South Carolina
With miles of precious coastline, Blue Ridge mountains, and historic cities and cultures, South Carolina has much to protect. Yet the state’s major utilities are not keeping promises to retire coal plants while nearly half of the largest power plants are producing power with polluting methane gas.
Still, the Palmetto State is untapped ground for clean energy, especially solar power. Significant solar projects are set to come online in 2025 to help power the state’s anticipated spike in energy demand over the next decade, and more electric vehicles are hitting South Carolina’s roads than ever before. Despite legislation that puts its clean energy future at risk, South Carolina is rising to the challenge.
South Carolinians support moving to 100% clean energy by 2050 by a 2-to-1 margin (50% support).
Private businesses invested $15 billion in clean energy between August 2022 to December 2024, creating 22,000 new jobs in South Carolina.
In 2024, light-duty EV sales in South Carolina grew by 35%, far outpacing the 7% growth EVs averaged nationally.