Deal struck with utility, California governor says

  • 09/04/2001

Gov. Gray Davis announced today that he had signed an agreement with Southern California Edison, the state's second-largest utility, that is intended to restore the troubled utility to financial health. For months the governor has been negotiating with the state's three largest utilities to buy their transmission lines, giving them much-needed cash to help pay off the more than $12 billion in debt they have incurred since electricity prices began soaring last May.