SGV

Currently, the SGVCOG partners with Southern California Edison (SCE) and the Southern California Gas Company to address energy needs, as well as efficiency and environmental issues.

Southern California Edison (SCE) provides power to an average of 13 million people, 180 cities in 50,000 square miles of service area, encompassing 11 counties in central, coastal and Southern California, including the San Gabriel Valley. They help their customers stretch their energy dollars through rebates, which they can receive through SCE's award-winning energy efficiency programs. The San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments participates in such programs.

As part of SCE’s commitment to environmental protection, the electric power they provide their customers includes more alternate and renewable energy (16.7%), from a greater variety of resources, than nearly any other utility in the world. They have been active in efforts to improve Southern California air quality since the 1940s.

SCE is also an active donor to community and educational causes. SCE employee volunteers annually donate more than 700,000 hours of work to community and non-profit organizations.

SCE's ethnically and culturally diverse customer base contains one of the largest concentrations of non-English speaking residents in California. An emphasis on diversity strategies, operational goals and accountability helped SCE maintain its rank in the top tier of Fortune magazine's annual list of the top 50 companies in America for ethnic minorities, placing high on the list at number eight. This is SCE's seventh consecutive year receiving this recognition, which highlights the company's commitment to develop a work force of first-rate professionals that embraces diversity and reflects the customers it serves.

Southern California Gas Co. (The Gas Company) has been delivering clean, safe and reliable natural gas to its customers for more than 140 years. It is the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility, serving a population of 20.1 million consumers through 5.6 million gas meters in more than 500 communities, encompassing approximately 20,000 square miles, among which is the San Gabriel Valley.

In 1867, Los Angeles Gas Company, the forerunner of today's Southern California Gas Company, installed 43 new gas lamps along Main Street, making the Los Angeles safer at night and renewing hopes for the city's future. The Company was enjoying modest success until Thomas Edison introduced his new electric light in 1879. With the future of the gas lamp business uncertain, the Company began looking for other uses for gas and Los Angeles soon had its first gas stove and heater.

By the early 20th century, natural gas - a colorless, odorless gas found in association with oil underground - was starting to gain attention. Since natural gas had twice the heating value of manufactured gas, the Company took the bold step to convert its system to natural gas and build pipelines throughout the state. Natural gas was soon found throughout the country, and demand for the fuel was rapidly growing. In 1941, the Company introduced a new system to the Southwest - Underground Storage of natural gas.

Today, in total, The Gas Company delivers nearly 1 trillion cubic feet of gas annually, or about 5% of all the natural gas delivered in the U.S. Each year: 1) Field Technicians complete approximately 4 million service orders; 2) the Call Center representatives answer 10 million phone calls in multiple languages; and 3) the Meter Readers walk over 933,000 miles.

The Azusa water utility was established on April 1, 1901 with initial capital of $537.50. The City was a major shareholder of the Azusa Agricultural Water Company in addition to its municipal water system. Azusa has always relied on ground water to provide water to its citizens and businesses.

The Azusa electric utility was the successor to Azusa Electric Light & Power Company in 1904 for $2,300 and formally established its municipal electric utility. Electricity was purchased wholesale from the Sierra Electric Company and then distributed retail to our citizens and businesses. After Southern California Edison acquired Sierra Electric Company in 1917, Azusa began to buy electricity wholesale from SCE.

In the early 1980s, Azusa joined several other California municipal utilities allowing the Department to purchase energy in the open market.

Pasadena Water & Power (PWP) has provided customers with reliable electric service for nearly a century. As a community-owned utility, PWP's first priority is to serve our customers.

As the City of Pasadena has grown and prospered through the years, so has Pasadena Water & Power. During the Great Depression they provided much-needed jobs, and in World War II they pitched in with the war effort. In recent years, PWP has contributed to city services that improve the quality of life for everyone who lives and works in Pasadena - services like fire and police protection, street lights and maintenance, community centers and assistance to low-income residents.

Pasadena Water & Power customers have made an "investment" that continues to work for the mutual benefit of the community and the City of Pasadena.