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A board of directors appointed by the governor and approved by the state Senate governs Santee Cooper. A board member represents each congressional district and each of the three counties where Santee Cooper serves retail customers directly; two board member have previous electric cooperative experience; and the chairman is appointed at-large.
Sen. Luke Rankin has business ties to a board member at the state-owned Santee Cooper utility. He also is a key player in the debate over whether Santee Cooper should be allowed to build a huge ...
The state owned utility has not had a rate increase since 2017 and in 2020 agreed to freeze rates through 2024. ... if approved by the Santee Cooper board later this year, would go into effect in ...
In November 2020, Hugh Leatherman, the chairman for the senate finance committee, called for the chairman of Santee Cooper to resign after the utility entered into a $638 million debt deal. [43] Leatherman stated the deal may have violated state law. [43] From at least 2017 to April 2021, the Santee Cooper board was without a permanent chairman ...
State-owned power company Santee Cooper has its own plan to replace part of the 1100 megawatts that will be lost when it closes a coal-fired power plant in Georgetown later this decade.
Singleton wrote in an email to The Sun News that as a Santee Cooper board member representing Horry County, he looks for ways the agency can serve the public interest beyond providing electricity ...
Toal oversaw the court cases involving Santee Cooper following the Nukegate scandal. [11] She was required to sign off Santee Cooper's $520 million settlement with ratepayers. [ 12 ] She has also overseen all asbestos-related litigation in South Carolina since leaving the South Carolina Supreme Court. [ 13 ]
The commission also approved a bonus for CEO of the state-owned Santee Cooper electric utility. Santee Cooper CEO Jimmy Staton received nearly $247,000 bonus in performance-based incentives. He ...