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 from Santee Cooper and electric […]
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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. The debate in the state
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Hilton Head Island Packet March 5, 2019 By Frank Knapp Jr. Special to The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette When SCE&G abandoned its nuclear project in July 2017, leaving its ratepayers with a $5 billion debt and no new electricity generation, the public was rightly incensed, and the legislature took action. That crisis has
Florence Morning News March 8, 2019 Frank Knapp Jr. Guest Columnist Small-business owners are accustomed to making decisions big and small. When a crisis arises that threatens their very existence, small-business owners also know that time is of the essence in the decision-making process. Of course, a good understanding of the problem and the possible
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Hilton Head Island Packet March 5, 2019 BY FRANK KNAPP JR. SPECIAL TO THE ISLAND PACKET AND THE BEAUFORT GAZETTE When SCE&G abandoned its nuclear project in July 2017, leaving its ratepayers with a $5 billion debt and no new electricity generation, the public was rightly incensed, and the legislature took action. That crisis has
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The Times and Democrat March 3, 2019 By FRANK KNAPP JR. When SCE&G abandoned its nuclear project in July 2017, leaving its ratepayers with a $5 billion debt and no new electricity generation, the public was rightly incensed, and the legislature took action. That crisis has now largely been resolved with over half of the
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Post & Courier March 2, 2019 BY FRANK KNAPP JR. The South Carolina General Assembly took decisive action last year to help SCE&G ratepayers who were facing $5 billion in debt for the construction of the failed nuclear project in Fairfield County. The Legislature instructed the Public Service Commission to reduce customer rates by 15
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Lexington County Chronicle February 28, 2019 By Jerry Bellune Private owners of debt-ridden Santee Cooper can bring lower rates and clean electricity. That’s the belief of the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce in backing the sale of taxpayer-owned Santee Cooper and its assets. $8 billion in costs of the utility’s failed nuclear project must
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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 electric co-operatives,” said Frank Knapp
