Almost a year to the day after first making details of its proposal to acquire SCANA Corp. public, Richmond, Virginia-based Dominion Energy completed the merger, capping a tumultuous 12 months of legal maneuvering and absorbing South Carolina’s independent utility ...

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The private utility that spent billions of dollars on the construction of two nuclear reactors in South Carolina which were abandoned without generating any power said government watchdogs should bear much of the responsibility for the debacle. A lawyer for ...

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The price of shares in the stock of a private South Carolina utility have fallen sharply after suggestions a judge may overturn a law the firm said has been key to its profitability. SCANA Corp.’s stock opened this week at ...

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BY MELINDA WALDROP [email protected] As legal wrangling between S.C. Electric & Gas Co. and state lawmakers continues to unfold, the company bidding to acquire the utility’s parent company is, like other interested players, waiting to see how everything shakes out. ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A 15 percent rate cut ordered by lawmakers can start showing up on a private South Carolina utility’s bills after the company lost billions of dollars on two nuclear plants that were never finished, a federal judge ruled ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A South Carolina utility told a federal judge on July 30 that it played by the rules, so lawmakers should too, even if it means saddling customers with billions of dollars of debt from a failed nuclear project. South ...

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MONCKS CORNER (AP) State-owned utility Santee Cooper is asking the South Carolina Supreme Court to resolve a dispute with electric cooperatives. Santee Cooper asked the Supreme Court on June 25 to determine whether the electric cooperatives must pay their share for ...

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  York County Circuit Court Judge John Hayes III recently decided to allow five lawsuits filed against South Carolina Electric and Gas Company to continue. The lawsuits claim that the actions of SCE&G cost customers just shy of $2 billion, ...

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