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Dominion Energy proposes new solar energy fees in South Carolina

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WLTX-TV February 23, 2021 Watch Video Local business owners are concerned that the new fees could harm solar industry. Author: Danielle Miller (WLTX) COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dominion Energy South Carolina held a hearing with the Public Service Commission on Tuesday regarding the establishment of new solar choice metering tariffs in the state. The new tariffs come at the […]

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Santee Cooper customers say bills are abnormally high, company offers to come out and look

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WPDE February 5, 2021 by SIMON WILLIAMS | WPDE Staff MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — A lot of us could expect electric bills to go up in the colder months, but several Santee Cooper customers said theirs are much higher than normal. A Facebook post has over 200 comments from customers along the Grand Strand

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KNAPP: GOP move on offshore drilling is money “shakedown”

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Statehouse Report June 29, 2018 By Frank Knapp Jr., special to Statehouse Report President Trump has defended his desire to open all the country’s federal offshore waters to drilling for oil by saying that the United State must have energy dominance over all other nations. But a recent Republican proposal in the U.S. House Committee

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Hicks column: A telling sign that South Carolina attitudes on offshore drilling have shifted

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Charleston Posts and Courier June 24, 2018 By Brian Hicks In at least one way, South Carolina’s climate has changed noticeably. It’s nothing you can detect with thermometers or barometers, wind gauges or rain gauges. But it’s real. The best way to measure it is through politics. During a GOP gubernatorial debate last week, Gov.

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Important recent development on rolling back SCE&G rates

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SCE&G electric rates that have risen 18% since 2009 to pay for the construction financing costs of the now abandoned nuclear plants in Fairfield County. Ratepayers have been forced to pay about $2 billion in extra charges on their electric bills because of this failed project. From the very beginning the position of the South

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You aren’t getting that $4000 raise but instead a cut to Medicare and Social Security

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Six months ago Congress passed a major tax bill that President Trump eagerly signed with a promise that the average American family would get a $4000 raise due to their taxes being cut and raises or bonuses from their employers. Employers were supposed to pass on much of their tax cuts to workers and thus

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Labor Department rules expand AHPs, in further blow to Obamacare

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MultiBriefs: Exclusive June 21, 2018 The Trump administration’s Department of Labor on June 19 issued a final rule that lets groups of small businesses offer Association Health Plans (AHPs), which are health insurance plans that sidestep some provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a national trade association,

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ACTION ALERT and Newsletter

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Newsletter June 21, 2018 ACTION ALERT!!! Legislature Meets Next Week on SCE&G Rates and Regulatory Reform The SCE&G/Santee Cooper nuclear plants debacle that has dominated the news and legislature this year has resulted in this….NOTHING! We have one last chance to tell our legislators to quit talking and making excuses while allowing SCE&G to continue

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