Regulators move forward with project similar to V.C. Summer By ROBERT MEYEROWITZ Georgia’s Public Service Commission set hearings yesterday to determine whether the Vogtle nuclear facility will be built there, with a decision expected in February. Three weeks ago, the Georgia Power Company told the regulators it wanted to complete the two-reactor project, near Waynesboro. It’s […]
September 15, 2017
Public Service Commissioner Screenings Suspended Indefinitely
Screening process would be “redundant” By HANNAH HILL and BRYCE FIEDLER The screening process for the Public Service Commission (PSC), the board that regulates the state’s private utilities, has been suspended “until further notice.” The PSC is a central player in the recently abandoned V.C. Summer nuclear construction project, and had primary control of the […]
September 15, 2017
Leadership is part of the job
Good governance is the expectation by BRYCE FIEDLER There are two important lessons we can learn from Hurricane Irma: One, that we as a community possess remarkable resolve when faced with adversity; and two, that we offer too much praise to government leaders who are simply doing their job. We have the misguided tendency to […]
September 8, 2017
Are they gonna bring back the eclipse?
The SC Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (PRT) is spending money to find out how much the state made off the eclipse. According to PRT’s newsletter, museums, state parks, etc. were sold out or nearly sold out due to this “rare celestial event.” It goes on to say: “Because this type of anecdotal evidence […]
September 5, 2017
And poof! nuke econ-develop gone too
Dreams of small reactors, “public-private” partnerships vanish By ROBERT MEYEROWITZ When partners SCANA and Santee Cooper decided to stop work on two V.C. Summer reactors July 31, it left a mountain of debt and a wake of finger-pointing. It also seemed to put the last nail in the coffin of what once had been touted […]
September 1, 2017
School busybodies
Legislators: stop fussing with education By HANNAH HILL $12,007: That’s how much South Carolina spent on average per K-12 pupil in fiscal year 2014-15. Earlier this week the Education Oversight Committee’s Melanie Barton and the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs office’s Frank Rainwater explained to lawmakers how those dollars are collected and divvied up among South […]
August 31, 2017
Georgia’s nukes: ‘We’ll go on’
Is it a ray of light for V.C. Summer? By ROBERT MEYEROWITZ The Georgia Power Company told Georgia regulators today that it wants to finish two nuclear reactors under construction in the state. It’s now the sole new nuclear construction in the U.S., since South Carolina’s SCANA and Santee Cooper abandoned construction of two V.C. […]
August 30, 2017
How customers lost the nuke bet — for now
The co-ops’ Mike Couick is angry and hopeful By ROBERT MEYEROWITZ Asked to explain his stake in the two abandoned, partly-built nuclear reactors at Jenkinsville, Mike Couick, head of the Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, says it’s simple: “My members have got $2.7 billion sunk in the red clay of Fairfield County.” Couick is referring […]
August 25, 2017
An agency that doesn’t even work on paper
Time to bid ORS adieu By HANNAH HILL During this week’s legislative energy committee meetings, executive director of the Office of Regulatory Staff (ORS) Dukes Scott stated that the statutory duties of the ORS conflict at times. The ORS is the entity tasked by state law to “represent the public interest of South Carolina” before […]
August 18, 2017
Listen to your accountant
On spending, how about self-discipline? By BRYCE FIEDLER The state Comptroller General’s office released its annual budget report this week, giving citizens insight into the sources of state revenue and how that money was spent as well as suggestions for future spending. Here’s the bottom line: The government needs to spend less. According to the report, […]
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