Columbia is 100 miles south of Downtown Charlotte. The new contract was a renegotiation of a 1997 plan, which would have fallen short of demand. The agreement calls for South Carolina Electric to supply Orangeburg DPU initial daily capacity of153 megawatts of electricity.
The previous contract, due to run through 2003, later this year would have reduced the amount of electricity to about 100 megawatts, leaving Orangeburg about 50 megawatts short of projected capacity requirements.
South Carolina Electric sold more than 23 million megawatt hours of electricity last year. The company provides service to more than 537,000 customers in a 15,000 square mile area of central and south Carolina.
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David Wilkening
David Wilkening began his long journalism career as a police reporter for Chicago-area newspapers. He became a writer-editor for major newspapers in Chicago, Washington, Detroit and Florida. He has been a business editor, political editor and travel editor for newspapers and magazines. He tried for a while to be a political operative but did better as an adjunct college professor teaching English and journalism. He is the author of several books, both ghost-written and under his own name. He is also a widely published freelance writer who currently lives in Orlando.
