SCE&G launches 16 MW community solar program in South Carolina

photon-magazineJune 11, 2017163

US utility South Carolina Electric and gas (SCE&G), a subsidiary of Scana Corporation, introduced South Carolina’s largest community solar program with a capacity of 16 MW. Through the SCE&G Community Solar Program, residential customers and eligible nonresidential customers may purchase or subscribe to solar panels at several solar facilities to be constructed within SCE&G’s service territory. In exchange for the electricity produced by their panels, participants will receive credits on their monthly utility bills there by lowering their monthly expenses. The program is available to residential electric customers who own or rent their homes, and to schools, churches and municipalities, says the company.

However, compared to other US utilities the SCE&G targets are not very ambitious. The company’s aims to install 42 MW of utility-scale solar by 2020. SCE&G also provides customer programs to support the development of more than 42 MW of customer-scale solar generation by 2020. Parent company Scana Corporation delivers mostly electricity generated by nuclear plants (30 percent), coal plants (30 percent) and natural gas (30 percent).

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