Pedro J. Pizarro

CEOs only, those at the top of their game and at the top of their companies, and looking at this sector at a really, really important time, a time when we are growing again, a time when we have all kinds of needs to accommodate, be they policy-driven, technology-driven, capital-driven, or driven, as ever, by growth and the need to build for a growing economy.

I'm delighted to have as my first guest Pedro Pizarro, the CEO of Edison International.

I can't think of anybody better to begin with.

I'm hoping that we have a very wide-ranging but also pretty tight conversation, where we're going to be looking at the things that make California, and southern California in particular, a bit of a postcard from the future.

And so there's this sense of mission and responsibility, uh, and alignment with state's policy.

Yet at the same time, we view part of our role as being candid, outspoken, analytical, and kind of down the middle of the fairway in terms of points of view.

And, you know, we might get into this later, but, you know, over the course of my, uh, decade as CEO, we've published something like seven or eight white papers that have all been center, centered around the topic of how does California meet its net zero ambitions but in a real way, right? What's the most economic way to get there? Uh, it, the, this is not about dogma.

So for example, the role of natural gas.

He joins us this morning with his outlook.

Let's bring in Edison International CEO Pedro Pizarro, parent company of Southern California Edison, which does serve some 15 million people across the state.

Pedro, welcome and good to have you.

I know you're in town for Climate Week, although we normally turn to you for discussions about the grid and data centers.

Important trends to watch, Pedro.

Of course, we're praying for some good snowpack out west this winter, that's for sure.

Pedro Pizarro of Edison, thanks so much.

Thank you, Carl and Kelly.