furth ... More >>

Expert Testimony Explains Errors in San Onofre Nuke Plant Saga

It's been more than a year since the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) ceased providing power to Southern California residents. The aging plant had already retired one of its three reactors years ago, but lost the other two in December 2011 when officials discovered that thousands of tub ... More >>

San Onofre Nuclear Plant Restart Proposed

Southern California Edison (SCE) announced today that it has submitted a proposal to federal regulators to restart one of two mothballed reactors at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The plan would have Unit 2 run at 70 percent power for five months, shut down again and re-inspected ... More >>

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Report Blames Computer-Model Errors for Woes

A final inspection report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on the steam generator tube wear that has kept both reactors offline at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) since January blames computer model errors for the design flaws.

[UPDATED with Edison Objection to Weekly Report:] Design Flaws Confirmed at San Onofre Nuclear Plant

See update at end of post where Southern California Edison takes issue with the Weekly's original report earlier this morning.ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 19, 8:58 A.M.: Design flaws resulted in San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) generators being unable to handle too high a flow of radioactive wat ... More >>

It's Officially a Bummer Summer for San Onofre Nuclear Plant

Southern California Edison has officially confirmed what has been assumed for weeks: its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station will not come back online this summer.The power giant is now looking at an August restart.

[UPDATED with "Industry Winning":] San Onofre Nuclear Plant Reopening Pushed Back as 1,300 More Damaged Tubes Found

UPDATE, MAY 21, 5:23 P.M.: The energy director of a Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group calls Gregory Jaczko's resignation as chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) "a terrifying example of industries trying to wreak havoc on those who regulate them-and winning.""Jaczko sou ... More >>

[UPDATED with Radiation Report OK'd:] Water Leak Shuts Down San Onofre Nuke Unit

​UPDATE, FEB. 23, 10:01 A.M.: The San Clemente City Council is to receive a staff report March 20 that should help city leaders decide whether more radiation monitoring should be done in the town 2 miles from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).Some residents have called for stepped- ... More >>

[UPDATED with HB Outage:] Electrical Vault Blast Knocks Out Power to 2,000

​UPDATE, FEB. 15, 9:17 P.M.: Southern California Edison repair crew members must have felt as if they were stuck in a Godfather 3 scene last night, for just when they thought they were out (in Lake Forest), they were back in (in Huntington Beach). Specifically, as power was near completely restore ... More >>

San Onofre Nuclear Plant Targeted in Ballot Proposal That Can Start Collecting Signatures

​Signatures can be collected for a state voter initiative that would effectively shut down San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.California's only other operating nuclear power plant in Diablo Canyon would also be mothballed should such a measure pass.Ben Davis Jr., the Santa Cruz activist who fo ... More >>

15,000 OC Third-Graders Pack Angels Stadium to Get Brainwashed by Corporations, Political Hacks on OC "History"

​Until yesterday, the most-infamous case of OC mass schoolkid indoctrination was a 1961 rally at Glover Stadium in Anaheim held by the Orange County School of Anti-Communism, a red-baiting machine whose members included Walter Knott and the Rev. Robert A. Schuller, and whose paranoia set the stage ... More >>

[UPDATED with Normal Ops Resumed:] San Onofre Nuclear Plant "Non-Radioactive" Leak Prompts Evacuation

​UPDATE, NOV. 2, 8:15 A.M.: Before we tell you normal operations have resumed at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) and the county has deactivated its Emergency Operations Center, has anyone suggested the incident was a heavenly prank pulled by recently crossed no-nuker Jeanie Bernstein ... More >>

San Onofre Officials: Our Nuke Plant's 100 Times Safer Than High School!

​There's an interesting story on NBC San Diego's website about a wrongful-termination lawsuit that's apparently just been filed against Southern California Edison (SCE), the company that owns and operates the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, or SONGS. The suit was filed by Paul Diaz, a plant ... More >>

Japan Radiation No Threat to California, Officials Say

​Maybe it's the fact that Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has already suffered several explosions, is currently leaking radiation into the air, and seems to be headed toward total meltdown. Maybe it's the fact that a cold pressure system is sucking cold wind out of China and Korea and sendin ... More >>

Oh Really? OC Nuke Plant Safe, Say Nuke Plant Officials

​Now this is a big relief: Southern California Edison, which operates the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, or SONGS, says that their nuke plant--you know, those two pendulous white domes on the beach between San Clemente and Camp Pendleton--is totally safe. And by "totally safe," they mean i ... More >>

Huntington Beach Zapped With Widespread Power Outage

​Readers following the Weekly on Twitter claim there is a big power outage in Huntington Beach right now, something Southern California Edison has confirmed.OUTAGE DETAILSCity: HUNTINGTON BEACH Start time: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:58 PM Problem description: There is currently a wide spread pow ... More >>

Coal-Mountain Mama Julia Bonds Talks to the Tree-Huggers

​What's an Applachian coal-mining foe doing in the GOP tea party stronghold of Orange County?"She's red meat for the eco-nuts," said Ed Amador, co-organizer of Saturday's Treehuggers' Ball in bucolic Baker Canyon for the Canyon Land Conservation Fund. There was more vegan cheese than beef at this ... More >>

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Utility Giant, Texas Oil Companies Fight Back With California Voter Initiatives

​An anti-tax group and a coalition of businesses quietly led by Texas oil companies have launched a signature drive for a November ballot initiative that would suspend California's pioneering law to combat global warming.Meanwhile, a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)-bankrolled measure that cons ... More >>

San Onofre's Nuclear Roller Coaster

​For those on both sides of the debate over whether to fire up the Unit 2 reactor at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), last week was a roller coaster.

Love's Labor Lost

Filmmaker’s message to protesters: Sometimes a red carpet is just a red carpet

Dirty Money

If you want to pollute in Orange County, its best to be a multinational

The Cuban Solution

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is running out of steam. But Edison has a crazy plan to save it.

The Plight of Dwight

Blame the Democrats

They need to stop acting like drunks at court-ordered AA meetings and sober up

Zapped!

OC manufacturer says Edisons demand for $31,000 deposit is extortion

Monopoly Man

The dailies slept while Edison bosss income rose to $503,000 per month

Son of Scary

Evil spawn of OCs Scariest People

Press Clips

Why did the Metro kill Hugh Hewitt's piece on Larry Agran?

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a mad county

The Evil Among Us

Diary of a Mad County

Home Run

Eddie and Jo Ellen Allen have their very own housing crisis

Red, White and Pissed-Off

Moxley responds to Jo Ellen Allens response to God Bless America!

Fountain Valley

Few fountains, no valley

Privilege Has its Membership

Letters

Anti-Nuclear War

Linda McLandrich says she lost her husband to San Onofre but swears she wont lose again

He Learned It by Watching Bob!

Former Dornan aide Brian Bennett promises to save SoCal Edison by any means necessary

Poor Edison

Now broke, the power company uses taxpayer cash to fund a global business empire

Electric Doomsday!

How Edison convinced you that deregulation reform was a bad idea

High Camp

Ode to Sneaky Pete

Nuclear industry exposes ex-governor's Ward Valley lie

White Trash Disco

Bob Dornan's shameful final hours

They Froze Silva's Brain

Head Supervisor lacks the vision thing