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…
