Santee Cooper Board may ignore its own consultant’s concerns of rate design
Groups call on Board to heed warnings and not to approve at December 9th meeting
Columbia, SC—In a letter citing strong concerns about Santee Cooper management’s proposed new rate design, two organizations have urged the Santee Cooper Board not to adopt the proposal at its December 9th meeting.
The letter from the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy reviews concerns raised by the Board’s own consultant hired to review the management proposal.
The Board’s consultant advised that many residential and small business direct customers of Santee Cooper will be hit with large rate increase because the proposed rate design is confusing and almost never used for these classes of utility customers.
The Board’s consultant provided examples of newer and better designs that are fairer to these customers and allows the state utility to achieve the revenue increase it needs.
The letter can be found here.
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Contact:
Frank Knapp Jr.
President & CEO
South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce
803-600-6874
fknapp@scsbc.org
Eddy Moore
Director of Decarbonization
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
501-772-5426
eddy@cleanenergy.org