Southern California Edison Co late fee
California · Investor Owned
Southern California Edison Co charges 0.6% for a residential electric bill paid late.
- Percentage fee
- 0.6% of the past-due balance
- Grace period
- 19 days
- Can disconnect
- Yes, for non-payment
- Percentile
- Higher than 3% of US utilities that charge a percentage fee
- Residential customers
- 3,219,520
Late fees versus bad debt, 2024
- Late-fee revenue
- $34,990,463 (FERC account 450, Forfeited Discounts)
- Written off
- $285,220,067 (FERC account 904, Uncollectible Accounts)
- Ratio
- 0.12x
Source: US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC Form 1, accounts 450 and 904 (18 CFR Part 101), retrieved via the Public Utility Data Liberation project. Municipal utilities and most cooperatives do not file Form 1, so no ratio is available for them.
Disconnections in 2024
- Disconnections
- 88,061 for non-payment
- Rate
- 1.9 per 100 residential customers
- Final notices
- 815,094
- Reconnections
- 64,116
Counts are disconnection events, not households. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-112. See how this compares.
0.6%/mo of total unpaid balance if not paid by due date, 19-day terms (Southern California Edison; CPUC Rule 9 / Residential Collections FAQ) - low, CA CPUC pattern
Source: https://www.sce.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/Residential_Collections_FAQ_0922_WCAG.pdf