SDG&E makes $9 million more in first nine months of 2011 than same time period last year

SAN DIEGO - San Diego-based Sempra Energy reported today, Nov. 3, third quarter earnings of $296 million, or $1.22 per diluted share, compared to $131 million, or 53 cents per diluted share, in the same period last year.

For the first three quarters of the year, the owner of San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas Co. had earnings of $1.1 billion, or $4.40 per diluted share. In the first nine months of 2010, earnings were $459 million, or $1.84 per diluted share.

Among its major subsidiaries:

-- SDG&E made $273 million in the first nine months of this year, compared to $264 millio...