South Carolina Electric & Gas Company intends to appeal a federal judge’s denial of their motion for preliminary injunction to prevent a rate cut from going into effect, according to a news release. The rate cut stems from a law ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A federal judge refused Aug. 2 to end a lawsuit by a private South Carolina utility that also is seeking to stop a temporary rate cut for customers who continue to pay for an abandoned nuclear reactor project. The ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Executives offered South Carolina legislators a bigger consumer rebate for a failed multibillion-dollar nuclear project if lawmakers scrapped a law requiring reduced power bills. WIS reports that Virginia-based Dominion Energy wanted to stop the new law cutting South Carolina Electric ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Customers of South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. moved another step closer July 3 to seeing a rate reduction after a failed multibillion-dollar nuclear project. During a brief meeting, the Public Service Commission ordered South Carolina Electric & Gas ...

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COLUMBIA (AP)  South Carolina lawmakers temporarily cut electric rates of a private utility by 15 percent June 28 to remove most of the charges they are paying for two nuclear plants that were never finished. Both the House and Senate overrode ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Customers of South Carolina Electric & Gas could see their rates temporarily cut by nearly 15 percent, under a compromise plan passed June 27 by lawmakers after the company spent billions on two failed nuclear plants that never produced ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina lawmakers met again almost two weeks after the General Assembly adjourned its regular session, but still could not reach a compromise on bills about the failed nuclear reactor project in the state and cutting power rates. ...

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