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Power Generation
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company is the principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation, an $8 billion energy-based holding company whose businesses include electric and natural gas utility operations, telecommunications and other energy-related businesses.
SCE&G generates, transports and delivers electricity to more than half a million homes and businesses throughout a 15,000-square-mile area of South Carolina. SCE&G supplies electricity to all or part of 24 counties in a service area that stretches from the coastal plain in the Lowcountry up through the Midlands until it approaches the foothills of the Piedmont region in the Upstate.
Electricity comes to homes and businesses through a network of cables or lines switches and transformers. But before it comes to you, it has to be generated or created.
Generation takes place in a power plant and is a rather complicated and costly process. The actual making of electric power takes place inside a generator, which is a large magnet that turns as fast as 3,600 revolutions per minute.
This process takes place in each of SCE&G's power plants. These plants fall into four different categories: nuclear, fossil-fired, hydroelectric and internal combustion turbines. Each fuel source has a different way of providing the force to turn the generator and make electricity.
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