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Southern California Edison (SCE) delivers electricity to customers in Southern and Central California, excluding Los Angeles. Its services include power distribution, energy efficiency programs and renewable energy integration. SCE works to provide reliable and sustainable energy solutions to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
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Reviewed Nov. 28, 2025
I live in San Bernardino area and I often suffered of power outages. On Thanksgiving day11/26/25, I have a power outage, all my food got spoiled and I end up throwing it away. I did not see any of SCE making any repairs as they indicated on their website! Also, the city of San Bernardino doesn’t do anything to help the community when we have power outages! SCE is the worse and the city does not offer any assistance even that we paid our taxes!
Reviewed Nov. 27, 2025
They are terrible. The company is horrendous. They have a major power outage on the night before Thanksgiving while people are preparing for their families. Then they drag their feet trying to restore power. They are a mismanaged company, their infrastructure is horrendous my horrible. So now my food will spoil before power is restored. Greedy corporations. Their customer service is pathetic and almost nonexistent.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2025
I wish they had zero stars. These people are ridiculous, you can't even get a hold of anyone. The online experience sucks and I need help changing things on my account. It just keeps sending me links to get me nowhere. You can't even get a hold of a

Reviewed Nov. 18, 2025
Worst customer service experience of my life. You cannot get anyone on the phone. Their AI phone support just spins you around in circles and completely wastes your time. Horrible the government gives us no other options but this. So frustrated with this company.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2025
Very pricy electricity monopoly that deserves regulatory scrutiny and limits on prices. Very very unreasonable delivery fees which can go higher than the explicit per kwh rate. While the advertised rate is ¢25 to ¢35 per kwh, the actual final price is over ¢55-60. The company is misleading but we don't have any choices. I guess the only way to fight against these monopoly is to use 100% solar and off the grid. They should be heavily fined and taxed.
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2025
if I could give them zero stars I would. I can see why they only have a one star rating. I’ve had the worst experience with Edison in the past few weeks. Their customer service is terrible and they do not know how to manage their payment system or treat their customers. A few weeks ago they took my monthly payment twice and they left my account in the negative. I called them the same day and told them that they took every single last penny out of my account and that I have other bills to pay and She told me a credit was applied to my account. I told her to cancel the credit, that I did not need a credit on the Edison account. I needed the money that they took back in my bank account to pay bills that I had to Pay. She assured me she put in the request to have the money refunded and and that I would have it in 7 to 10 business days.
Day eight comes along. I still do not have the money in my account so I called them again and I let them know that I ended up having to borrow money to make ends meet thanks to them and that I just wanted an update on when I will have the money back so I can pay the person back who let me the money. I then was told that whoever I spoke to a week ago was wrong and misinformed me, and that I will not have the money back for 30 days which at this point I’ve already borrowed the money and paid the bills I needed to pay.
I’ve moved on. I’m willing to wait 30 days until the money is refunded then this morning I see on my account that the credit they were supposed to remove is still on my account and they applied it to this month's bill. Problem is they used the credit that I’m not even supposed to have that they were supposed to cancel on top of that instead of them taking the money out of my bank account that I have set on autopay. They took it out of the credit that I wasn’t supposed to have. Problem is that they didn’t process my automatic payment on the due date. They put the credit towards my bill 1 day past due. I’ve never had a past due payment in my life. I take my credit very seriously.
I called them again, and I told him I wanted to speak to a supervisor. Instead of transferring me right away they made me go through a whole unneeded conversation of somebody telling me maybe this maybe that I told him I did not want to hear maybe and that I wanted to talk to somebody who could tell me for sure what is going on with my account and I want the past due notation taken off because I’ve never had a late payment in my life and this whole mess is completely their. I told them I wanted them to cancel the refund and just keep the credit since they used it already being that I still don’t have my refunded money at this point….
Anyways I finally got transferred to a supervisor and I’m honestly not sure if she was a supervisor. It sounded like a call center to me and I was told that they misapplied the credit to my payment so that my payment is still due (past due since they didn’t process my automatic payment due to the credit that was applied). She said the refund is still on its way, and that I she has no idea when I will receive it and I told her well at this point since you guys keep screwing up why can’t I just keep the credit and you cancel the refund? She told me she can’t cancel the refund and I just have to wait.
She informed me that the credit is still going to be canceled and that I need to make that payment, that the credit was applied to yet the system won't let me make it because the credit was already applied on the money so now four weeks later, they have taken multiple payments from me, still have not refunded me my money, did not take the credit off my account then they used it but a day late making my account show paid past due and I have to make them another monthly payment that their system won't let me make because the credit that isn’t supposed to be there in the first place was applied.
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2025
Our parents passed away in 2024 and I had been trying for 10 months to try and transfer their account to our name with no success (I’ve spoken to a live person and wrote a letter including their death certificates) and no sympathy to our situation. We continued to pay but then they turned off service without any notification. Needless to say, I’m livid! They are a terrible company to deal with.
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2025
They doubled my home and business bill, then they make sure their website can't render a bill. They talk about a 13% increase, but that is not supported by the billing. They talk about investment, but they are just tapping their customers. The dividend should be cut to finance their investment.
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2025
Anyone else getting sick with the new AI bots on Edison? Can't get a single answer about the last 5 outages that were all in the last 6 weeks. Additionally, no answers about bills and charges that have increased exponentially since all these outages - often up to 12 hours at a time! So much spoiled food and increased health issues not being able to use medical equipment. Who is responsible for this?
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2025
Anyone else getting sick with the new AI bots on Edison? Can't get a single answer about the last 5 outages that were all in the last 6 weeks. Additionally, no answers about bills and charges that have increased exponentially since all these outages - often up to 12 hours at a time! So much spoiled food and increased health issues not being able to use medical equipment. Who is responsible for this?
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2025
Confusing billing and statements, poor customer service with consistent omission of important information in billing and payments, the most inappropriate outages for people living in the hot desert, and a new AI powered assistant that makes you want to throw your phone across the room. I wish there was another option.
Reviewed Oct. 1, 2025
We had a 7+ hour power outage yesterday, but I was very happy that they had a page on their website where you could look up your outage, and also sign up for status notifications. Although the estimated restoration time kept getting pushed back from 1 pm to 7pm in two hour increments, which is unfortunate but understandable, as sometimes things take longer than you can know, but having those status and estimate updates by text and email were very helpful and appreciated.
Reviewed Sept. 30, 2025
The website is ok. But when I called and talked to an agent regarding changing some info in my account - the lady was friendly first - but then when I couldn’t find my SSN for 30 seconds - she said “Do you have it or not? I can wait only very briefly”. She sounded rude. Even though I waited for 17 minutes to get to talk to an agent, she couldn’t wait 1 minute.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2025
So disappointed with the customer service. You will spend a long time to find out who your planner is, and take forever for them just to response to you, no matter how many time you calls, texts, emails. Once awhile, you will get a response that they will contact you, and same circles, waiting and waiting. They don't even care how RUSH or serious problem. Feel like you are in the communist country, not in US. Your projects will take months, maybe years because of their lack of service. SO BAD!!!
Reviewed Sept. 6, 2025
SCE service is absolutely unreliable. I have had my power shut off so many times and at peak heat for 10 to 12 hours every time, not to mention the times it's out for days. I've lost thousands of dollars in food over and over again and even if you submit a claim for reimbursement, they always find an excuse not to pay you out. If I could pick another company, I would, but I'm in a rural area and don't have another option. If you can avoid them then I suggest you do.
Reviewed Sept. 1, 2025
The worst energy company I have ever seen in my life. Any MINOR weather extremity the power gets shut off. Just take a second to think about this…. Every time SCE shuts off the power, THEY ARE SAVING MONEY WHILE WE STILL PAY. This company should be boycotted. Awful.
Reviewed Aug. 28, 2025
The website doesn't work and it won't let me register for an account. I continued as guest and now I can't create an account. I uploaded sensitive information and have no idea where it went. Please fix the web application and create a legitimate account registration page for new customers.
Reviewed Aug. 26, 2025
They SCREWED us solar users and slapped us with a new $24/month baseline charge. I feel %100 distaste towards them. They caused all the fires, now we ALL have to be pay. Why did I even bother with solar? The worst company I've ever dealt with in 3 states.
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2025
Easily one of the worst if not the worst entity I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. Two days in a row and without warning they have shut off power to my area. I tried to report the outage, but because this company is so incompetent it still believes this report is related to the first outage. I really wish the government would rein in these corrupt **.
Reviewed Aug. 12, 2025
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Reviewed Aug. 5, 2025
SCE has been worse each year. Price per kw usage has gone up every quarter with poor excuses. Services to calls were slower to nonexistent. The latest notifications about power outage regarding time to turn off entire neighborhood: SCE was incapable to meet their plan of power shutdown and back-on. For example: SCE assured power outage to occur on 8/4/25 from 8pm-4am next day, the actual was 8:59pm when power was turned off and SCE did NOT turn power back on until 6:15am. In parallel, SCE sent another msg stated the schedule was changed from 8/4/25 to 8/6/25 just 5 minutes before Power went off on their original date. It is Inconsiderate, Poor level of Urgency, Poor Performance of SCE Leadership and low level of Management.

Reviewed Aug. 2, 2025
Customer service is horrible. You never get a live person and when you escalate, they say someone will call in 24 hours. Been dealing with the same issue since 2021 when they bought the other company and charged me double for my electricity. Now that it was finally resolved 2 years later, they hit me with a 2000 dollar bill. While on the care plan and had solar for most of the year. Asked them to come and charge my meter, they refused. Ask for an extension to pay, they refused. So I reported them to the California Public Utilities Commission. They already have multiple lawsuits because of the fires and they pass that cost on to us. They need to be shut down and checked.

Reviewed July 17, 2025
I am writing to formally express my deep frustration and ongoing disappointment with the level of customer service and treatment I have received from Southern California Edison (SCE). My experiences with this company over the past two years have been distressing, degrading, and unacceptable. Nearly every representative I have encountered—whether over the phone or in person—has treated me with rudeness, hostility, and a complete lack of professionalism. Except for one individual who showed basic courtesy and understanding, the rest of your staff have not only been disrespectful but have also made unfounded and discriminatory accusations against me, including claims of electricity theft. These accusations are both false and deeply offensive, especially considering that your company is fully aware that there has been no such activity on my part.
This type of treatment is not only unfair but also traumatic. I have felt criminalized and harassed by a utility company whose only responsibility should be to provide essential services—not to shame or mistreat its customers. I’ve been left without electricity for two years, an inhumane and unacceptable situation made worse by this company's refusal to turn on service despite my efforts to resolve the matter. To make things even more painful, this negligence contributed to the death of my dog, who suffered due to the lack of basic services. This loss was entirely preventable, and I hold SCE accountable for the consequences of its disregard for human and animal welfare.
Your company has created a living situation so unbearable that I am now actively looking forward to leaving California altogether—just to free myself from being at the mercy of a utility company that has demonstrated nothing but contempt for its customers. It is my sincere hope that in the future, Californians will have access to alternative electric providers and will not be forced to endure the monopolistic control and abusive practices of SCE. I urge SCE to address not only the service issues but also the conduct and training of its staff. No one should have to experience what I’ve endured simply to access electricity, a basic human need.
Reviewed July 15, 2025
Really horrible customer service. Not one phone. Number they have, have someone that can talk with us about any issues or concerns we have. They just disconnect us and not respond any calls. You guys need to work better.

Reviewed July 11, 2025
Customer service is extremely disappointing. The representative had such a strong accent that it was very hard to understand anything, and instead of trying to help, he was argumentative. It was frustrating and unprofessional.
Reviewed June 30, 2025
Where I live Edison is our only choice, and I have so many issues with Edison and their customer service that I do not like, that I can't even fit it all here! Edison has SCAMMED ME out of thousands of dollars! And I can't get any help 😕 I wouldn't leave a star but I have to or it won't let me leave a review!
Reviewed June 4, 2025
I will literally leave California because of SoCal Edison. Over the last 5 years I have lost thousands of dollars worth of stocked up food items that I needed in case of hard times. I lost power over Thanksgiving for 5 days and lost everything. If there are winds, no loss of power but the second they stop, no power for DAYS. Today a 15 minute thunderstorm and of course, power’s out. I’ve lived in tornado and thunderstorm states and rarely lost power. So cal Edison has made me absolutely HATE living in California.
Reviewed May 18, 2025
Power went out randomly in the morning and I was told it would come back on shortly. They’re working on a power line supposedly. 8 hours later and the power is still out. Thanks Edison for an awful Sunday.
Reviewed April 26, 2025
I have solar panels and used to receive a check at the end of year, now I have to pay $299, don’t really care if I don’t get a check but paying 299!!! Is ridiculous, I have more than enough generated power to use and not pay but they’ve figured out a legal way to keep taking money from us, something needs to be done asap. Spoke to cs and asked to speak to a supervisor. They have me on hold for 2 hours!!!! I’m beyond irritated at this point.
Reviewed April 23, 2025
My bill is usually around $35. My bill for January was $73.05 so I called Edison. They asked if I'm using any new electrical appliances. I stated everything is the same as usual. The customer service rep told me on 1/13/25 mine & my neighbor's smart meters were replaced. (I live in a duplex and my neighbor said an Edison technician just showed up, no appointment, and stated he needed to replace the meters.) I asked for a tech to come out and check if the meter is correctly calibrated. She said they can check internally. My February bill was $97.06 so I called again and asked for a tech to come out to check the meter. Again, I was denied. I filed a complaint with the PUC.
Several days later, an SCE rep came out to verify the problem. He found out I was paying my neighbor's bill & vice versa, due to a cross meter. SCE will not credit my account because someone wrote the letter B on the inside panel, under the meter, when it should have been an A for my unit. The PUC is siding with Edison because the homeowner owns the panel. This duplex was built in 1962. The current owner states she does not know who wrote on the panel as she has owned the property for about 15 years.
Why are these technicians not trained to double-check their work? Edison says they are supposed to, but obviously, this guy did not. I've lived here for 11 years and the bill was correct until the meters were replaced. If the tech would have shut off the power after putting in the new meters, he could have confirmed with my neighbor, who was home at the time, that her meter was correctly wired. As a renter, why should I be held responsible for a mistake that an SCE tech made? If Edison can be fooled by a mislabel what other major mistakes are they making?
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