PSC public hearing on SCE&G rates Monday Lexington County Chronicle September 20, 2018 By Jerry Bellune State regulators plan to hear from those most affected by SCE&G’s high rates. The Public Service Commission will give the public an opportunity to speak on if or what ratepayers should pay for SCE&G’s…
Public Hearing Set on SCANA
Free Times September 19, 2018 The Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in connection with SCANA’s nuclear debacle at V.C. Summer. The hearing will give citizens an opportunity to weigh in as to whether ratepayers should continue to bear the burden of…
Public Hearing on SCE&G Nuclear Debacle Sept. 24th
Let the Public Service Commission Hear Your Voice September 18, 2018 If you are a customer of SCE&G, it is finally your turn to tell the SC Public Service Commission (PSC) how you feel about the utility raising your electric rates by 18% and collecting over $2 BILLION since 2009…
SCE&G wants $132 more a year from you. Charge will be on top of what you already pay
Lexington County Chronicle September 13, 2018 By Jerry Bellune SC Electric & Gas aims to raise ratepayers’ bills another $132.72 a year. That’s the average SCE&G is asking the Public Service Commission to let them charge 700,000 ratepayers for the next 50 years. That’s an…
Editorial: Gulf Stream could turn oil spills into colossal disasters
Post and Courier September 9, 2018 Add another bullet point to the long and growing list of reasons why South Carolina’s coast shouldn’t be open to offshore drilling. An oil spill anywhere near the Gulf Stream would be a monumental mess, potentially affecting hundreds of miles along the Atlantic Coast…
Why The Discovery Of The Deep Sea Coral Reef Near South Carolina Matters
Forbes September 10, 2018 By Priya Shukla Scientists recently discovered an 86-mile-wide deep-sea coral reef off the coast of South Carolina as part of the “Deep Search 2018″ expedition. These expansive mounds have likely existed for hundreds of thousands of years (since the arrival of modern humans), with new corals growing atop the…
SCE&G wants $4.7 billion more. PSC asked to approve abandonment costs
Lexington County Chronicle September 6, 2018 By Jerry Bellune Did you think closing SC Electric & Gas’s nuclear project would end ratepayer costs? Think again. SCE&G has asked the Public Service Commission to approve charging ratepayers another $4.7 billion in “abandonment” costs, Director Nanette Edwards of the Office of Regulatory…
Regulators defend SCE&G ratepayers. Change in mission aids public in rate increases
Lexington County Chronicle September 6, 2018 By Jerry Bellune One of the state’s regulated monopoly policy failings has been corrected. The regulators in the Office of Regulatory Staff no longer have a conflicting mission – to protect SC Electric & Gas and other utilities as well as public interest. “We’re…
If oil spilled off SC’s coast, a huge current would make it ‘impossible to control’
Post and Courier September 6, 2018 (Watch computer simulations) By Tony Bartelme and J. Emory Parker Computer-generated simulations show oil spills off the southeast coast could travel fast in the Gulf Stream or hit beaches depending on spill sites. Oil spills in the Gulf Stream off South Carolina could form…
Update: SCE&G Nuclear Debacle and Dominion Energy Power Play. Public Hearings To Be Held
Newsletter September 4, 2018 Ever since July 31, 2017, when South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) announced that it was abandoning construction of its nuclear plant project in Fairfield County the BIG question has been: How much of the $4.7 billion of the incurred construction costs for the nuclear project…