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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended

June 30, 2022

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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from

Commission File No.

Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter,
Address of Principal Executive Office and Telephone Number

State of Incorporation

I.R.S. Employer Identification No.

Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report

1-14201

SEMPRA ENERGY

California

33-0732627

No change

488 8th Avenue

San Diego, California 92101

(619) 696-2000

1-03779

SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY

California

95-1184800

No change

8326 Century Park Court

San Diego, California 92123

(619) 696-2000

1-01402

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY

California

95-1240705

No change

555 West Fifth Street

Los Angeles, California 90013

(213) 244-1200



SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OF THE ACT:
Title of Each Class	Trading Symbol	Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
SEMPRA ENERGY:
Common Stock, without par value	SRE	New York Stock Exchange

5.75% Junior Subordinated Notes Due 2079, $25 par value	SREA	New York Stock Exchange

SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY:
None

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY:
None

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Sempra Energy

Yes

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San Diego Gas & Electric Company

Yes

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Southern California Gas Company

Yes

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).

Sempra Energy

Yes

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San Diego Gas & Electric Company

Yes

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Southern California Gas Company

Yes

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Sempra Energy:

☒ Large Accelerated Filer

☐ Accelerated Filer

☐ Non-accelerated Filer

☐ Smaller Reporting Company

☐ Emerging Growth Company

San Diego Gas & Electric Company:

☐ Large Accelerated Filer

☐ Accelerated Filer

☒ Non-accelerated Filer

☐ Smaller Reporting Company

☐ Emerging Growth Company

Southern California Gas Company:

☐ Large Accelerated Filer

☐ Accelerated Filer

☒ Non-accelerated Filer

☐ Smaller Reporting Company

☐ Emerging Growth Company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

Sempra Energy

Yes

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San Diego Gas & Electric Company

Yes

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Southern California Gas Company

Yes

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Sempra Energy

Yes

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San Diego Gas & Electric Company

Yes

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Southern California Gas Company

Yes

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Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuers’ classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.

Common stock outstanding on August 1, 2022:


Sempra Energy			314,310,331 shares
San Diego Gas & Electric Company			Wholly owned by Enova Corporation, which is wholly owned by Sempra Energy
Southern California Gas Company			Wholly owned by Pacific Enterprises, which is wholly owned by Sempra Energy

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Glossary		4
Information Regarding Forward-Looking Statements		7

PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.	Financial Statements	9
	Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
	Note 1. General Information and Other Financial Data	29
	Note 2. New Accounting Standards	47
	Note 3. Revenues	48
	Note 4. Regulatory Matters	51
	Note 5. Acquisitions and Divestitures	53
	Note 6. Investments in Unconsolidated Entities	54
	Note 7. Debt and Credit Facilities	56
	Note 8. Derivative Financial Instruments	58
	Note 9. Fair Value Measurements	64
	Note 10. San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station	72
	Note 11. Commitments and Contingencies	74
	Note 12. Segment Information	83
Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	86
	Overview	86
	Results of Operations	87
	Capital Resources and Liquidity	98
	Critical Accounting Estimates	111
	New Accounting Standards	111
Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	112
Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	113

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	113
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	113
Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	114
Item 6.	Exhibits	115

Signatures		118

This combined Form 10-Q is separately filed by Sempra Energy doing business as Sempra, San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company. Information contained herein relating to any one of these individual reporting entities is filed by such entity on its own behalf. Each entity makes statements herein only as to itself and its consolidated entities and makes no statement whatsoever as to any other entity.

You should read this report in its entirety as it pertains to each respective reporting entity. No one section of the report deals with all aspects of the subject matter. A separate Part I – Item 1 is provided for each reporting entity, except for the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. The Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for all of the reporting entities are combined. All Items other than Part I – Item 1 are combined for the three reporting entities.

None of the website references in this report are active hyperlinks, and the information contained on, or that can be accessed through, any such website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, part of this report.

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The following terms and abbreviations appearing in this report have the meanings indicated below.


GLOSSARY

AB			California Assembly Bill
ADIA			Black Silverback ZC 2022 LP (assignee of Black River B 2017 Inc.), a wholly owned affiliate of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
AFUDC			allowance for funds used during construction
Annual Report			Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021
AOCI			accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
ARO			asset retirement obligation
ASC			Accounting Standards Codification
ASEA			Agencia de Seguridad, Energía y Ambiente (Mexico’s National Agency for Industrial Safety and Environmental Protection)
ASR			accelerated share repurchase
ASU			Accounting Standards Update
Bcf			billion cubic feet
Bechtel			Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Inc.
Blade			Blade Energy Partners
bps			basis points
CalGEM			California Geologic Energy Management Division
Cameron LNG JV			Cameron LNG Holdings, LLC
CCA			Community Choice Aggregation
CCM			cost of capital adjustment mechanism
CENACE			Centro Nacional de Control de Energía (Mexico’s National Center for Energy Control)
CFE			Comisión Federal de Electricidad (Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission)
CFIN			Cameron LNG FINCO, LLC, a wholly owned and unconsolidated affiliate of Cameron LNG JV
COVID-19			coronavirus disease 2019
CPUC			California Public Utilities Commission
CRE			Comisión Reguladora de Energía (Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission)
CRR			congestion revenue right
DOE			U.S. Department of Energy
ECA LNG			ECA LNG Phase 1 and ECA LNG Phase 2, collectively
ECA LNG Phase 1			ECA LNG Holdings B.V.
ECA LNG Phase 2			ECA LNG II Holdings B.V.
ECA Regas Facility			Energía Costa Azul, S. de R.L. de C.V. LNG regasification facility
Ecogas			Ecogas México, S. de R.L. de C.V.
Edison			Southern California Edison Company, a subsidiary of Edison International
EFH			Energy Future Holdings Corp. (renamed Sempra Texas Holdings Corp.)
EPC			engineering, procurement and construction
EPS			earnings (losses) per common share
ESJ			Energía Sierra Juárez, S. de R.L. de C.V.
ETR			effective income tax rate
FEED			Front-End Engineering Design
FERC			Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Fitch			Fitch Ratings
FTA			Free Trade Agreement
Gazprom			Gazprom Marketing & Trading México S. de R.L. de C.V.
GRC			General Rate Case
HOA			Heads of Agreement
IEnova			Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.P.I. de C.V.
IMG			Infraestructura Marina del Golfo
IOU			investor-owned utility
ISO			Independent System Operator
JV			joint venture

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GLOSSARY (CONTINUED)

KKR			KKR Pinnacle Investor L.P. (as successor-in-interest to KKR Pinnacle Aggregator L.P.), an affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.
LA Superior Court			Los Angeles County Superior Court
Leak			the leak at the SoCalGas Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility injection-and-withdrawal well, SS25, discovered by SoCalGas on October 23, 2015
LNG			liquefied natural gas
MD&A			Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Mexican Stock Exchange			Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, S.A.B. de C.V., or BMV
MMBtu			million British thermal units (of natural gas)
Moody’s			Moody’s Investors Service
MOU			Memorandum of Understanding
Mtpa			million tonnes per annum
MW			megawatt
MWh			megawatt hour
NCI			noncontrolling interest(s)
NDT			nuclear decommissioning trusts
NEIL			Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited
O&M			operation and maintenance expense
OCI			other comprehensive income (loss)
OII			Order Instituting Investigation
Oncor			Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC
Oncor Holdings			Oncor Electric Delivery Holdings Company LLC
OSC			Order to Show Cause
PA LNG Phase 1 project			initial phase of the proposed Port Arthur LNG liquefaction export project
PA LNG Phase 2 project			second phase of the proposed Port Arthur LNG liquefaction export project
PG&E			Pacific Gas and Electric Company
PGNiG			Polish Oil & Gas Company
PP&E			property, plant and equipment
PPA			power purchase agreement
PUCT			Public Utility Commission of Texas
RBS			The Royal Bank of Scotland plc
RBS SEE			RBS Sempra Energy Europe
RBS Sempra Commodities			RBS Sempra Commodities LLP
ROE			return on equity
RSU			restricted stock unit
S&P			S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc.
Saavi Energía			Saavi Energía S. de R.L. de C.V.
SB			California Senate Bill
SDG&E			San Diego Gas & Electric Company
SDSRA			Senior Debt Service Reserve Account
SEC			U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
SED			Safety and Enforcement Division of the CPUC
SEDATU			Secretaría de Desarrollo Agrario, Territorial y Urbano (Mexico’s agency in charge of agriculture, land and urban development)
Sempra			Sempra Energy doing business as Sempra, together with its consolidated entities unless otherwise stated or indicated by the context
Sempra California			San Diego Gas & Electric Company and Southern California Gas Company, collectively
SENER			Secretaría de Energía de México (Mexico’s Ministry of Energy)
series A preferred stock			6% mandatory convertible preferred stock, series A
series B preferred stock			6.75% mandatory convertible preferred stock, series B
Shell Mexico			Shell México Gas Natural, S. de R.L. de C.V.
SI Partners			Sempra Infrastructure Partners, LP, the holding company for most of Sempra’s subsidiaries not subject to California or Texas utility regulation

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GLOSSARY (CONTINUED)

SoCalGas			Southern California Gas Company
SONGS			San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
SPA			sale and purchase agreement
Support Agreement			support agreement, dated July 28, 2020 and amended on June 29, 2021, among Sempra and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
TAG			TAG Norte Holding, S. de R.L. de C.V.
TdM			Termoeléctrica de Mexicali
Technip Energies			TP Oil & Gas Mexico, S. De R.L. De C.V., an affiliate of Technip Energies N.V.
U.S. GAAP			generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America
VAT			value-added tax
Ventika			Ventika, S.A.P.I. de C.V. and Ventika II, S.A.P.I. de C.V., collectively
VIE			variable interest entity
Wildfire Fund			the fund established pursuant to AB 1054
Wildfire Legislation			AB 1054 and AB 111

References in this report to “we,” “our,” “us,” “our company” and “Sempra” are to Sempra and its consolidated entities, collectively, unless otherwise stated or indicated by the context. We sometimes refer to SDG&E and SoCalGas collectively as Sempra California, which does not include the utilities in our Sempra Texas Utilities or Sempra Infrastructure segments. All references in this report to our reportable segments are not intended to refer to any legal entity with the same or similar name.

Throughout this report, we refer to the following as Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements when discussed together or collectively:

•the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and related Notes of Sempra;

•the Condensed Financial Statements and related Notes of SDG&E; and

•the Condensed Financial Statements and related Notes of SoCalGas.

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INFORMATION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

We make statements in this report that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions with respect to the future, involve risks and uncertainties, and are not guarantees. Future results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the filing date of this report. We assume no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future ev