Another SCE&G Rate Hike - SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce

SCE&G rates increase 35% since January 2008

If you are an SCE&G business or residential customer, you know that your rates have gone up and up and up—just under 35% since January of 2008.

Half of this increase is due to the State Legislature allowing the power company to increase rates annually to pay for the construction financing costs of building two nuclear plants in Fairfield County.

Amazingly the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce has successfully opposed and reduced regular operational rate increases for the past 13 years or otherwise we would be well over a 35% increase today.

Now it is time to take the fight from the regulatory arena into the legislative arena. We need to target the 2007 law that allows for SCE&G to raise rates every year for the nuclear plants even when the company is 3 years behind schedule and over $1 billion from original projections. We need the law to be amended to better protect the consumer and to get SCE&G customers financial relief.

Please join our special “SCE&G Enough Is Enough” advocacy team. We’ll get you the information you need to make a difference and keep you informed.

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Another SGE&G Rate Hike Coming, Department Reviewing

WLTX.com
September 21, 2015

The Office of Regulatory Staff is taking a hard look at whether a law that allows rate hikes is fair for customers. (video)

You might have noticed your SCE&G bill has gone up every year for almost a decade now.

But now that the project is behind schedule and over budget, the Office of Regulatory Staff is taking a hard look at whether or not it’s fair for customers. The reason: because customers are helping pay for the company’s nuclear reactor project.

“We still don’t know what the cost is gonna be,” said environmental activist Tom Clements. “We’re being forced under duress to pay for a project we’re getting nothing from.”