Day 11 of the PSC hearing delivered some important testimony from Dominion Energy witnesses. The day started with a panel of Dominion witnesses: James Chapman (Dominion’s CFO), Prabir Purohit (Dominion’s Director of Mergers and Acquisitions) and James Warren (Dominion’s out-of-house attorney). Mr. Chapman told that Dominion is a $79 billion…
Day 10 of the PSC Hearing
Day 10 of the PSC hearing was devoted entirely to the testimony of George Wenick, SCE&G’s outside attorney who advised SCE&G and Santee Cooper on the nuclear project. It was Mr. Wenick’s law firm that hired the Bechtel Corporation in 2015 for an independent analysis of the nuclear project. In…
Opinion: How to save 600 jobs at SCANA and SCE&G
Lexington County Chronicle November 15, 2018 By Frank Knapp Jr. When SC Electric & Gas decided to abandon its nuclear construction project a year ago, we lost about 5,000 workers. Now up to 600 SCE&G employees, most at its Cayce headquarters, are in danger. Utility rate and planning consultant Lane…
Day 9 of the PSC Hearing
(For coverage of Day 8, click here) Day 9 of the PSC hearing started with Ronald Binz, a public utility and energy policy witness for the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC). Much of his testimony addressed the use of securitization as a tool to cut costs for ratepayers when it…
Day 7 of the PSC Hearing
SCANA CEO Jimmy Addison continued as the first witness. In response to a question he said that he has not and doesn’t intend to read the Bechtel Report, the independent assessment of the nuclear project started in 2015 and ending in 2016 at a cost of $1 million to SCE&G.…
SCSBCC President Questions SCE&G CEO at PSC Hearing
Watch video from WIS-TV of SCE&G CEO Jimmy Addison being questioned by Frank Knapp, president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce at the November 8th PSC hearing. Mr. Knapp was challenging the Dominion Energy public campaign to convince customers that they would receive a $1000 check if…
Democrat Joe Cunningham won the congressional race for South Carolina’s 1st District
E&E News November 7, 2018 By Rob Hotakainen, E&E News reporter Democrat Joe Cunningham, a political novice and former ocean engineer, scored a big upset in South Carolina early today after making opposition to offshore drilling and seismic testing a top issue in his campaign. Cunningham won in the state’s…
Sale could cost 600 SCANA jobs
Lexington County Chronicle November 9, 2018 By Jerry Bellune SCANA’s sale could be costly to local people. Up to 600 SCANA employees could lose their jobs if Dominion Energy buys Lexington County-based SCANA. This is in addition to the 5,000 workers who lost their jobs when SCANA abandoned its $9…
Day 6 of the PSC Hearing
SCE&G presented its first witness today. Jimmy Addison, who was the CFO of SCE&G over the past several years before becoming CEO in 2018, took his seat at the witness table and spent the day answering questions. Bob Guild, attorney for the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, started…
Day 5 of the PSC Hearing
Mr. Kollen continued as ORS witness today. Mr. Knapp started the morning questioning Mr. Kollen about the Toshiba guarantee funds (about $1.1 billion penalty for Westinghouse walking away from the nuclear project). Dominion, if it acquires SCE&G, has proposed giving an immediate cash refund to customers by using the Toshiba…