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  "generated_at": "2026-09-02T17:22:40+00:00",
  "clip_source_url": "https://services5.arcgis.com/z6hI6KRjKHvhNO0r/arcgis/rest/services/ICA_Layer/FeatureServer/6",
  "erase_source_url": "https://services3.arcgis.com/bWPjFyq029ChCGur/arcgis/rest/services/ElectricLoadServingEntities_IOU_POU/FeatureServer/0",
  "gross_km2": 135379.52,
  "net_km2": 131456.01,
  "erased_km2": 3923.51,
  "erased_pct": 2.898,
  "erased": [
    {
      "utility": "City of Needles",
      "removed_km2": 1775.32,
      "pct_of_gross": 1.311,
      "reason": "Needles Public Utility Authority retails electricity across a large, almost empty stretch of the Mojave. Large by area, small by meters.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Eastside Power Authority",
      "removed_km2": 1426.25,
      "pct_of_gross": 1.054,
      "reason": "CEC types it POU and 1,426 km2 sits inside SCE. VERIFY before final publication -- confirm it is a retail distributor with its own meters and not a generation/transmission JPA. Low parcel density either way.",
      "verify": true
    },
    {
      "utility": "Pacific Gas & Electric Company",
      "removed_km2": 415.16,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.307,
      "reason": "Neighbouring IOU. 425 km2 of shared-boundary sliver along the northern split counties.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Bear Valley Electric Service",
      "removed_km2": 81.95,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.061,
      "reason": "Separate IOU serving Big Bear. Not SCE despite sitting inside its footprint.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Moreno Valley Utility",
      "removed_km2": 81.3,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.06,
      "reason": "Retail POU, formed 2001, entirely within SCE's published territory.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "City of Industry",
      "removed_km2": 31.3,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.023,
      "reason": "Retail POU serving an industrial city; entirely inside.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "San Diego Gas & Electric",
      "removed_km2": 24.27,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.018,
      "reason": "Neighbouring IOU. Southern boundary sliver.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "City of Cerritos",
      "removed_km2": 22.87,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.017,
      "reason": "Retail POU, entirely inside. Dense -- high parcel impact per km2.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "City of Riverside",
      "removed_km2": 12.68,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.009,
      "reason": "Retail POU, already mostly excluded by SCE's own boundary. Sliver cleanup.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Victorville Municipal Utilities Services",
      "removed_km2": 11.39,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.008,
      "reason": "Retail POU, entirely inside.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "City of Banning Electric Department",
      "removed_km2": 10.6,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.008,
      "reason": "Retail POU.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "City of Anaheim Public Utilities Department",
      "removed_km2": 7.79,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.006,
      "reason": "Retail POU, already mostly excluded. Sliver cleanup.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Colton Electric Utility Department",
      "removed_km2": 6.31,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.005,
      "reason": "Retail POU.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Imperial Irrigation District",
      "removed_km2": 5.81,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.004,
      "reason": "Retails electricity across nearly all of Imperial County. Effectively already excluded -- 5.8 km2 of edge sliver. Confirms Imperial County parcels are almost entirely not SCE's.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "City of Corona Department of Water & Power",
      "removed_km2": 3.55,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.003,
      "reason": "Retail POU, entirely inside.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Azusa Light & Power",
      "removed_km2": 3.09,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.002,
      "reason": "Retail POU.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Utility",
      "removed_km2": 2.58,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.002,
      "reason": "Retail POU, entirely inside.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "City of Vernon Municipal Light Department",
      "removed_km2": 0.56,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.0,
      "reason": "Retail POU, already mostly excluded. Sliver cleanup.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Pasadena Water & Power",
      "removed_km2": 0.53,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.0,
      "reason": "Retail POU, already excluded. Sliver cleanup.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Glendale Water & Power",
      "removed_km2": 0.2,
      "pct_of_gross": 0.0,
      "reason": "Retail POU, fully excluded by SCE's own boundary. Listed for completeness.",
      "verify": false
    },
    {
      "utility": "Burbank Water & Power",
      "removed_km2": -0.0,
      "pct_of_gross": -0.0,
      "reason": "Retail POU, fully excluded by SCE's own boundary. Listed for completeness.",
      "verify": false
    }
  ],
  "kept": [
    {
      "utility": "Metropolitan Water District of So. Cal",
      "reason": "The single largest trap in this layer. MWD is a WHOLESALE WATER agency with no retail electric meters; the CEC includes it because it is a load serving entity for its own pumping load. Erasing it would delete 7,710 km2 -- 5.7% of SCE's territory, and densely populated coastal-plain territory at that. It is the largest overlap in the layer and would look like the most important erase. It is not one."
    },
    {
      "utility": "Power and Water Resource Pooling Authority",
      "reason": "A joint powers authority aggregating agricultural water-pumping accounts across scattered parcels. Not a contiguous retail territory; its customers are still physically served through the incumbent utility's wires."
    },
    {
      "utility": "Los Angeles Department of Water & Power",
      "reason": "OPEN QUESTION, resolve before publication. LADWP's City of Los Angeles core is already excluded by SCE's own boundary (only 7.6% of LADWP's area overlaps). The residual 457 km2 is Owens Valley aqueduct territory in Inyo and Mono, where SCE does serve retail customers. Erasing LADWP whole risks deleting genuine SCE parcels in Inyo/Mono; not erasing it risks keeping a few LADWP-served ones. Decide on parcel counts, not area. Currently kept -- the false-negative is the more damaging error."
    }
  ]
}