SAN DIEGO, April 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, many Americans will take action to improve their communities by planting a tree in support of the Arbor Day Foundation's National Arbor Day.  As the tree celebrations begin, SDG&E is reminding customers and landscapers to plant the "Right Tree in the Right Place" and to practice safe digging by calling

WHAT:  SoCalGas employee volunteers will help families in the city of Pacoima make their homes safer by installing free ten-year lithium battery smoke alarms and conducting battery checks. The volunteer work is part of Southern California Gas Company’s sponsorship of the Home Fire Campaign through a partnership with the American Red Cross Los Angeles Region. SoCalGas is helping the American Red Cross reach its goal of reduce death and injury from home fires by 25 percent by 2020.
 
WHO:   □ Jimmie Cho, senior vice president of gas operations and system integrity for SoCalGas □ Various other

SAN DIEGO, April 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) plans to announce its first-quarter 2017 earnings at 8:30 a.m. EDT, May 9. 

Sempra Energy executives will conduct a conference call at 12 p.m. EDT, May 9.

Investors, media, analysts and the general public may listen to a live webcast of the conference call at the company's website, www

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 24, 2017 – Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced that its power-to-gas project has been selected by the U.S Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to receive up to $175,000 in cost share support for a new technology research and demonstration project at NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF).  SoCalGas and NREL researchers will partner to conduct research to advance the development of power-to-gas technology, a cutting-edge method of storing excess renewable energy.

“Power-to-gas technology has the potential to

LOS ANGELES, Apr. 21, 2017 – Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) hosted nearly 800 environmental and building-industry leaders, along with representatives from more than 75 Southern California municipalities at the 16th Annual Municipal Green Building Conference and Expo (MGBCE) yesterday.  The event is the longest running green building conference in Southern California and was held at SoCalGas’ LEED-certified Energy Resource Center (ERC) in Downey, California. Images from the conference are available here.

“SoCalGas has been a leader in clean energy for decades, and we will continue

WHAT: Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) employees will team up with Friends of Ballona Wetlands and Friends of the Los Angeles River to weed out the invasive plant species and gather litter.  Sample photos from the 2016 clean-up here.

WHO: In celebration of Earth Month, SoCalGas employees have volunteered all month in community service activities across Southern California, including a river clean-up, park clean-up, trash pick-up, removal of invasive plant species and weed abatement.

SoCalGas’ nonprofit partners include: Bolsa Chica Conservancy, Fairview Gardens, Friends of the Ballona

LOS ANGELES, April 21, 2017 – Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced that on April 25 work will begin to replace approximately 5,000 feet of natural gas pipeline on Sepulveda Boulevard between Cashmere Street and Casiano Road, near the campus of University of California, Los Angeles, in West Los Angeles. This effort is part of SoCalGas’ Pipeline Safety Enhancement Plan, a multi-billion-dollar program that tests and/or updates the natural gas pipeline infrastructure in Southern California.   

“Ensuring the integrity of our pipeline system is critical to delivering the safe and

SAN DIEGO, April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) announced that it has signed contracts for five new local battery storage facilities for a total of 83.5 megawatts (MW).  These four-hour energy storage facilities would be like having batteries from more than 5,500 all-electric, long-range vehicles at the ready. In

SAN DIEGO, April 12, 2017 – Sempra Renewables, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, today announced that a study conducted by the University of Nevada, Reno’s Center for Regional Studies and the University Center for Economic Development, College of Business and Ekay Economic Consultants, has determined the company’s Copper Mountain Solar complex outside Boulder City, Nev., will produce more than $2.5 billion in economic benefit to the region’s economy over a 26-year period.

Comprised of four solar installations, the Copper Mountain Solar complex is one of the nation’s largest photovoltaic (PV)