Santee News

Santee Cooper announced it will install more wind testing instruments in Georgetown County.

Sheriff's investigators say they're conducting an inquiry into an Orangeburg business.

Federal, state and local emergency officials are holding a drill simulating a terrorist strike at a South Carolina dam.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:43 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:43 a.m. Sustainability through an "energy lens" will be the focus of the next lecture in the Santee Cooper Lecture Series on Sustainability & Energy Thursday at Wofford College.

Large wind turbines would be clearly visible two miles off the South Carolina coast but would all but disappear into the haze eight miles out to sea, a new photo simulation shows.

A photo simulation made as part of a South Carolina utility's research into wind power shows large wind turbines would barely be visible if built eight miles off the state's coast.

A Santee Cooper -commissioned study says that offshore wind farms located up to eight miles past the shoreline would be visible from the coast.

SCE&G officials are on notice that Beaufort County has concerns about spraying herbicides to keep power lines clear of vegetation.

South Carolina's electricity cooperatives have an $800 million plan that could dramatically cut energy use in nearly a quarter million homes -- and cost almost no money.

South Carolina's electricity cooperatives have an $800 million plan that could dramatically cut energy use in nearly a quarter-million homes -- and cost almost no money.

Lee County Council discussed extensive facility improvements needed at the various county-owned buildings at a workshop held Tuesday morning at the Lee County Courthouse.

The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control is beginning a study on mercury pollution in Florence area waterways.

A man who police said admitted to killing his wife last year entered a not-guilty plea Monday.

A new New York company hopes to complete financing of a Syracuse plant to make electric cars by the end of this year and start rolling out plug-in hatchbacks in late 2010.

Most people generally don't want to think about what happens when they flush the toilet.

The University of South Carolina is getting nearly $5 million in federal funds to study possible ways to curb climate change.

Little River Electric Cooperative, Santee Cooper and the Abbeville County School District dedicated today a Green Power Solar School at Diamond Hill Elementary School.

A sludge storage tank and biocrude fuel manufacturing facility proposed for Westvaco Road will have to jump through several hoops if it is going to become a reality.

For the first time in six weeks, Judy Shaw did not have to spend a night sleeping on the porch of her burned out home.

Perhaps the heaviest gator harvested in South Carolina's alligator hunting season was taken last Saturday near the town of Elloree.