South Carolina Electric Utility Files Plan To End Coal Generation by 2030

On Feb. 19, Dominion Energy South Carolina filed its integrated resource plan (IRP), in a modified version, recommending in its “preferred” scenario, that by 2030, it would retire its coal generation plants, and otherwise convert one to natural gas. This new submission to the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC) is a response to a request by the PSC for new proposals, after the PSC was dissatisfied with Dominion Energy South Carolina’s filing in December 2020. In its latest filing the electric company submitted 14 different generation resource plans. The majority of these include putting in large installations of solar and solar-plus-battery storage complexes, to be added between 2030 and 2048. Shades of Sir Michael Anti-Coal Bloomberg, stalking the land.