POWER for Wildlife

SCE&G is a founding member of POWER (Protect Our Wildlife at Every Right-of-Way), a wildlife management program designed to create new forage and shelter for many game and non-game species in SCE&G rights-of-way beneath electrical transmission lines.

POWER is a joint venture with public and private utilities, South Carolina Conservation and Development Councils, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, United States Department of Agriculture, and other partners. The project works by offering cash grants and professional wildlife management advice to groups and individuals committed to five years of right-of-way wildlife management.

Individual landowners and groups can plant seeds and fruit bearing vegetation to attract wildlife and help maintain active, healthy biological communities in these areas. More than 500 acres of SCE&G transmission rights-of-way are maintained as part of this program.