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SC Code § 58-27-1040 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1040. Certain sections cumulative.

 Nothing contained in Sections 58-27-920 to 58-27-950 shall be construed to divest the Commission of any power otherwise possessed by it to regulate electrical utilities and the duties and powers thereby devolved upon the Commission are in addition to those otherwise imposed by law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-54; 1952 Code Section 24-54; 1942 Code Section 8239; 1934 (38) 1549; 1935 (39) 25.
SC Code § 58-27-1050 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1050. Distributed energy resources; report required.

 The Office of Regulatory Staff, with guidance and feedback from the electrical utilities and other interested parties, shall investigate and report to the Public Service Commission on fixed costs, fixed charges, and the extent of cost shifting that is attributable to distributed energy resources within current utility cost of service ratemaking methodologies, cost allocations, and rate designs, with a focus on the implications distributed energy resources could have for that business model in the future. The report shall review how to ensure a fair allocation of costs and benefits between consumers who utilize distributed energy resources and consumers who do not utilize distributed energy resources, as well as suggesting any necessary or prudent changes to existing or future rate structures. The report shall include a general overview of cost shifting that is attributable to or arising from historical cost of service ratemaking related to the current utility business model, specifically the cost of service ratemaking methodology, the cost allocations and rate designs. The findings shall include public comment and be reported to the Public Service Commission by December 31, 2015.  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 236 (S.1189), Section 5, eff June 2, 2014.  Editor's Note  2014 Act No. 236, Section 9, provides as follows:  "SECTION 9. If the application of the provisions of this act to any wholesale electrical contract existing on the date of its adoption is determined to impair unlawfully any term of such contract or to add material costs to either party, then that contract will be exempt from the terms of this act to the extent necessary to cure such impairment or to avoid the imposition of additional material costs."
SC Code § 58-27-1060 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1060. Electric vehicle charging stations.

 (A) A person or corporation who uses an electric vehicle charging station to resell electricity to the public for compensation is not an electric utility if:  (1) the person or corporation has procured the electricity from an electrical utility, municipality, consolidated political subdivision, the Public Service Authority, or an electric cooperative that is authorized to engage in the retail sale of electricity within the territory in which the electric vehicle charging service is provided;  (2) the person or corporation furnishes electricity exclusively for the charging of plug-in electric vehicles; and  (3) the charging station is immobile.  (B) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the ability of an electrical utility, municipality, consolidated political subdivision, the Public Service Authority, or an electric cooperative to use electric vehicle charging stations to furnish electricity for charging electric vehicles. Any increases in customer demand or energy consumption associated with transportation electrification shall not constitute found revenues for an electrical utility.  HISTORY: 2021 Act No. 46 (S.304), Section 1, eff May 17, 2021.
SC Code § 58-27-1210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1210. Extension of facilities; commission approval.

 (A) When ordered by the commission after a hearing, any electrical utility, distribution electric cooperative, or consolidated political subdivision, may be required to establish, construct, maintain, and operate any reasonable extension of its existing facilities. If any such extension, however, will interfere with the service or system of any other electrical utility, distribution electric cooperative, or consolidated political subdivision, the commission, on petition and after hearing, either may order the discontinuance of the extension or prescribe terms and conditions with respect thereto as may be just and reasonable. Each electrical utility, distribution electric cooperative, and consolidated political subdivision, within areas assigned to it by the commission and within three hundred feet of its lines, as defined in Section 58-27-610, is obligated to comply with all requests for service in accordance with its schedules of rates and service rules and regulations on file with the commission.  (B) Electric utilities, distribution cooperatives, or consolidated political subdivisions shall obtain commission approval of proposed construction of electric facilities only in the following situations where:  (1) one electric supplier proposes to construct a line that would cross the line of another electric supplier;  (2) one electric supplier proposes to construct a line that is within seventy feet of another electric supplier's line at any point unless the lines are separated by a publicly maintained roadway; or  (3) an electric supplier proposes to construct or extend a line through the territory of another electric supplier to or into a municipality.  No commission approval is required under this subsection where all affected electric suppliers reach an agreement on approval of the proposed construction or where either line is six hundred volts or less.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-61; 1952 Code Section 24-61; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493; 1969 (56) 740; 1972 (57) 2757; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 182, eff May 24, 2006; 2007 Act No. 16, Section 10, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 3, 2007).  Editor's Note  2007 Act No. 16, Section 1.(B), provides in part as follows:  ". . . Section 10 [amending this section] of this act is intended to specify those situations in which electric suppliers must obtain commission approval for construction of facilities and is intended to supersede Regulation 103-304, South Carolina Code of Regulations, to the extent it would require approval in any other situation."
SC Code § 58-27-1220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1220. Extensions by municipalities.

 Any municipality operating its own plant or transmission system, if granted by the Commission a certificate of convenience and necessity as provided by Section 58-27-1230, may extend its lines and electrical service into any territory adjacent to such municipality, as well as into any nearby city or town if there is no electrical utility then operating in such city or town.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-62; 1952 Code Section 24-62; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493.
SC Code § 58-27-1230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1230. Certificate of public convenience and necessity shall be obtained prior to construction, operation or extension of system; exceptions.

 No electrical utility, except a municipality within its corporate limits, shall hereafter begin the construction or operation of any electrical utility plant or system or of any extension thereof, except those ordered by the Commission under the provisions of Section 58-27-1210, without first obtaining from the Commission a certificate that public convenience and necessity require or will require such construction or operation. But unless such construction or operation has been commenced under a limited or conditional certificate of authority as provided by Section 58-27-1260, this section shall not be construed to require any such electrical utility to secure a certificate (a) for any extension within any municipality or district within which it had lawfully commenced operations prior to April 8, 1932, (b) for an extension within or to territory already served by it, necessary in the ordinary course of its business or (c) for an extension into territory contiguous to that already occupied by it and not receiving similar service from another electrical utility. No electrical utility, except a municipality within its corporate limits, shall exercise any right or privilege under any franchise or permit, the exercise of which has been suspended or discontinued for more than one year, without first obtaining from the Commission a certificate that public convenience and necessity require the exercise of such right or privilege.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-63; 1952 Code Section 24-63; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493.
SC Code § 58-27-1240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1240. Prerequisites to issuance of certificate.

 Before any certificate may issue hereunder, a certified copy of its articles of incorporation or charter, if the applicant be a corporation, must be on file in the office of the commission and in the Office of Regulatory Staff. Every applicant for a certificate shall give such notice of its application as the commission may require and must file in the office of the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff evidence required by the commission to show that the applicant has received any consent of local authorities that might be required under Article VIII, Section 15 of the Constitution of this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-64; 1952 Code Section 24-64; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 183, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-27-1250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1250. Issuance or refusal of certificate or modified certificate.

 The Commission may after hearing issue a certificate as prayed for or refuse to issue the same or may issue it for the construction or operation of a portion only of the contemplated facility, line, plant or system, or extension thereof or for the partial exercise only of the rights or privileges sought and may attach to the exercise of the rights granted by the certificate such terms and conditions in harmony with this chapter as in its judgment the public convenience and necessity may require.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-65; 1952 Code Section 24-65; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493.
SC Code § 58-27-1260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1260. Order preliminary to issuance of certificate.

 If an electrical utility, except a municipality within its corporate limits, desires to exercise a right or privilege under a permit, consent, or other authority which it contemplates securing but which has not as yet been granted to it, the electrical utility may apply to the commission for an order preliminary to the issuance of the certificate. The electrical utility also must serve a copy of its application upon the Office of Regulatory Staff. The commission may thereupon make an order declaring that it will thereafter, upon application, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, issue the desired certificate upon terms and conditions as it may designate after the electrical utility has obtained the contemplated permit, consent, or other authority. Upon the presentation to the commission of evidence satisfactory to it that such permit, consent, or other authority has been secured by such electrical utility, the commission must thereupon issue the certificate.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-66; 1952 Code Section 24-66; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 184, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-27-1270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1270. Cease and desist order when construction or operation proceeds in absence of certificate.

 Whenever an electrical utility, electric cooperative, consolidated political subdivision, public utility district, governmental body or agency, or another person or corporation is engaged or is about to engage in construction or operation without having secured a certificate of public convenience and necessity as required by the provisions of this chapter, or otherwise in violation thereof, any interested electrical utility, electric cooperative, consolidated political subdivision, corporation, municipality, or the Office of Regulatory Staff may file a petition with the commission. The commission may, with or without notice, make its order requiring the party complained of to cease and desist from construction or operation until the commission may, after hearing, issue an order and prescribe terms and conditions in harmony with this chapter as are just and reasonable.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-67; 1952 Code Section 24-67; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493; 1969 (56) 740; 1972 (57) 2757; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 185, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-27-1280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1280. Order where construction or extension causes unreasonable interference.

 If any electrical utility, electric cooperative, or any governmental body or agency which owns or operates equipment or facilities for generating, transmitting, delivering, or furnishing electricity in this State, in constructing or extending its lines, plant, or system, unreasonably interferes or is about to interfere unreasonably with the service or system of any other electrical utility, electric cooperative, or governmental body or agency, the commission on petition of the electrical utility, electric cooperative, the Office of Regulatory Staff, or governmental body or agency complaining to be injuriously affected may, after hearing, make orders and prescribe terms and conditions in harmony with this chapter as are just and reasonable, including the removal of lines and the issuance of a cease and desist order to the electrical utility, electric cooperative, or governmental body or agency causing the interference.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-68; 1952 Code Section 24-68; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493; 1969 (56) 740; 1972 (57) 2757; 1984 Act No. 431, Section 4, eff June 6, 1984; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 186, eff May 24, 2006.  Editor's Note  Section 57 of 1987 Act No. 173 (codified as Section 58-27-690) provides that this section shall not be modified, abridged or repealed by 1987 Act No. 173.
SC Code § 58-27-1290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1290. Abandonment of service.

 No electrical utility shall abandon all or any portion of its service to the public, except for ordinary discontinuance of service for nonpayment of undisputed charges in the usual course of business, unless written application is first made to the commission for the issuance of a certificate authorizing the abandonment, and until the commission in its discretion issues a certificate after a public hearing of all parties appearing to the commission to be interested. The electrical utility also must serve a copy of its application upon the Office of Regulatory Staff.  In any such case, any interested party shall have the right within fifteen days after the final order of the commission to apply to the Supreme Court for a review thereof, and in such case, no such abandonment shall be permitted until the appeal is heard and the Supreme Court by order permits the abandonment.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-69; 1952 Code Section 24-69; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 187, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-27-1300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1300. Disposition of properties, powers, franchises or privileges; certain out-of-state property may be sold.

 No electrical utility, without the approval of the commission and compliance with all other existing requirements of the laws of the State in relation thereto, may sell, assign, transfer, lease, consolidate, or merge its utility property, powers, franchises, or privileges, or any of them, except that any electrical utility which has utility property, the fair market value of which is one million dollars or less, may sell, assign, transfer, lease, consolidate, or merge this property without prior approval of the commission. The commission may, at its discretion, hold a hearing on the request of an electrical utility to sell, assign, transfer, lease, consolidate, or merge its utility property, powers, franchises, or privileges, or any of them. An electric utility seeking approval of a transfer under this provision shall serve a copy of the application on the Office of Regulatory Staff. For purposes of this section, "utility property" shall include property used and useful to provide customers with electric service and which has been properly included in the electric utility's rate base, including construction work in progress or property held to serve future customers. Utility property that has been transferred to nonutility accounts must continue to be treated as utility property under this provision for five years following the transfer.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-70; 1952 Code Section 24-70; 1942 Code Section 8555-2; 1932 (37) 1497; 1934 (38) 1452; 1935 (39) 207; 1937 (40) 493; 1988 Act No. 449, eff April 18, 1988; 1996 Act No. 349, Section 1, eff May 29, 1996; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 188, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-27-1310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1310. Lease of property and franchises.

 Any electric light company organized under the laws of this State may lease its property and franchises to any other electric light company, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by a majority of the stockholders at a special meeting called after thirty days' advertisement.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-71; 1952 Code Section 24-71; 1942 Code Section 8187; 1932 Code Section 8187; Civ. C. '22 Section 4367; Civ. C. '12 Section 2881; 1908 (24) 1090.
SC Code § 58-27-1320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1320. Municipality may purchase property operated under indeterminate permit.

 Any electrical utility operating in a city or town under an indeterminate permit shall be deemed to have consented to the purchase by such city or town for just compensation, including severance damages, if any, of the property of such electrical utility operated in such city or town under such permit.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-72; 1952 Code Section 24-72; 1942 Code Section 8555-3; 1932 (37) 1497.
SC Code § 58-27-1330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1330. Notice of municipality's intent to acquire property of utility.

 When the municipal council or other governing body of any city or town, after a public hearing of which at least thirty days' notice has been given, by ordinance or resolution duly adopted by a majority vote, expresses a desire and declares its purpose to acquire for the city or town the property of an electrical utility so operated therein as authorized under the provisions of this chapter, immediate notice by registered mail of the action of such municipal council or governing body shall be given by it to the commission and the Office of Regulatory Staff, to the electrical utility, and to all of its mortgagees or other lienors appearing of record in the county in which such city or town is situated.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-73; 1952 Code Section 24-73; 1942 Code Section 8555-3; 1932 (37) 1497; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 189, eff May 24, 2006.
SC Code § 58-27-1340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers|Chapter 27 - Electric Utilities And Electric Cooperatives|Section 58-27-1340. Determination of just compensation for purchase of electrical utility.

 When the commission has been notified that a city or town has expressed its desire and purpose to purchase the property of the electrical utility operated under the indeterminate permit in the city or town and has also been notified that the parties to the purchase and sale are unable to agree upon the amount to be paid and received therefor, the commission must, after not less than thirty days' notice to the Office of Regulatory Staff, the city or town, and to the electrical utility, as well as to all of its mortgagees and lienors appearing of record in the county in which the city or town is situated, hold a public hearing upon the matter of just compensation, including severance damages if any, to be paid for the taking of the property by the city or town. Within a reasonable time after the public hearing, the commission must by order fix and determine and certify to the clerk of the city or town, to the electrical utility, and to any bondholder, mortgagee, lienor, or other interested party who has entered an appearance in the proceeding the just compensation, including the damages, if any. The order of the commission may be reviewed as provided in this chapter for the review of other orders of the commission. The commission must not be a party to an action for review.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 24-74; 1952 Code Section 24-74; 1942 Code Section 8555-3; 1932 (37) 1497; 2006 Act No. 318, Section 190, eff May 24, 2006.