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10-K - SCANA Corporation

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Table of Contents<br />

Regulated Utilities<br />

SCE&G is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to approximately 664,000 customers<br />

and the purchase, sale and transportation of natural gas to approximately 317,000 customers (each as of December 31, 2011).<br />

SCE&G’s business experiences seasonal fluctuations, with generally higher sales of electricity during the summer and winter months<br />

because of air conditioning and heating requirements, and generally higher sales of natural gas during the winter months due to<br />

heating requirements. SCE&G’s electric service territory extends into 24 counties covering nearly 17,000 square miles in the central,<br />

southern and southwestern portions of South Carolina. The service area for natural gas encompasses all or part of 35 counties in South<br />

Carolina and covers approximately 22,600 square miles. More than 3.2 million persons live in the counties where SCE&G conducts its<br />

business. Resale customers include municipalities, electric cooperatives, other investor-owned utilities, registered marketers and<br />

federal and state electric agencies. Predominant industries served by SCE&G include chemicals, educational services, paper products,<br />

food products, lumber and wood products, health services, textile manufacturing, rubber and miscellaneous plastic products and<br />

fabricated metal products.<br />

GENCO owns Williams Station and sells electricity solely to SCE&G.<br />

Fuel Company acquires, owns and provides financing for SCE&G’s nuclear fuel, certain fossil fuels and emission<br />

allowances.<br />

PSNC Energy purchases, sells and transports natural gas to approximately 487,000 residential, commercial and industrial<br />

customers (as of December 31, 2011). PSNC Energy serves 28 franchised counties covering 12,000 square miles in North Carolina.<br />

The predominant industries served by PSNC Energy include educational services, food products, health services, chemicals, nonwoven<br />

textiles and construction-related materials.<br />

CGT operates as an open access, transportation-only interstate pipeline company regulated by FERC. CGT operates in<br />

southeastern Georgia and in South Carolina and has interconnections with Southern Natural at Port Wentworth, Georgia and with<br />

Southern LNG, Inc. at Elba Island, near Savannah, Georgia. CGT also has interconnections with Southern Natural in Aiken County,<br />

South Carolina, and with Transco in Cherokee and Spartanburg counties, South Carolina. CGT’s customers include SCE&G (which<br />

uses natural gas for electricity generation and for gas distribution to retail customers), SEMI (which markets natural gas to industrial<br />

and sale for resale customers, primarily in the Southeast), municipalities, county gas authorities, federal and state agencies, marketers,<br />

power generators and industrial customers primarily engaged in the manufacturing or processing of ceramics, paper, metal, and<br />

textiles.<br />

Nonregulated Businesses<br />

SEMI markets natural gas primarily in the southeast and provides energy- related risk management services. <strong>SCANA</strong> Energy,<br />

a division of SEMI, sells natural gas to approximately 455,000 customers (as of December 31, 2011, and includes approximately<br />

80,000 customers in its regulated division) in Georgia’s natural gas market. <strong>SCANA</strong> Energy’s contract to serve as Georgia’s regulated<br />

provider of natural gas has been renewed by the GPSC through August 31, 2014. <strong>SCANA</strong> Energy’s total customer base represents an<br />

approximately 30% share of the approximately 1.5 million customers in Georgia’s deregulated natural gas market. <strong>SCANA</strong> Energy<br />

remains the second largest natural gas marketer in Georgia.<br />

SCI owns and operates a 500-mile fiber optic telecommunications network and ethernet network and data center facilities in<br />

South Carolina. Through a joint venture, SCI has an interest in an additional 2,280 miles of fiber in South Carolina, North Carolina<br />

and Georgia. SCI also provides tower site construction, management and rental services in South Carolina and North Carolina.<br />

The preceding Corporate Structure section describes other businesses owned by <strong>SCANA</strong>.<br />

COMPETITION<br />

For a discussion of the impact of competition, see the Overview section of Management’s Discussion and Analysis of<br />

Financial Condition and Results of Operations for <strong>SCANA</strong> and SCE&G.<br />

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