SCE&G rates need to be reduced 37%

Posted 5/3/18

our readers write

The legislature does not want to make another horrible mistake like the one they made back in 2007 with the Base Load Review Act. But let’s get serious. That law was passed …

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SCE&G rates need to be reduced 37%

Posted

our readers write

The legislature does not want to make another horrible mistake like the one they made back in 2007 with the Base Load Review Act. But let’s get serious. That law was passed in 21 days and SCANA has been collecting millions on it for 10 years. It’s time for it to stop.Gov. Henry McMaster says he won’t sign anything that doesn’t stop all the nuclear reactor fiasco rates from ratepayers’ bills. But he is still using the SCANA figure of 18%. That quite simply is not accurate. That 18% rate increase has never been proven. 37% is the real figure.

Just take the rate of $0.09954 per kWh (kilowatt hour) which was the rate from 2008 bills and multiply it by .37075, the 37% I claim we pay. Then add the answer, 0.03690446 to the 2008 rate of $0.09954, and you will get the figure of $0.136440 which is the rate you pay every month. That’s proof of the 37% I’ve been saying. If the Senate and House, and yes, the Governor, really want to stop you from paying SCANA’s unconstitutional nuclear reactor debacle extortion fee, then 37% is what needs to be removed from our rates – not the insulting 5%, or 13%, or even the 18% SCANA claims its rate hikes are.

No, this will NOT bankrupt SCANA subsidiary SC Electric & Gas. This 37% is free money, extortion money, being paid to them for nothing – no millions in ratepayer savings as they promised nor a promised cleaner environment. The actual electricity consumption you are using will continue to be paid. We, the ratepayers, don’t ask for free electricity from SCE&G. But we should get free service for years to make up for what we’ve paid. Our lawmakers could help us by first taking this unjust 37% off our backs. They should prove they are with us, their constituents, and not the donations paid by SCANA and maybe even Dominion.

Sandra Wright, Irmo

Lawmakers fail us again

I am outraged at what happened last month. SC lawmakers voted 61-44 to remove the cap on the solar industry to expand clean energy to state residents. Of course SCE&G and Duke, who have a complete monopoly on their power customers cried foul. They suggest that they will lose $1 million a year if the cap is removed. This after they are charging not millions but billions of dollars from their captive customers for the failed nuclear plant that they mismanaged. They wasted billions of their customers money due to their mistakes. I have solar panels on my house and feed energy to SCE&G for their use when my panels produce on sunny days. I produce power for them to sell to other customers. For this I get a reduced SCE&G bill. When the sun goes down, I still use their power at their rates. Apparently they detest competition even from their own captive customers. So they cry that a 2/3 majority is required – after the vote. This is crooked. We need to raise our voices before they screw us again. They need to be contained.

Allen Danielsen, Gilbert

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