Southern California Edison hosted an Edison’s President Customer Breakfast Oct. 17 at the Double Tree Hotel in Torrance. Approximately 100 business customers, including some non-profits, attended this informational session.
Ron Litzinger, Southern California Edison’s president (event keynote speaker) along with Lisa Cagnalotti, vice president of Customer Operations, co-hosted this two-hour educational opportunity.
Southern California Edison hosted an Edison’s President Customer Breakfast Oct. 17 at the Double Tree Hotel in Torrance. Approximately 100 business customers, including some non-profits, attended this informational session.
Ron Litzinger, Southern California Edison’s president (event keynote speaker) along with Lisa Cagnalotti, vice president of Customer Operations, co-hosted this two-hour educational opportunity.
Other participants were several other Southern California Edison Vice Presidents. Cagnalotti and Litzinger said safety was the top priority. Litzinger spoke of fatalities that have impacted lives of citizens who had come in contact with SCE live wires. He stressed not to touch any SCE wires and to call 911.
The company president also talked about Edison’s commitment to the community and several customers gave testimonies to that fact. Customers and Litzinger mentioned electric transportation and how electric vehicles use power to recharge at night during the time when power demand is low. The commitment that SCE has displayed to make sure their customers are educated has been extraordinary, Litzinger said.
Litzinger spoke of needs for infrastructure including transmission and distribution lines that must be built to deliver renewable power to areas where the demand is. These new transmission and distribution lines cost money to be built.
In addition there is the question of where the poles and wires will be placed because everyone wants and needs power, but they don’t want the poles and wires.
“We need to educate everyone so they know renewables are not free,” Litzinger said. “Some folks think SCE should underground everything, but that is very costly. SCE wants to keep rates as low as they can.”
He also gave us a clear explanation of the situation with the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station and the application to the NRC to safely bring Unit 2 back online at 70 percent power for five months and then review the Unit for wear.
Chamber purpose
Those looking for a “perfect avenue” to promote their business need only to look down the street. The Chamber of Commerce is a business network that is made up of business owners in towns and cities that form societies to advocate on behalf of the business community.
The chamber of commerce is a voluntary organization of citizens that is investing its time and money in a community development program—working together to improve economic, civic, and cultural well being of the area.
Local business are the members that elect a board of directors/or executive council to set policy for the chambers.
There are two primary functions of a chamber of commerce: first, it acts as a spokesman for business and professional community and translates the group thinking of its members into action; secondly, it renders a specific product or services type that can be most effectively beneficial by a community organization and to its members as a whole.
“The opportunity is here to contact the Gardena Valley Chamber of Commerce and add yourself as a proud member,” Sara Colamonico of the GVCC said. “We mean business at the Gardena Chamber.”
Those interested can call 310-532-9905 and they will receive information on how to begin or renew a membership.
The Gardena Valley Chamber of Commerce also maintains a roster of members, to help us all network. “Guess what, there are no pest control companies as members,” Colamonico said. “Call us up and come on board, your are very welcome.”
