McMaster's Proposal To Halt Nuclear Unit Payments Hits SCANA
Zacks Investment Research | Jan 24, 2018 09:31PM ET
SCANA Corporation (NYSE:SCG) lost roughly 5% after Henry McMaster, Governor of South Carolina, requested for a bill that will disallow the company from charging customers for the pair of failed reactors at its V.C. Summer nuclear plant.
A report from Office of Regulatory Staff claimed it is unlikely that SCANA will face bankruptcy if the ratepayers are not charged. This prompted McMaster to write to the lawmakers. However, SCANA did not hold the same opinion about the report.
When the markets thought that the proposed accord between SCANA and Dominion Energy, Inc. (NYSE:D) might be hurt by the letter from the Governor, media reports confirmed that the deal is still on the table.
Recently, electric utility SCANA signed a merger accord with larger peer Dominion Energy. Per the accord, each stock holder of SCANA will likely get 0.669 shares of Dominion. Considering the assumption of $6.7-billion debt of SCANA by Dominion, the transaction is worth roughly $14.6 billion. SCANA and Dominion expect the all-stock transaction to close this year, which awaits regulatory approvals.
SCANA lost 45.7% in 2017, underperforming the Zacks Investment Research
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