South Carolina Sen. Michael Johnson, R-Fort Mill, left, talks to Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, as the Senate debates whether to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors was this in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, May 2, 2024. South Carolina House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, presides over the House on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina Sen. Michael Johnson, R-Fort Mill, left, talks to Sen.
Those rules were put in place after state-owned Santee Cooper and private South Carolina Electric & Gas cost ratepayers and shareholders billions of dollars when they collected the money to build a pair of nuclear reactors that were abandoned before construction was finished.
The proposal now heads back to the House, which has until the regular session ends Thursday to decide if it will accept the Senate’s version, insist on its own or just let the matter die.The bill was introduced in February and passed the House in about a month. Power companies said they need to revamp South Carolina’s rules on utilities to make it easier to build new plants and generate more energy after rolling blackouts were nearly needed on Christmas Eve 2022.
The long term goals include items such as reducing the Public Service Commission which oversees utilities from seven members, having watchdogs consider the health of utilities as well as the needs for ratepayers as they make decisions and allowing utilities to release less information about some projects publicly before they are approved.
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