I began my career in this industry as a customer service representative, and I can’t stress enough how much that role taught me about what’s really important to any business – the customer. Although I’ve moved on from answering phones…
Five years ago, I remember waking up early on a Saturday morning in September and making an hour and a half trip to Columbia for an electric vehicle car show that was being held in a Whole Foods parking lot.…
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. –– Santee Cooper will conduct a test of its 15 warning sirens for the Santee Dam flood plain in Berkeley, Clarendon and Williamsburg counties at 10 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 18. As part of the test, Santee…
Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 and serves as a month-long appreciation of Hispanic countries and the culture each one has brought to the United States. Hispanic Heritage Week was expanded to Hispanic Heritage Month in…
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – Twenty years ago this month, Santee Cooper became the first South Carolina utility to provide renewable power to customers, and Santee Cooper Green Power has helped power South Carolina ever since. On Sept. 4, 2001, Santee…
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – The Pinopolis Navigational Lock on Lake Moultrie at Jefferies Hydroelectric Station will be out of service beginning on Monday, Sept. 27, through Friday, Dec. 17, for planned maintenance. At the conclusion of the maintenance, winter hours…
Solar power is a very important sustainable energy resource. According to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy , in 2020 solar power provided an estimated 97.2 gigawatts of electricity, which is enough to power 18 million average American…
On Aug. 24, Santee Cooper joined utilities across the nation to celebrate National Hydropower Day. This is important nationwide because hydropower is America’s first renewable resource and still plays an important role in the country’s electricity story. It’s also important…
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – Continuing its work to reduce debt and costs to customers, the Santee Cooper Board of Directors approved $430 million in bond sales today that will do three things: Refund $174 million of existing debt at lower…
The U.S. Congress officially designated Aug. 26 as “Women’s Equality Day” in 1973, commemorating the 19 th Amendment that granted women the right to vote. This year happens to be the 101 st anniversary of the amendment, and while progress…