en.Wedoany.com Reported - The South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC) recently formally confirmed the Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Convenience and Necessity issued on May 15 for the proposed Canadys gas power plant project. The final order did not set a cap on the project's continuously rising estimated total cost, nor did it require the closure of aging coal-fired power plants or the protection of the ecologically valuable ACE Basin.

Paul Black, Senior Organizer for the Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign in the Carolinas, stated in response that the PSC has once again shifted all financial risks onto customers served by monopolies, while increasing profits for utility executives and shareholders. He noted that requiring customers to pay billions of dollars years before the plant generates electricity, without consumer protection measures, will exacerbate energy cost pressures on local families and businesses. Black called on the PSC to establish robust protection mechanisms for residential and small business customers as soon as possible, and to require data centers to pay a fair share for the large amounts of electricity they consume.

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