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Santee Cooper, also known officially from the 1930s as the South Carolina Public Service Authority, is South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility that came into being during the New Deal as both a rural electrification and public works project that created two lakes and cleared large tracts of land while building hydro-electric dams and power plants. [1]
The site was first announced in 2013 as a joint venture between Santee Cooper and TIG Sun Energy LLC. [6] The construction of the site was expedited in order to qualify for federal tax credits, and the initial 1,010 panels and utility building were completed in 57 days. [7] In December 2013, the plant began operations under Santee Cooper.
The earthen and concrete dam was completed in 1941 by Santee Cooper, the state-owned electric and water utility also known as South Carolina Public Service Authority. [1] The dam is 138 feet high and 11,500 feet long at its crest. [2] Broadly speaking, the dam impounds the Cooper River and creates Lake Moultrie.
A large transmission tower collapsed into the Congaree River. This nonprofit says it belongs to this utility.
Under H. 5118, Santee Cooper and Dominion Energy have the same fiscal protections — if the project fails — as did Santee Cooper and SCE&G behind the VC Summer fiasco, according to Moore.
Santee Cooper agreed in December to offer the 40-year gratis lease to the humane society for about 10 acres near Myrtle Beach adjacent to one its turbine stations near the Intracoastal Waterway.
As a part of the settlement, Santee Cooper had to install LO-NOx burners to reduce nitrogen oxide (NO x) emissions at Grainger. [4] Grainger was retired in October 2012 by Santee Cooper as it was too costly to comply with the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS). [2]
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.