SCANA
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SCANA Corporation (NYSE: SCG) is a $9 billion Fortune 500 energy-based holding company, based in Columbia, South Carolina, whose businesses include regulated electric and natural gas utility operations and other energy-related businesses. SCANA's subsidiaries serve approximately 610,000 electric customers in South Carolina and more than one million natural gas customers in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.
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[edit] South Carolina Electric & Gas Company
In 1927, the Lexington Water Power Company received a license to build a dam on the Saluda River northwest of Columbia. Saluda Dam, which would create the 50,000-acre Lake Murray, was the largest man-made barrier built for power production in the world when completed in 1930. In addition, the project provided desperately needed jobs in the lean years leading up to and beyond the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression.
In 1937, the Broad River Power Company changed its name to South Carolina Electric & Gas Company. It remains SCANA Corporation's principal subsidiary today. Five years later, Lexington Water Power Company merged with SCE&G. Today, SCE&G, is a regulated public utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to nearly 620,000 retail and wholesale customers in a service area covering more than 15,000 square miles in the central, southern and southwestern portions of South Carolina. The company is also engaged in the purchase and sale of natural gas, primarily at retail, to approximately 291,000 customers in a service area covering more than 22,000 square miles in central and southern South Carolina.
[edit] Carolina Gas Transmission
Formed in November 2006, CGTC is an interstate natural gas pipeline in South Carolina and Georgia regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Its precessors were the South Carolina Pipeline Company and SCG Pipeline Company. CGTC receives gas from Southern Natural Gas Company, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation and the Southern LNG terminal at Elba Island, Georgia.
[edit] Public Service Company of North Carolina
PSNC Energy is a regulated public utility engaged primarily in purchasing, transporting, distributing and selling natural gas to approximately 425,000 customers in the north central, Piedmont and western areas of North Carolina. The service area encompasses 28 counties and covers approximately 12,000 square miles in North Carolina. Its headquarters is in Gastonia, North Carolina.
[edit] SCANA Energy Marketing, Inc
Based in Atlanta, SCANA Energy is the second largest marketer of natural gas in Georgia, serving more than 475,000 customers. The company has a regulated unit, SCANA Energy Regulated Division, selected by the Georgia Public Service Commission to serve as the state’s only regulated natural gas provider.
[edit] SCANA Communications
SCANA Communications offers a wide range of leading edge communications solutions in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. The company operates fiber optic LONG-HAUL and ACCESS networks throughout South Carolina and in parts of North Carolina and Georgia, and leverages the fiber of its partners, Palmetto Net and FRC, which are regional Interexchange carriers.
SCANA Communications also offers clients with Point-of-Presence (POP) equipment co-location at designated sites along the fiber route and has a state-of-the-art data center in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. In addition, the company offers a full suite of communication tower services designed to meet the needs of both fixed and mobile wireless providers. Services include site acquisition, zoning support, build-to-suite, site management of existing towers, shared tenant co-location, and fiber backbone access.
Customers include telecom carriers and large retail businesses, including all of the major long distance and cellular carriers.
