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Committee adopts subcommittee amendment and advances broad energy bill covering siting, procurement, small modular reactors and joint projects
Summary
The Senate committee advanced a comprehensive energy bill after adopting a subcommittee amendment that narrows some joint‑ownership language and preserves expedited permitting and IRP reforms, while removing a pilot authorization for small modular reactors via amendment.
The Senate Judiciary Committee took up a comprehensive energy omnibus (identified in the hearing as 03/1200 / House Bill 3309) and adopted the subcommittee amendment as the working document before reporting the measure favorably.
Breeden, staff for the committee, walked members through the bill section by section. The legislation would expand statutory duties for the Public Service Commission (PSC); require procedural schedules and discovery limits for commission proceedings; create an Energy Policy and Research Institute housed at a university to prepare policy briefings; and encourage evaluation of specific generation projects — including joint projects between Santee Cooper and investor-owned utilities, energy storage, and hydrogen-capable generation.
Key provisions described on the record include: - Authorization for a narrowly defined joint resource: the subcommittee narrowed language so Santee Cooper may partner specifically with Dominion Energy on a proposed natural gas plant at the Kennedy's brownfield site…
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