3. Issues for Resolution

The complaint raises two legal issues, set forth in the assigned Commissioner's scoping memo as follows:⁸

1. Should the Commission order SCE to perform the MOS study, for which Tesoro agrees to pay?

2. May a straddle customer like Tesoro, which is served by both an investor-owned electric utility subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission and a municipal electric utility, choose to integrate its electrical service under the investor-owned utility?

We discuss these issues, in reverse order, below.

⁸ Scoping Memo and Ruling of Assigned Commissioner, Feb. 27, 2008, at 3.