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Santee Cooper fails to plan for future. Pays investment banking firm $150 thousand a month
This week Santee Cooper executives testified at the SC Senate Select Committee on Santee Cooper, which is exploring the options for addressing the state-owned utility’s $4 billion debt resulting from its 45 percent ownership of the failed nuclear project in Fairfield County. The utility also owes over $4 billion more…
Newsletter: Santee Cooper, Joe Cunningham, Hill Meetings
Newsletter Donate Membership Follow us on Facebook and Twitter March 11, 2019 Santee Cooper: It’s Time to Sell The SC Small Business Chamber is supporting the sale of Santee Cooper to a private utility to eliminate debt…
Sell Santee Cooper to help ratepayers
Lexington County Chronicle March 7, 2019 By Frank Knapp Jr. Ratepayers who get power from our state’s 20 co-ops including Mid-Carolina and Tri-County Electric and directly from Santee Cooper are in debt more than $8 billion. Half of that comes from Santee Cooper’s 45% ownership of the abandoned nuclear project.…
Sell Santee Cooper for Ratepayer Relief. Private sector will deliver lower rates and clean electricity generation.
February 26, 2019 The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) is supporting the sale of Santee Cooper and all its assets. “It is important that the cost of the failed nuclear project in Fairfield County not be passed onto the small business ratepayers of Santee Cooper and local…
ACTION ALERT!! Support low-interest bonds for utilities to save ratepayers money
February 17, 2019 Senate subcommittee votes Wednesday Feb.20th at 12:30PM This Wednesday a Senate subcommittee will hold a public hearing on Senate Bill 110, a bill that would allow utilities to issue low-interest bonds in a process called “securitization”, a process not currently legal in the state. This financing tool…
Seismic Testing off our pristine coast: Who’s picking up the tab for legal fees?
(From Beaufort, SC, Mayor Billy Keyserling’s Newsletter) 16 SC Cities and Towns, of which Beaufort was the first to sign up, are in Federal District Court in Charleston opposing permits issued to allow seismic testing. The Cities and Towns are joined in the suit by hundreds of small businesses, led…
Tax returns are coming in…..
Federal tax reform hurriedly pushed through Congress in late 2017 and signed into law in December of that year was to give every American family a $4000 pay raise by cutting their taxes. Remember that? To anyone who was really paying attention to what was in the new law, that…
Subcommittee Proposes Extending Net Metering for Now. Wants to pass off all other solar/efficiency decisions to PSC.
Yesterday the House Public Utilities Subcommittee received a new draft of H.3659, the “South Carolina Energy Freedom Act”. The Subcommittee decided to finish the new language in the draft and hopes to vote it out next week and have it immediately taken up by the full LCI Committee also next…
Green New Deal
Today Senator Ed Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a resolution in the US Senate and House in support of a Green New Deal. You can read the resolution here.