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SDG&E reliability could slip by up to 3.4 minutes from South Orange County outage

SDG&E reliability could slip by up to 3.4 minutes from South Orange County outage

A power outage overnight left 22,525 San Diego Gas & Electric customers in South Orange County without electricity. If power comes back by the utility’s 1 a.m. target, that outage would nudge the systemwide outage-duration metric up by only about 3.4 minutes, according to early calculations from reported milestones. The event is enough to show up in annual reliability stats, but seems too small for now to affect near-term earnings at Sempra, which owns the utility.
16 July 2026
Utilities Stocks Outlook 2026: AI Data Centers, Fed Rate Cuts and Rising Power Bills Put the Sector Back in Focus

Utilities Stocks Outlook 2026: AI Data Centers, Fed Rate Cuts and Rising Power Bills Put the Sector Back in Focus

U.S. utilities stocks are ending 2025 with a split personality. On one hand, the group is still a classic “defensive” trade—regulated cash flows, dividend support, and historically lower volatility than the broader market. On the other, utilities have quietly become one of the most important “real economy” beneficiaries of the AI boom, because every new data center and electrified industrial process ultimately needs one thing: reliable megawatts.
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