Pass a law that blocks SCE&G from continuing to charge its customers for two abandoned nuclear reactors, and I’ll sign it, S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster told state lawmakers Tuesday.
The Richland Republican, up for election in November, wrote a letter to the General Assembly asking lawmakers for a proposal “that ensures SCANA ratepayers will not pay a single additional dollar towards the failed V.C. Summer reactors.”
He also threatened to veto any bill that “continues to place the financial burden of this corporate failure on South Carolina ratepayers.”
The proposal McMaster wants, which the S.C. House and Senate already are considering, effectively would kill Virginia-based Dominion Energy’s deal to buy SCANA and refund its electric customers about $1,000 per household.
