Westinghouse and SCANA used unlicensed workers to design abandoned S.C. nuclear reactors
How utilities wine and dine the public officials that set your rates
Two identical nuclear projects, one in Georgia and one in South Carolina. Only one survived.
Insights that would have alerted regulators to problems with the nuclear project were scrubbed from an audit two years ago
Early signs of 'incompetence at every level' went unheeded as South Carolina rushed toward 'sexy' nuclear future
Internal Westinghouse document warned South Carolina nuclear reactor construction was 'at risk' in 2011
Documents show failed South Carolina nuclear project was years and millions of hours away from completion
SCANA CEO Kevin Marsh is at the center of the nuclear project's spectacular failure. Who is he?
Members of SCANA board lack nuclear expertise yet oversaw failed V.C. Summer project while earning a combined $11 million
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers began their search for three utility regulators Monday, as the state struggles with some of the nation's highest energy costs and seeks to resolve the cance…
SWANSEA — Wannelle Witt Lefkowitz smiles as she looks out over the more than 80 acres of South Carolina farmland that's been in her family for three generations.
COLUMBIA — The 2007 law that accelerated South Carolina's failed nuclear project is being challenged in court, setting up a pivotal legal battle and further jeopardizing S.C. Electric & Ga…
COLUMBIA — South Carolina's House and Senate might have agreed to temporarily slash South Carolina Electric & Gas rates, but the utility's customers shouldn't expect to see those savings a…
COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers agree on this much: They want to slash SCANA Corp.'s electricity rates in the wake of the company’s failed nuclear project.
South Carolina senators are on the precipice of forcing South Carolina Electric & Gas to stop charging for its failed nuclear project — still.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina swapped engineering for litigation, construction designs for federal subpoenas and two nuclear reactors for a debt larger than the state government's annual budget.
South Carolina is officially on the hunt for a new utility watchdog, searching for an attorney with an eye for utility regulations and the chops to unwind one of the biggest financial crises i…
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's state-owned utility says it wants a say in whether its partner in building two failed nuclear plants can merge with a Virginia utility.
South Carolina Electric & Gas is "refusing and obstructing" requests for internal records tied to its failed nuclear project, according to a pair of environmental groups squaring off again…
The Legislature has spent months debating whether to cut South Carolina Electric & Gas ratepayers' power bills, so a group of manufacturers is trying a new tack: asking regulators to beat …
Dominion Energy is coming back to South Carolina’s airwaves this week as the debate over its plans to buy SCANA Corp. comes to a head in Columbia.
COLUMBIA — Santee Cooper executives secretly fretted for years that its partner SCANA was incapable of overseeing the construction of two nuclear reactors in South Carolina but continued to fo…
Two of South Carolina's utility regulators won't be returning to their posts when their terms run out this summer.
Westinghouse's nuclear reactor business had become a "de facto Ponzi scheme" by the time it foundered — a money pit that could only be filled by signing up more and more customers to build pow…
COLUMBIA — In early 2016, long before South Carolina’s nuclear boondoggle burst into public view, a high-ranking SCANA official left a blistering, five-minute voicemail with a key employee at …
COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Senate delayed a final vote Thursday on a plan that clips SCANA's electric rates by 13 percent — a night after they reached a compromise that could drop the avera…
COLUMBIA — South Carolina Electric & Gas customers could see their bills drop after the state Senate voted Wednesday to temporarily suspend much of the charges for abandoned reactors at th…
Santee Cooper hired consultant at $150,000 a month to 'seek settlement' from SCANA over nuke project
Public utility Santee Cooper has hired a $150,000-a-month investment bank as part of an effort to squeeze a settlement payment out of SCANA Corp. over their failed nuclear power project.
After promising Gov. Henry McMaster they would not oppose a sale of Santee Cooper, emails suggest the state-run utility's lobbyists attempted to derail purchase offers by some of the nation's largest energy companies.
A new financial analysis found South Carolina Electric & Gas can stop collecting much of the $37 million in monthly nuclear charges from customers without ruining the utility company.
SCANA Corp. has paid out more than half a billion dollars to investors with money collected from electric customers for its failed nuclear project, according to documents published by state re…
South Carolina Electric & Gas customers will pay $3.8 billion for the power company's failed nuclear project if its sale to Dominion Energy is approved, according to documents filed with s…
Santee Cooper's electric rates will rise sharply as the bills for its failed nuclear project come due, more than doubling the monthly payments its customers make into the unfinished reactors.
What should homeowners with solar panels pay for electricity? That's the question lawmakers hope to answer with a pair of dueling bills.
South Carolina Electric & Gas projects it will need to build a new power plant in the next five years to keep up with rising electricity demand after the company called off its nuclear pro…
COLUMBIA — SCANA Corp. knew its contractors were mismanaging millions of dollars in construction material soon after work at South Carolina's V.C. Summer Nuclear Station began in 2013, and the…
SCANA Corp. executives took free rounds of golf, entry to the Masters tournament and tickets to football games from the contractors responsible for building the company a pair of nuclear react…
Even if South Carolina's electric cooperatives get out of paying for Santee Cooper's failed nuclear project, they'll still be hurt if financial turmoil follows.
COLUMBIA — The political battle over SCANA's monthly charges for two useless nuclear reactors blew up Wednesday, as S.C. House lawmakers accused the Senate of allowing the utility company to c…
COLUMBIA — Gov. Henry McMaster wants to know if Santee Cooper's team of Statehouse lobbyists are trying to undermine his months-long attempt to sell the public utility.
COLUMBIA — Just six months after the first concrete was poured at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in 2013, project partners SCANA and Santee Cooper were taking their contractors to task for co…
DAVENPORT, Florida — The Ritchie Bros. auction yard stirs awake early, coming to life at sunrise with all the trappings of a music festival.
South Carolina electric customers can sue SCANA Corp. for refunds over a pair of abandoned nuclear reactors, a judge has ruled, rejecting the utility’s efforts to dismiss a collection of lawsu…
If you’ve ever wanted to be a utility regulator, now is your time.
COLUMBIA — Legislative wrangling over South Carolina's nuclear fiasco continued Tuesday as lawmakers again deliberated whether to cut off the $37 million per month SCANA collects for V.C. Summer.
Westinghouse is being called to testify before the South Carolina House about its role in the failed expansion of the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina's electric cooperatives plan to sue Santee Cooper to stop the public utility from charging customers for V.C. Summer, fracturing the two groups' long-held business re…
COLUMBIA — With public pressure mounting, some South Carolina lawmakers still are looking for ways to stop the $37 million a month that South Carolina Electric & Gas customers pay for aban…
The financial fallout from the failed expansion of the V.C. Summer nuclear plant pushed SCANA Corp. into red-ink territory last year.
Santee Cooper will preserve the site of South Carolina’s abandoned nuclear project at least temporarily, taking control of the unfinished power plant months after its partner decided to walk a…
Dominion Energy and SCANA Corp. say they're “encouraged” by a proposal that would extend until the end of the year the approval of their planned tie-up.
SAVANNAH — A federal agency Wednesday proposed a $145,000 fine for safety violations at Plant Vogtle, saying employees failed to perform "vital" checks of equipment and conditions at the nucle…
The owners of South Carolina's failed nuclear project could squeeze hundreds of millions of dollars out of their unfinished reactors by selling them for parts, according to a previously unrele…
COLUMBIA — SCANA electric customers may pay another $370 million for the V.C. Summer project before the state's utility regulators can decide if the company — or the ratepayers — foot the bill…
COLUMBIA — Lawmakers have demanded an investigation into a pro-utility email lobbying campaign that used people’s names and addresses without their knowledge.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers have received a barrage of form emails from constituents in recent days urging them to avoid passing laws they say could kill a proposed sale of SCANA Corp.…
COLUMBIA — As Westinghouse Electric's bankruptcy dashed South Carolina's nuclear ambitions, one group of people reaped the rewards: lawyers.
SCANA studied the idea of cutting its electric rates by nearly 10 percent before deciding to be acquired by Dominion Energy — a discount far more generous than it had previously offered in the…
COLUMBIA — Dominion Energy is hitting pause on an all-out marketing blitz meant to pitch the company's $14.6 billion takeover of SCANA Corp., after lawmakers reprimanded the utility for its ad…