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SCANA Corporation is a $9 billion energy-based holding company, based in Cayce, South Carolina, a suburb of Columbia. Its businesses include regulated electric and natural gas utility operations and other energy-related businesses. SCANA's subsidiaries serve approximately 662,000 electric customers in South Carolina and more than one million natural gas customers in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. The corporate name SCANA is not an acronym, but is taken from the letters in South Carolina. ==South Carolina Electric & Gas Company== South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), SCANA's leading subsidiary, traces its history to 1846, when a group of Charleston business leaders formed the Charleston Gas Light Company. However, its corporate structure dates to 1924, with the formation of Broad River Power Company. A year later, Broad River bought the electric and gas properties of Columbia Railway, Gas and Electric Company.〔 In 1927, the Lexington Water Power Company received a license to build a dam on the Saluda River northwest of Columbia. Saluda Dam, which would create the Lake Murray, was the largest man-made barrier built for power production in the world when completed in 1930. In addition, the project provided jobs during the Great Depression.〔 In 1937, the Broad River Power Company changed its name to South Carolina Electric & Gas Company. Five years later, Lexington Water Power Company merged with SCE&G. This was followed in 1948 with the acquisition of South Carolina Power Company, successor to Charleston Gas Light. In 1984, SCE&G formed SCANA as a holding company. Today, SCE&G is a regulated public utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to approximately 661,000 retail and wholesale customers in a service area covering more than in the central, southern and southwestern portions of South Carolina. The company is also engaged in the purchase and sale of natural gas, primarily at retail, to approximately 314,000 customers in a service area covering more than --most of the state outside of the Upstate and the South Carolina portion of the Charlotte area. SCE&G currently operates 4 hydroelectric plants, 1 pumped-storage hydroelectric plant, 4 coal-fired plants, 1 nuclear plant, 1 combined cycle power plant, 1 "re-powered" formerly coal-fired plant with a natural gas-powered steam unit and two combined cycle units, and 16 simple cycle combustion turbines. The total output is over 5,800 MW.〔http://www.sceg.com/en/about-sceg/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SCANA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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