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Year-to-Date Earnings Summary

Edison International reported GAAP earnings of $1.94 per share for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2009, compared to $3.03 per share for the same period last year. Core earnings for the first nine months of 2009 were $2.66 per share compared to $3.18 per share for the same period in 2008. Non-core items included an $0.85 per share charge from the global tax settlement with the Internal Revenue Service and the associated termination of Edison Capital’s cross-border, leveraged leases, SCE’s third quarter non-core items discussed above and discontinued operations at EMG.

Year-to-Date Earnings Detail

SCE’s GAAP earnings through September 30, 2009 were $3.23 per share compared to $1.66 per share in the same period last year. Core earnings for the first nine months of 2009 were $2.17 per share compared to $1.81 per share for the same period in 2008. The increase in core earnings reflects higher operating income related to the GRC decision and lower nonoperating expenses, partially offset by higher income tax expense. SCE’s year-to-date core earnings exclude the impact of the global tax settlement, the impact from the transfer of the Mountainview power plant to utility rate base in 2009 and the CPUC’s performance-based ratemaking decision in 2008.

EMG’s GAAP loss through September 30, 2009 was $1.38 per share compared to GAAP earnings of $1.47 per share in the same period last year. Year-to-date core earnings for EMG were $0.55 per share compared to $1.47 per share in the same period last year. This decrease reflects lower income at its coal- and gas-fired projects driven by lower energy prices as well as lower trading income, lower earnings at Edison Capital and the favorable buy-out of a coal contract in 2008. EMG’s year-to-date core earnings exclude the impacts of the global tax settlement together with discontinued operations.

Edison International parent company and other reported GAAP earnings through September 30, 2009 of $0.09 per share, compared to a loss of $0.10 per share in the same period last year. GAAP earnings include a $0.15 per share benefit in the first half of 2009 related to the global tax settlement.

2009 Earnings Guidance

The company narrowed its 2009 earnings guidance range to $2.23 to $2.43 per share on a GAAP basis and $2.95 to $3.15 per share on a core basis. See the risk disclosure statement on page 4 and the presentation accompanying the company’s conference call for further information.