For several days around Christmas 2022 last year, South Carolinians felt record cold temperatures.
The three major utilities that serve the state — Dominion, Duke and Santee Cooper — struggled to provide enough electricity to meet customer demand.
From Dec. 24-25, the utilities had to impose rolling blackouts on their systems.
“We (utilities) failed,” Keller Kissam, president of Dominion Energy South Carolina told a special legislative committee Oct. 18.
At that same hearing, Duke Energy Carolinas President Michael Callahan bluntly told lawmakers, “We need power, and we need a lot of it, and we need to take action today.”
Utility officials say that the anticipated growth in the state over the next 10 to 15 years could happen at a faster pace than their ability to generate the needed power. They would like to see increased pipeline capacity for natural gas, and to be on the same page with the S.C. Public Service Commission, the body which regulates them when it comes to meeting future needs.
Source : SCPR
