New Rates and Benefits for South Carolina Customers

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The time-of-use demand rate has been reconfigured to better align with today's mix of generation sources and the region's changing usage patterns. These revisions provide you with the opportunity to shift energy-intensive consumption to times when there’s less demand on the energy grid. The revisions include shortened on-peak time periods and a much lower energy price offered during new, designated “discount periods.” Programmable appliances, thermostats, and electric vehicle charging timers are among several ways you can take advantage of these new hours. 

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The new critical peak pricing TOU rate offers another option that may better suit those with different energy usage patterns. Unlike other time-of-use rates, this simple critical peak plan does not include demand charges. Learn more about the revised time-of-use rate schedules. 

With this new residential rate, the summer season will change to the months of May through September and the non-summer season will be October through April. 

Learn more about the revised RES rate schedule on our Rates page.

The revised LGS-TOU rate includes several changes, including a three-tier demand structure (base, mid-peak and on-peak). 

In addition to the enhancements to our time-of-use rates, business customers now have a way to help determine the rate most advantageous for their facilities.

Learn more about new and revised rates for your business.

In addition to enhancements of our time-of-use rates,* customers now have a way to help determine the rate most advantageous for their home.

• Our Rate Comparison feature was added with the implementation of our new, modernized billing platform. South Carolina customers with 12 months of service can now utilize the tool by signing in to their online account and going to the Billing & Payments drop-down menu.

Customers with secondary meters on nonresidential rates that meet select criteria may be eligible for a residential rate.

• Stand-alone garages, personal workshops, sheds, etc., may now qualify for a residential rate. Depending on the energy usage characteristics, a change could reduce monthly costs for some customers.

Customers will see new, lower fees for services and returned checks.

The basic Customer Charge, which serves as the general monthly cost to serve customers' connection to the electric grid, remained unchanged as a part of the rate agreement.

• The facilities charge was unaltered to ensure customers with low kilowatt-hour usage and/or those on fixed incomes are not inequitably burdened with increases to this flat monthly customer fee.

*Customers currently on the solar time-of-use rate (R-STOU) will not see changes to their current structure.