Business Update Supplement - SCE 2021 GRC Track 2 Settlement

November 2, 2020

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements contained in this presentation about future performance, including, without limitation, operating results, capital expenditures, rate base growth, dividend policy, financial outlook, and other statements that are not purely historical, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect our current expectations; however, such statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from current expectations. These forward-looking statements represent our expectations only as of the date of this presentation, and Edison International assumes no duty to update them to reflect new information, events or circumstances. Important factors that could cause different results include, but are not limited to the:

  • ability of SCE to recover its costs through regulated rates, including costs related to uninsured wildfire-related and mudslide-related liabilities, costs incurred to mitigate the risk of utility equipment causing future wildfires, costs incurred to implement SCE's new customer service system and costs incurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • ability of SCE to implement its Wildfire Mitigation Plan, including effectively implementing Public Safety Power Shutoffs when appropriate;
  • ability to obtain sufficient insurance at a reasonable cost, including insurance relating to SCE's nuclear facilities and wildfire-related claims, and to recover the costs of such insurance or, in the event liabilities exceed insured amounts, the ability to recover uninsured losses from customers or other parties;
  • risks associated with California Assembly Bill 1054 ("AB 1054") effectively mitigating the significant risk faced by California investor-owned utilities related to liability for damages arising from catastrophic wildfires where utility facilities are alleged to be a substantial cause, including SCE's ability to maintain a valid safety certification, SCE's ability to recover uninsured wildfire-related costs from the insurance fund established under AB 1054 ("Wildfire Insurance Fund"), the longevity of the Wildfire Insurance Fund, and the CPUC's interpretation of and actions under AB 1054, including their interpretation of the new prudency standard established under AB 1054;
  • decisions and other actions by the California Public Utilities Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other governmental authorities, including decisions and actions related to nationwide or statewide crisis, determinations of authorized rates of return or return on equity, the recoverability of wildfire-related and mudslide-related costs, issuance of SCE's wildfire safety certification, wildfire mitigation efforts, and delays in executive, regulatory and legislative actions;
  • ability of Edison International or SCE to borrow funds and access bank and capital markets on reasonable terms;
  • risks associated with the decommissioning of San Onofre, including those related to worker and public safety, public opposition, permitting, governmental approvals, on-site storage of spent nuclear fuel, delays, contractual disputes, and cost overruns;
  • pandemics, such as COVID-19, and other events that cause regional, statewide, national or global disruption, which could impact, among other things, Edison International's and SCE's business, operations, cash flows, liquidity and/or financial results and cause Edison International and SCE to incur unanticipated costs;
  • extreme weather-related incidents and other natural disasters (including earthquakes and events caused, or exacerbated, by climate change, such as wildfires and extreme heat waves), which could cause, among other things, public safety issues, property damage, operational issues (such as rotating outages) and unanticipated costs;
  • physical security of Edison International's and SCE's critical assets and personnel and the cybersecurity of Edison International's and SCE's critical information technology systems for grid control, and business, employee and customer data;
  • risks associated with cost allocation resulting in higher rates for utility bundled service customers because of possible customer bypass or departure for other electricity providers such as Community Choice Aggregators ("CCA," which are cities, counties, and certain other public agencies with the authority to generate and/or purchase electricity for their local residents and businesses) and Electric Service Providers (entities that offer electric power and ancillary services to retail customers, other than electrical corporations (like SCE) and CCAs);
  • risks inherent in SCE's transmission and distribution infrastructure investment program, including those related to project site identification, public opposition, environmental mitigation, construction, permitting, power curtailment costs (payments due under power contracts in the event there is insufficient transmission to enable acceptance of power delivery), changes in the California Independent System Operator's transmission plans, and governmental approvals; and
  • risks associated with the operation of transmission and distribution assets and power generating facilities, including worker and public safety issues, the risk of utility assets causing or contributing to wildfires, failure, availability, efficiency, and output of equipment and facilities, and availability and cost of spare parts.

Other important factors are discussed under the headings "Forward-Looking Statements", "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis" in Edison International's Form 10-K and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on our website: www.edisoninvestor.com. These filings also provide additional information on historical and other factual data contained in this presentation.

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GRC Track 2 update: Proposed settlement allows recovery of $391 million for wildfire mitigation; awaiting CPUC approval

GRC Track 2

Agreement reached with Cal Advocates, TURN, and SBUA to resolve all

settlement reached

issues pending in Track 2 of the 2021 GRC

with intervenors

Covers Wildfire Mitigation Plan MA (WMPMA), Fire Hazard Prevention MA

(FHPMA), and Fire Risk Mitigation MA (FRMMA)

Settlement would

Summary of settlement vs. request

authorize ~82% of

($ in Millions)

Request1

Settlement

O&M and

Approval of O&M

491

401

100% of capital

Reasonableness of Capital2

302

302

Revenue Requirement3

482

391

Revenue requirement expected to be recovered over one year

Will record impact of settlement once CPUC acts and we do not expect a

negative earnings impact

Proposed decision

Administrative Law Judges can elect to hold hearing to better understand

expected within

settlement terms

90 days of

CPUC proposed decision expected in Q1 2021

settlement filing

  1. Request reflects updates made in rebuttal testimony served on September 25, 2020. SCE's rebuttal testimony defers recovery of approximately $16 million of O&M and SCE reserves the right to seek recovery of that amount in Track 3 of the 2021 GRC
  2. Capital expenditures after August 1, 2019, totaling $204 million, are subject to the AB 1054 exclusion from equity rate base and may be recovered through a separate financing order
  3. Revenue requirement lower than total approval primarily because of flow through tax benefits from certain capital expenditures. Capital revenue requirement included mainly represents depreciation, taxes, and return, and excludes the revenue requirement for any capital subject to AB 1054 (approximately $204 million of the $302 million (excluding overheads))

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SCE has CPUC approval or pending settlement for almost all incremental 2018-2019 wildfire mitigation and insurance costs

$ in Millions

Application

Approval/

Additional Information

Request1

GS&RP settlement

159

Approved $476 million capital and $123 million O&M

approved in April2

WEMA approved in

505

CPUC recognized wildfire liability insurance is an

September

important protection for customers and is paid for by

customers as a normal utility cost-of-service

GRC Track 2 settlement

391

Agreed to $401 million of O&M and reasonableness

filed in November;

of $302 million of capital3

PD expected Q1 2021

Do not expect negative earnings impact

CEMA decision

88

Requests cost recovery related to 2017-2018 drought

expected Q1 2021

and 2017 firestorms

Recent and pending approvals will improve cash flow and

begin to work down regulatory asset balance

  1. Amounts refer to approvals for GS&RP and WEMA, settlement agreement for GRC Track 2, and application for CEMA. Total Application/Request refers to revenue requirement
  2. Approved amounts found reasonable by the Settlement Agreement. The Settlement Agreement finds reasonable an additional $33 million in O&M that has not yet been spent as of September 30, 2020. The Application Request of $159 million is the 2018-2020 revenue requirement for amounts found reasonable by the Settlement Agreement. The revenue requirement for the AB 1054 Capital Expenditures is the subject of a separate Application for Financing Order filed July 2020
  3. Cost recovery in revenue requirement is lower than total O&M and reviewed capital because of flow through tax effects and excluded revenue requirement associated with AB 1054 Excluded Capital Expenditures

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Appendix

SCE's 2021 General Rate Case will be approved in four tracks over 2020-2023

Estimated timeline for 2021 General Rate Case tracks and milestones1

SCE

Intervenor

SCE

Opening

CPUC

& Reply

Proposed

Testimony

Testimony

Rebuttal

Briefs

Decision

Track 1: 2021-2023 GRC

Q1 '212

Revenue Requirement

Track 2: 2018-2019 FMA

N/A due to

Q1 '21

Update3

Settlement

Agreement

Track 3: 2020 FMA Update3;

Q1 '21

Q3 '21

Q3 '21

Q4 '21

Q1 '22

2018-2020 GS&RP4

Track 4: RAMP and 2024

Q2 '22

Q1 '23

Q1 '23

Q3 '23

Q4 '23

Attrition Year

  1. The schedule is subject to change over the course of the proceeding
  2. Final decision
  3. Includes Wildfire Mitigation Plan Memo Account, Fire Hazard Prevention Memo Account, Grid Safety and Resiliency Program Memo Account, and Fire Risk Mitigation Memo Account
  4. 2018-2020Grid Safety and Resiliency Program (GS&RP) costs above settlement amount

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