Scana.com
Overview
SCANA is a high ranking Fortune 500 energy producing company based in Columbia, South Carolina. SCANA's focuses include regulated electric energy and natural gas utility operations. SCANA mainly operates in the American south east, primarily in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. SCANA serves over 600,000 electric customers and upwards of 1 million natural gas customers.
History
SCANA's origins can be traced back to Charleston, South Carolina in 1846. SCANA's first predecessor was Charleston Gas Light Company. Formed by local business leaders, the new company focused primarily on coal, oil, and resins. When the first gas street lights appeared in 1848, SCANA helped to catapult them into success by providing gas as well as laying gas lines. By 1889, every main street in the South Carolina capitol of Columbia had a gas main through the hard work of the Columbia Gas Light Company, which was formed in 1854.
In 1879, when the light bulb was invented, new electrical companies began cropping up to seize hold of the flourishing electrical energy market. In 1887, the Congaree Gas & Electric Company formed to provide energy to Columbia. These two basic and important predecessors, along with several other smaller companies such as the Charleston City Railway Company and the Columbia Water Power Company, would go on to help form the Broad River Power Company as a subsidiary of General Gas and Electric Corporation in 1924. In 1937, this flourishing company would change its name to South Carolina Electric and Gas Company and, 5 years later, merged with the Lexington Water Power Company to become even larger. South Carolina Electric and Gas continued to press on through the power industry while setting many precedents, including their becoming the first South Carolina based company to ever be listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1946, the very same year that South Carolina Electric and Gas became an independent company.
Over the next forty years, South Carolina Electric and Gas would prove its resilience and strength. In 1950, the company merged with the South Carolina Power Company. In 1951, the South Carolina Generating Company was formed as a subsidiary company to build Urquhart Station. The very next year, an additional subsidiary company, the South Carolina Natural Gas Company, was formed to build gas lines and distribute natural gas. In 1959, SCE&G joined forces with three neighboring utility providers to build the very first nuclear power plant in the southeast United States. In 1963, SCE&G put in operation the Parr prototype reactor. In 1971, SCE&G began plans to build a nuclear plant two miles from the Parr reactor.
Finally, in January of 1982, SCE&G would merge with Carolina Energies, Inc. under the new name South Carolina Electric and Gas Company. Two years later, South Carolina Electric and Gas Company restructured and officially became SCANA, the same company that exists to provide natural gas and electrical energy to the south eastern United States modern day.
Present Day
SCANA has grown from its humble roots to serve over 1 million customers throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. SCANA, in addition to natural gas and electricity, has led ventures into telecommunication services, personal communication services, power plant management, natural gas exploration and production, natural gas brokering, propane sales, and home appliance service contracts. SCANA's net worth is known to be well over $9 billion USD.
SCANA prides itself on maintaining a platform of consumer loyalty and extremely high professional and ethical standards. SCANA summarizes its platform with a six letter mnemonic, which they call SACRED. Namely:
Serve our community Achieve Communicate openly and honestly Respect diversity and care for each other Excel in customer service and safety Do what is right.
Languages
English
Address
- 1426 Main St
- Columbia SC 29218 US
Contact
- SCANA Corporation
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- +1 803 733 4247, Fax: +1 803 733 2825
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