South Carolina’s Santee Cooper has hiked rates on mega users (50MW+), as Google and Meta pump billions into local AI data ...

State-owned SC utility acts as Legislature considers requiring all power companies to avoid shifting costs from massive new ...

Santee Cooper's electric customers are having to learn some new habits, now that the utility's residential rates depend what time power is used, in what month, as well as how much is used.

Lastly, the new rules will require large load users to ramp up to their full contracted power usage within three years, to prevent companies from overselling and not meeting their contracted capacity.