SC Power companies want to build new gas mega-projects in South Carolina. These massive power plants and pipelines would cost billions of dollars, pollute the surrounding environment, and put customers on the hook for buying gas for decades. Power companies are pushing lawmakers towards this option before considering cheaper, less risky alternatives.
We should learn from the $9 billion VC Summer nuclear plant fiasco—a failed mega-project plagued by construction delays, cost overruns, and fraud that never generated a single electron. Customers paid billions for utilities to dig a hole…and fill it back in. It was a big risk, and customers paid. Now, power companies are pushing more risky mega-projects with South Carolina decision-makers.
Tell your legislators to say no to risky projects that will cost us billions on our energy bills.
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Possible gas pipeline route in SC is a ‘trade secret’ that a utility refuses to reveal
Santee Cooper, a partner with Dominion Energy in a plan to build a new Lowcountry gas plant, declined to provide any information about a future pipeline in response to a Post and Courier open records request.
SC power companies set billions on fire to build a nuke plant. They want your money again.
Power companies and lawmakers are pushing hard for a new gas-fired power plant, likely at a site along the Edisto River. But the push carries echoes of what happened before the failed plan to build the V.C. Summer nuclear station north of Columbia, a project that set $9 billion on fire.
SC conservation groups rip revised Statehouse plan to fast-track Lowcountry gas plant
South Carolina lawmakers advanced controversial legislation to fast-track a new natural gas plant in South Carolina’s Lowcountry with language some believe would hamstring the state’s solar energy sector.