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Wed, 01/29/2020 - 2:00am
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Santee Cooper rescue costs $5M
Wed, 01/22/2020 - 9:22am
How to fix Santee Cooper and its $8 billion debt has cost taxpayers $5 million.
The state hired 8 private firms to evaluate proposals to buy or manage the taxpayer-owned power utility.
State’s secret Santee Cooper sale
Wed, 01/15/2020 - 2:00am
Our state lawmakers have inherited a long history of backroom deals with tax money and taxpayer assets.
Experts: Sell Santee Cooper
Tue, 01/07/2020 - 9:31am
A research group finds a single solution to protect state taxpayers and Santee Cooper ratepayers.
Public watchdog Palmetto Promise says only selling Santee Cooper can reduce or end its enormous costs.
Palmetto Promise says a sale will allow a write-down of $4 billion in nuclear debt.
The findings’ authors, energy experts Oran Smith and Kathleen Grace, say taxpayer-owned Santee Cooper and its ratepayers face:
Santee Cooper wants $163M more
Wed, 12/11/2019 - 2:00am
Santee Cooper’s debt-ridden directors are borrowing $163 million in a bond sale.
The taxpayer-owned utility already owes $8 billion.