By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | For the coming 2020 legislative session, the past may prove to be prologue. Here are some of 2019’s stories that will likely play out beginning Jan. 14, the second year of a two-year session:
Perhaps the biggest question of the 2020 session will be the fate of state-owned utility Santee Cooper. In 2019, lawmakers kicked around a bunch of ideas, ordered reports and debated a bit on its fate.
By the end of January, lawmakers should have a new report from the S.C. Department of Administration detailing bids that will include options selling it to a private entity, such as Duke Energy or NextEra; or having a company like Dominion Energy manage it; or keeping the utility as a state-owned asset that is restructured.
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