EXHIBIT 20

FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON

For Release Tuesday, March 28


      EDISON ANNOUNCES PRICE FREEZE FOR HOMES AND SMALL
    BUSINESSES, SETS FIVE-YEAR 25% PRICE REDUCTION GOAL,
                  UNVEILS NEW PRICE OPTIONS

    ROSEMEAD CA, March 28, 1995 -- Southern California Edison
today announced  a broad set of initiatives to provide
customers "lower electricity prices, more pricing options, new
service guarantees and enhanced environmental quality," said
John E. Bryson, chairman and chief executive officer of the
utility.  "By making us more competitive, the initiatives we
are announcing today will benefit our customers and our 
shareholders."

    Edison's plans include the following:

    o   Five-year price cut goal: a goal to reduce Edison's
        system average price from 10.7 cents per kilowatt hour
        today to below 10 cents by the year 2000, a reduction
        of 25% after adjusting for inflation.

    o   Immediate price freeze for homes and small businesses:
        a freeze on average prices for residential, small
        business and small agricultural customers, effective
        immediately, and lasting through 1996. This would
        insulate those customer groups from the increases in
        average prices previously announced for October of
        this year.

    o   Guaranteed service quality:  new service guarantees to
        assure continued high-quality customer service, even
        while electricity prices are being reduced.  Edison
        would pledge to continue meeting demanding standards
        of performance on such matters as service connections
        and restoration of power after storms or would pay
        affected customers if it didn't meet those performance
        standards.

    o   Flexible business pricing choices: new pricing options
        for eligible business customers, including special
        economic development pricing that will help create and
        preserve jobs in Southern California.

    o   State-of-the-art billing options:  new billing options
        for customers, including summary billing,
        pay-by-phone, electronic billing programs, and
        customer-selected billing dates.


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    o   Environmental quality initiatives:  expanded
        shareholder funding of energy efficiency investments,
        enhanced support for environmentally sound electric
        technologies and innovative "Green Pricing" options.

    "These initiatives reflect our commitment to listen to our
customers and respond to their needs," Bryson said. "The
challenges we have set out for ourselves will be difficult,
but I believe we can meet them.  This will continue to require
tough decisions."

    Many of the changes Edison is proposing will require
approval by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
before they can be implemented. Within 90 days, Edison will
complete the necessary regulatory filings to make these
changes possible, and will ask the CPUC to approve the plans
"on the fastest regulatory track possible to allow our
customers to realize these benefits," Bryson said. Edison's
goal is to have all these changes completed before year-end.
Edison will notify affected customers as each new program is
implemented.

     In announcing these initiatives, Edison recognizes that
the CPUC will soon be announcing its proposals for reshaping
industry regulation, Bryson noted. "Some profound changes
could result. Nevertheless, we can't stand still while those
changes are being debated and implemented. We have to respond
to our customers' immediate needs.  The steps we are taking
will help prepare Edison to compete effectively in whatever
new marketplace emerges."

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