Free TimesOctober 31, 2012 BY EVA MOORE South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. is asking state regulators for permission to raise rates. But auditors with the state Office of Regulatory Staff found some eye-raising expenses in documents provided by SCE&G to show that the rate increase is needed. Among the expenses the auditors called into …
Expenses called “Appalling and Offensive” Columbia, SC—With many South Carolinians still struggling to simply put food on the table and small businesses trying to keep their doors open, South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) wants its 668,000 customers to pay an average 6.6% increase in electricity rates. SCE&G justifies its need for an increase in …
In the next several weeks you will be reading and hearing more about the South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) proposed overall electric rate hike of 6.61%. Many of you will complain that if we just deregulated the energy market and stop forcing residential and commercial customers to get their energy from SCE&G, Duke, Progress …
For those of you in the South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) territory, get ready to mark your calendars. The power company is asking for an overall rate increase of 6.6% on electricity for its 660,000 customers. For small businesses the rate hike would be 4.19% and residential customers would pay a whopping 7.35% more for …
The workers’ compensation insurance industry and SCE&G both have hearings in the coming months regarding their requests for more revenue. The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) and its president and CEO, Frank Knapp Jr., will intervene to oppose both rate hikes. The SCSBCC is joining the S.C. Consumer Advocate’s Office in pushing …
