Sector: Utilities|Industry: Utilities - Diversified|Market Cap: $53.90B|Employees: 16.8K
Sempra is a California-based energy infrastructure company that invests in, develops, and operates energy infrastructure and provides electric and gas services to customers. The company's core business model involves transmission and distribution investments, with a focus on LNG, energy networks, and low-carbon solutions. Sempra holds a strong market position in North America with a significant geographic presence in the U.S. and Mexico.
Sempra's natural gas revenues decreased by $2.4 billion (25%) to $7.1 billion, driven by Sempra California. The decrease was primarily due to a $2.6 billion decrease in the cost of natural gas sold.
Sempra's electric revenues decreased by $38 million (1%) to $4.3 billion driven by Sempra California. This was primarily due to a $176 million lower revenues associated with refundable programs, which are fully offset in O&M.
Sempra's equity earnings increased by $128 million (9%) to $1.6 billion primarily due to $86 million at Oncor Holdings driven by a rate update to reflect an increase in invested capital, updates to transmission billing units, customer growth, and base rates implemented in May 2023.
Sempra Infrastructure continues to develop, build, operates and invests in energy infrastructure to help provide safe, sustainable and reliable access to cleaner energy in markets in the U.S., Mexico and globally. Sempra Infrastructure's assets include LNG and natural gas infrastructure in the U.S. and Mexico and renewable energy, LPG and refined products infrastructure in Mexico.
Cameron LNG Phase 2 project, an expansion of the Cameron LNG Phase 1 facility that would add one liquefaction train and debottlenecking capacity from the existing three trains, ECA LNG Phase 2 project, a large-scale natural gas liquefaction project to be located at the site of Sempra Infrastructure's existing ECA Regas Facility in Baja California, Mexico, PA LNG Phase 2 project, a large-scale natural gas liquefaction project and associated infrastructure to be located adjacent to the PA LNG Phase 1 project in the vicinity of Port Arthur, Texas, Vista Pacifico LNG project, a mid-scale natural gas liquefaction project and associated infrastructure in the vicinity of Topolobampo in Sinaloa, Mexico.
Sempra Infrastructure has a 20-year PPA with Silicon Valley Power for the long-term supply of renewable energy to the City of Santa Clara, California. Cimarrón Wind will utilize Sempra Infrastructure's existing cross-border high voltage transmission line to interconnect and deliver clean energy to the East County substation in San Diego County.
The SST Committee assists the Sempra board of directors in overseeing the company's oversight programs and performance related to safety, and our executives' annual incentive compensation is based in part on safety metrics established by the Compensation and Talent Development Committee of the board.
Our mission is to be North America's premier energy infrastructure company. We are primarily focused on transmission and distribution investments, among other areas, that we believe are capable of producing stable cash flows and earnings visibility, with the goals of delivering safe, reliable and increasingly clean forms of energy affordably to customers and increasing shareholder value.
Sempra continues to decarbonize its operations with an aim to have net-zero scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 2050 and an interim target of 50% scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reductions by 2035 (this interim target applies to Sempra California and Sempra Infrastructure's Mexico (non-LNG) operations and is relative to a 2019 baseline).
There are a number of risks you should understand before making an investment decision in our securities or the securities of our subsidiaries. Wildfires in California pose risks to Sempra, SDG&E and SoCalGas.
Natural gas continues to be the subject of political and public debate, including a desire by some to reduce or eliminate reliance on natural gas as an energy source. The electricity industry is undergoing significant change, including increased deployment of renewable energy sources and energy storage, technological advancements, evolving procurement service standards, and political and regulatory developments.
We face evolving cybersecurity and technology resiliency risks associated with the energy grid, pipelines, storage and other infrastructure as well as the collection of personal, sensitive and confidential information. The availability and cost of debt or equity financing could be negatively affected by market and economic conditions and other factors.
SDG&E faces competition to serve its customer load from distributed and local power generation growth, including DER. In addition, the electric industry is undergoing rapid technological change, and third-party energy storage alternatives and other technologies may increasingly compete with SDG&E's traditional transmission and distribution infrastructure in delivering electricity to consumers.
Sempra Infrastructure's pipeline and storage facilities businesses compete with other regulated and unregulated pipeline and storage facilities. They compete primarily on the basis of price (in terms of storage and transportation fees), available capacity and interconnections to downstream markets.
Our LNG projects in development, under construction and in operation all compete globally to market and sell LNG to remarketers and end-users, including gas and electric utilities located in LNG-importing countries around the world. We compete with liquefaction projects currently operating and those under development in the global LNG market. In addition to the U.S., these competitors are located in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, Australia and Europe.
Our mission is to be North America's premier energy infrastructure company. We are primarily focused on transmission and distribution investments, among other areas, that we believe are capable of producing stable cash flows and earnings visibility, with the goals of delivering safe, reliable and increasingly clean forms of energy affordably to customers and increasing shareholder value.
SDG&E and SoCalGas have regulatory mechanisms to recover credit losses and thus record changes in the allowances for credit losses related to Accounts Receivable – Trade that are probable of recovery in regulatory accounts. We discuss regulatory accounts in Note 4.
SoCalGas is subject to the GCIM and is eligible for financial awards or subject to financial penalties depending on its performance in relation to specific benchmarks. We discuss the GCIM in "Part II – Item 7. MD&A" and Note 3 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
The electricity industry is undergoing significant change, including increased deployment of renewable energy sources and energy storage, technological advancements, evolving procurement service standards, and political and regulatory developments. Electric utilities in California are experiencing increasing deployment of solar and wind generation, including DER, energy storage and energy efficiency and demand management technologies, and California's environmental policy objectives are accelerating the pace and scope of these changes.
Sempra Infrastructure is also evaluating the Hackberry Carbon Sequestration development opportunity, which is a carbon capture and sequestration project that is intended to reduce emissions at the Cameron LNG Phase 1 facility and proposed Cameron LNG Phase 2 project.
California's energy policy supports increased electrification, particularly electrification of vehicles, which could significantly increase sales volumes in the coming years. Other external factors, such as the price of purchased power, the use and further development of renewable energy sources and energy storage, the development of or requirements for new natural gas supply sources, demand for and supply of natural gas and general economic conditions, can also result in significant shifts in the market price of electricity, which may in turn impact demand.
We aim to finance our five-year capital expenditures plan in a manner that will maintain our investment-grade credit ratings and capital structure, but there can be no guarantee that we will be able to do so.
In November 2024, Sempra established an ATM program, which we discuss in Note 12 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. We are permitted to sell shares of our common stock in the ATM program pursuant to forward sale agreements, which grant each counterparty (each a forward purchaser) the right to accelerate its forward sale agreement (or, in certain cases, the portion thereof that the forward purchaser determines is affected by the relevant event) and require us to physically settle the forward sale agreement on a date specified by the forward purchaser if, subject to a prior notice requirement.
Certain ring-fencing measures, governance mechanisms and commitments limit our ability to influence the management, operations and policies of Oncor. Sempra does not control Oncor Holdings or Oncor, and the ring-fencing measures, governance mechanisms and commitments limit our ability to direct the management, policies and operations of Oncor Holdings and Oncor, including the deployment or disposition of their assets, declarations of dividends or other distributions, strategic planning and other important corporate issues and actions, including limited representation on the Oncor Holdings and Oncor boards of directors.
Sempra continues to decarbonize its operations with an aim to have net-zero scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 2050 and an interim target of 50% scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reductions by 2035 (this interim target applies to Sempra California and Sempra Infrastructure's Mexico (non-LNG) operations and is relative to a 2019 baseline).
Sempra Infrastructure is also evaluating the Hackberry Carbon Sequestration development opportunity, which is a carbon capture and sequestration project that is intended to reduce emissions at the Cameron LNG Phase 1 facility and proposed Cameron LNG Phase 2 project.
California requires certain electric retail sellers, including SDG&E, to deliver a significant percentage of their retail energy sales from renewable energy sources. The rules governing this requirement, administered by the CPUC and the CEC, are generally known as the RPS Program. SB 100 (enacted in 2018) and SB 1020 (enacted in 2022) require each California electric utility, including SDG&E, to procure at least 50% of its annual retail electricity delivered from renewable energy or zero-carbon sources by 2026, 60% by 2030, 90% by 2035, and 95% by 2040.
Electric utilities in California are experiencing increasing deployment of solar and wind generation, including DER, energy storage and energy efficiency and demand management technologies, and California's environmental policy objectives are accelerating the pace and scope of these changes.
Natural gas demand largely depends on the health and expansion of the Southern California economy, prices of alternative energy products, consumer preference, environmental regulations, legislation, California's energy policy supporting increased electrification and renewable power generation, and the effectiveness of energy efficiency programs.
Oncor operates in certificated areas designated by the PUCT. The majority of Oncor's service territory is single certificated, with Oncor as the only certificated electric transmission and distribution provider. However, in multi-certificated areas of Texas, Oncor competes with certain other utilities and rural electric cooperatives for the right to serve end-use customers.