Blog by Frank Knapp, President/CEO South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce April 19, 2021 Logic might yet prevail in the SC Senate regarding the future of Santee Cooper, the state-owned utility that provides electricity to about 2 million South Carolinians either directly or through electric cooperatives. Santee Cooper ran…
Opinion: Selling Santee Cooper is transformational change S.C. deserves
Sumter Daily Item April 13, 2021 By James Felder, Gullah Geechee Leadership Institute Fifty years ago, Isaac Samuel Leevy Johnson, Herbert Fielding and I stepped into the state capitol to take our places as South Carolina’s first Black members of the General Assembly. It was a milestone on a road…
Commentary: South Carolina’s best chance to fix Santee Cooper is by selling it
Post and Courier April 7, 2021 By Dana Beach If ever there were a question that reveals the wide array of ideological perspectives in South Carolina, it’s whether the state should sell its electric power company, the S.C. Public Service Authority. Santee Cooper is a veritable Rorschach test of economic…
Santee Cooper topic of WHRI’s Straight Talk–Listen
Frank Knapp of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce on Monday joined Manning Kimmel for his Straight Talk on Rock Hill’s WHRI to discuss Santee Cooper. Listen Here.
Will SC Senate do its fiduciary obligation?
Blog by Frank Knapp, President and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce April 6, 2021 The South Carolina legislature’s effort to resolve the future of Santee Cooper continues to move at a glacial pace, years after the V.C. Summer nuclear fiasco that will cost Santee Cooper…
Opinion: It’s time for SC to take a ‘business approach’ to Santee Cooper
The Greenville News March 21, 2021 By Jim DeMint, Special to the Greenville news To many of my fellow South Carolinians, I am known for my years as an elected official, first in the US House of Representatives, then the US Senate. But before my tenure in Washington—for more than 20 years—I was…
“Pixie dust” actually can eliminate Santee Cooper’s $4 billion nuclear debt
SC used it to make about half of SCE&G debt disappear with a sale Blog by Frank Knapp Jr., President & CEO March 9, 2021 Back in 2018, I intervened in the SC Public Service Commission (PSC) docket that was to decide what to do with the old SCE&G. SCANA,…
Carlberg: Special Delivery to the South Carolina General Assembly
Energy Consumers of the Carolinas February 9, 2021 by Scott Carlberg Santee Cooper CEO Mark Bonsall sent a letter to the General Assembly in late January announcing Santee Cooper will be in debt until 2055. Although likely not his intent the letter clearly highlights the choice confronting legislators: Pay off…
“Lowest rates” dispute continues
In the battle over the future of Santee Cooper, sell or reform, the state agency always fights back with the claim that they have the lowest electric rates in South Carolina. No investor-owned utility, like NextEra, could ever provide lower electricity rates, says Santee Cooper. But this claim of the…
Santee Cooper customers say bills are abnormally high, company offers to come out and look
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…