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469 mentions for region: South Carolina
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Duke Energy announced settlement agreements with multiple stakeholders, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, regarding its proposed combination of Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress. The settlement is designed to deliver measurable customer savings…
Georgia has lacked a Consumer Utilities Counsel since 2008, leaving residential ratepayers without dedicated representation in complex utility rate cases. The article examines efforts to restore the office and notes that advocacy groups like the Southern…
The article discusses land speculation in Aiken, South Carolina, where a gas-fired power plant developer is acquiring property to support data center development. The expansion threatens the region's century-old horse farming culture, with concerns about how…
South Carolina's Public Service Commission approved Duke Energy's nonresidential demand response program on May 27, 2026, allowing businesses to reduce energy costs by adjusting usage during peak hours. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy criticized the…
“You're making a very large utility that has a tremendous amount of financial resources, a tremendous amount of political power, and that does not always bode well for ratepayers. The more political power that a utility has, the more probable it is that they will use that power to the disadvantage of ratepayers.”
Duke Energy announced a settlement agreement with multiple organizations, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, regarding its proposed merger of Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress. The merger, approved by FERC in January 2026,…
Multiple environmental groups including Southern Alliance for Clean Energy announced a settlement with Dominion Energy that reduces the proposed residential rate increase from $19.98 to $11.97 per month in South Carolina. The settlement includes $6 million…
“When you count the all-in cost to customers to build, finance, and operate this gas infrastructure, our predictions two years ago that this project would cost as much as the failed $9 billion VC Summer nuclear project are coming true. The difference is that the environmental damage from millions of tons per year of new air pollution for 50 years plus using the gas pipeline to industrialize the ACE Basin will be worse. Meanwhile, in the five or more years before this project delivers any power, the world economy will continue to shift towards the cleaner, more advanced energy solutions that South Carolina should embrace.”
Duke Energy's PowerPair pilot program in North Carolina has deployed 54 MW of rooftop solar and 72 MW of battery storage across 6,297 customers in just two years, leveraging $179 million in private capital investment with…
“Placing disproportionate financial burdens on EV adoption creates new problems rather than solving existing ones.”
“When you count the all-in cost to customers to build, finance, and operate this gas infrastructure, our predictions two years ago that this project would cost as much as the failed $9 billion VC Summer nuclear project are coming true”
“residential electricity prices have already surged by 33% between 2019 and 2025, even before the bulk of the new $1.4 trillion spend has been reflected in monthly bills”
“Those are legitimate concerns. Kinder Morgan says it only wants to survey the land, but that's the early stages of possibly condemning people's property for the pipeline”
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Concerned Citizens of Spartanburg County filed a motion with the S.C. Public Service Commission requesting the recusal of Commissioner H. David Britt from a case involving a proposed 450-megawatt…
“By lowering this one, the key number in future rate increases is lower.”
