A resolution, S 0998, has been introduced into the South Carolina legislature which would require, among other things, a study of, "enabling full consumer retail electric service choice"

The bill would create an Electricity Market Reform Measures Study Committee, which shall study whether to adopt a variety of electricity market reform measures, encompassing the full range of possible market reforms that may benefit South Carolina consumers, including, but not limited to, the following:

(a) establishing a South Carolina RTO to include South Carolina and other Southeastern states;

(b) joining an existing RTO;

(c) establishing an energy imbalance market;

(d) requiring vertically integrated electrical utilities to divest their generation or transmission assets, or both;

(e) enabling full consumer retail electric service choice;

(f) enabling partial consumer retail electric service choice such as non-residential customer choice;

(g) authorizing community choice aggregation in South Carolina;

(h) redesigning the distribution system operator role in South Carolina to accommodate a modernized distribution grid featuring high levels of distributed energy resources, including exploration of establishing an independent distribution system operator and distribution-level electricity markets; and

(i) accelerating the transformation of South Carolina's electricity supply to achieve one hundred percent emissions-free generation; and

The study committee shall, among other things, evaluate:

• the potential costs and benefits to South Carolina electric consumers and ratepayers of each electricity market reform measure studied based on generation production cost savings, fuel savings, transmission cost savings, battery storage, reliability, resiliency, generation resource diversity, generator availability, the integration of demand response and energy efficiency, deployment of renewable resources, deferral of capital investments, and the impact on consumer rates and service quality in the short and long-term; and

• the experience of other states with adopting each electricity market reform measure studied.

See the resolution for more details

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South Carolina   Energy Choice   Electric choice   Deregulation  

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