Shinjini Menon is senior vice president, System Planning and Engineering, at Southern California Edison. She oversees the technical assessment of SCE’s electric grid’s performance and development of asset management strategies and engineering solutions for how the system is designed, built and operated to meet load and generation interconnection needs along with providing safe, reliable and resilient service to our customers.
She also leads the development and execution of a comprehensive roadmap to modernize and expand the grid to meet California’s and SCE’s decarbonization, electrification and climate change mitigation goals.
Most recently, Menon served as vice president of Asset Management and Wildfire Safety. She was previously managing director of State Regulatory Operations in Regulatory Affairs where she was responsible for all cost recovery-related regulatory matters and the utility’s regulatory policies concerning grid resilience and modernization. In previous roles, she also led Transmission & Distribution operational planning.
Before joining SCE in 2004, Menon worked for Corning Incorporated, leading aspects of product development for photonics and environmental technologies.
Menon serves on the Dean’s Leadership Board at Cal Poly Pomona.
Menon holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and statistics from Purdue University.
