Exhibit 25.1

 
                         POWER OF ATTORNEY  
  
  
        KNOW ALL MEN AND WOMEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the   
undersigned constitutes and appoints David R. Clark and Nad A.   
Peterson, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-  
fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and   
resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead,
in any and all capacities, to execute a Registration Statement on Form
S-3 and any and all amendments and supplements thereto under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with respect to the Common Stock
Investment Plan (the "Plan") of San Diego Gas & Electric Company, a
California corporation ("SDG&E"), which Registration Statement shall
register the offer and sale of additional common stock of SDG&E and
Plan interests pursuant to the Plan, and to file the same, with
exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-
fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be
done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could
do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or his or her substitute or substitutes
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  
  
  
Dated April 25, 1995                         /s/ Thomas A. Page          
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                                            Thomas A. Page     

Dated April 25, 1995                        /s/ Richard C. Atkinson  
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                                            Richard C. Atkinson  
  
Dated April 25, 1995                        /s/ Ann Burr                       
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                                            Ann Burr  
  
Dated April 25, 1995                       /s/ Richard A. Collato               
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                                           Richard A. Collato  
  
Dated April 25, 1995                      /s/ Daniel W. Derbes                 
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                                          Daniel W. Derbes     

Dated April 25, 1995                     /s/ Catherine T. Fitzgerald           
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                                         Catherine T. Fitzgerald     

Dated April 25, 1995                     /s/ Robert H. Goldsmith             
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                                         Robert H. Goldsmith  
  
Dated April 25, 1995                    /s/ William D. Jones                  
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                                        William D. Jones  
  
Dated April 25, 1995                   /s/ Ralph R. Ocampo                   
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                                       Ralph R. Ocampo  
  
Dated April 25, 1995                   /s/ Thomas C. Stickel                   
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                                       Thomas C. Stickel