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POSITIVE BEARING // ENERGY INNOVATION // DOING OUR HOMEWORK

FALL2015


Homework is not a word most students like to hear. But at the 16 SCE&G-sponsored Homework Centers in South Carolina, students find homework fun and challenging. SCE&G created the Homework Centers program in 1991 to provide a safe, structured and fun learning environment to strengthen students’ academic skills. While the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce has assumed administrative responsibilities, SCE&G continues to fund the program, providing two certified teachers, snacks and activities at each school. In this edition of Insights, we’re celebrating the program’s 25th anniversary.

Education also is a cornerstone of the Port Royal Sound Foundation and Maritime Center near Beaufort. The Foundation has renovated the former Lemon Island Marina to create an education center focused on the rich history and diverse ecology of the Port Royal Sound area. SCE&G partnered with the Foundation to provide funding for the $2 million renovation. You’ll read about the exciting education programs the Center has to offer.

Lynne Douglass is another individual who is doing great things for her community. Douglass is director of Lake Monticello Family Practice in Jenkinsville. Through the dedication of Douglass and her staff, the practice delivers much-needed healthcare services to Fairfield County. Learn how Douglass made her goal of improving the well-being of her community a reality.

Construction of our new nuclear units continues to progress. This summer, SCE&G achieved several important milestones, including placement of the CA04 and CA01 modules. CA04 is the reactor vessel cavity that will house the Unit 3 reactor vessel and related components. The CA01 module is a multi-compartment steel structure within the Unit 2 containment vessel. Placing these two “super modules” was a complicated operation that required the onsite 550-foot-tall heavy lift derrick. An update on the construction project begins on page 26.

While we believe nuclear power is the best solution for South Carolina’s long-term energy needs, we continue to support the development of other alternative forms of energy, including solar and wind. This issue highlights the work being done at the SCE&G Energy Innovation Center in North Charleston. SCE&G partnered with Clemson University on the project to create the center, which is designed to accelerate the development of wind turbine technology.

This edition’s economic development feature spotlights the JTEKT/Koyo facility in Blythewood, South Carolina. The plant produces wheel hub bearing units for automakers and has recently completed a major expansion. SCE&G has served JTEKT/Koyo for 20 years, and we’re pleased to tell their story.

As another year comes to a close, we reaffirm our commitment to serving our customers with safe, reliable energy and contributing to the well-being of our communities.

Kevin Marsh, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, SCANA Corporation

FALL 2015 • VOLUME 28, NUMBER 3

2 PositiveBearingJTEKT/Koyo expands its Blythewood hub bearing manufacturing facility to accommodate new business.

8 HowSweettheSound History and ecology are on display at the Port Royal Sound Maritime Center.

12 EnergyInnovation The future of power generation is being explored at the SCE&G Energy Innovation Center.

18 CaringforaCommunity Lake Monticello Family Practice delivers critically needed healthcare services.

22 DoingOurHomework Homework Centers Program celebrates a quarter century of helping students.

26 ProgressReport Construction of SCE&G’s two new nuclear plants reaches important milestones.

Insights is produced three times a year by the SCANA Marketing & Communications Dept. SCANA Corp. is a $13 billion energy-based holding company with subsidiaries

providing electric and natural gas services.

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BY JIM POINDEXTER | PHOTOS BY ROBERT CLARK

JTEKT/Koyo expands its Blythewood hub bearing manufacturing facility to accommodate new business.

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Stepping onto the production floor of the recently expanded JTEKT/Koyo plant in Blythewood, South Carolina is akin to entering a small city. Long blocks of hulking machinery form a skyline that stretches to the far end of the expansive building. Forklifts and electric vehicles pulling carts of polished metal parts hurry along the plant’s main thoroughfare. The place bustles with noise and the activity of busy workers.

The expansion of the JTEKT/Koyo plant doubled the size of the facility to 500,000 square feet.


This morning, David Green, environmental, health and safety coordinator, is leading a tour of the new facilities. He reminds his visitors to stay in the pedestrian path marked by two painted yellow lines that run along the perimeter of the production areas. Green started working at the plant in 1996, a year after it opened. He was a project manager for the latest expansion, the largest in the plant’s history, and the pride he feels for what’s been accomplished is evident.

“I am extremely proud of the new facility,” Green said. “We put a lot of thought into planning this expansion. We’ve doubled the size of the plant and we now have the space we need to bring in new business.”

JTEKT North America is a major supplier of steering systems, driveline components and bearings to automotive manufacturers in North America. Koyo, the JTEKT brand for bearings, has three manufacturing facilities in the United States, two in South Carolina. Koyo’s bearing plant in Orangeburg has been in operation since 1975.

The Blythewood facility produces wheel hub bearing units for automotive customers, including Toyota, Honda, Ford, General Motors and BMW. Part of a car’s wheel assembly, the hub bearing unit plays a crucial role in the safety and handling characteristics of a vehicle. The plant produces pre-assembled units comprised of bearings, seals and sensors, including the anti-lock brake sensor.

Plant Manager Bobby Howell said the $130 million expansion of the plant is a significant step forward for JTEKT/Koyo.

“This is JTEKT’s only hub bearing manufacturing plant in North America,” Howell said. “It makes us all proud that JTEKT has invested so much into this plant, as well as the local economy. Our goal is to be the number one manufacturer of automotive bearings in the world, and I think this expansion is a stride toward that goal.”

JTEKT announced its plans to expand the Blythewood facility in 2012 after considering other sites in the United States and Mexico. At the time of the announcement, JTEKT Vice President and General Manager Steve McCullough said, “This is a great announcement for our Richland County plant. Many locations were considered for this large capital investment by JTEKT. One of the key reasons we

selected this location was the collaborative effort of Richland County, the town of Blythewood, the state of South Carolina and South Carolina Electric & Gas.”

Howell said another important factor was that JTEKT/Koyo recognized the value of the existing technical knowledge of employees at the Blythewood facility.

“The question became, why build a new facility in a different location when we already have the technical expertise here,” Howell said. “There also was a lot of discussion about the potential growth in Richland County and the opportunity to recruit from a larger labor pool.”

Koyo is striving to be an employer of choice in South Carolina, according to Green. The plant expansion has increased the number of employees at the plant from about 300 to 420. The company will hire additional workers as production ramps up.

“The expansion project allowed us to add some of the amenities our employees want and prospects look for,” Green said. “We’ve added about 250,000 square feet of new office space, including new training rooms and a mezzanine office area overlooking the production floor. We have a new cafeteria and workout room as well.

EHSC Coordinator David Green

Plant Manager Bobby Howell


“We’re on a push to grow our technical capabilities,” Green continued. “We bring in a lot of people at an entry level and give them opportunities to move up. But with new business coming in, we also need engineers and technicians who already have a skill set.”

SCE&G has worked closely with engineers at the Blythewood facility to ensure the reliability of the plant’s power supply as it has grown over the past 20 years. SCE&G provided an infrastructure grant as part of the incentive package for the recent expansion project.

“We have very sophisticated machinery, obviously, so any interruption in power can put us down for hours,” Howell said. “We’ve had a very good relationship with SCE&G over the years. They’ve been very attentive to our needs.”

Plant personnel moved into the new facility and began installing equipment in May 2014. The

expansion project added 12 turning lines, where metal components are prepared for assembly, and four new assembly lines. Six turning lines and three assembly lines are now in operation.

“The main driver of the expansion was the new General Motors business,” said Howell. “While a majority of our business is with Toyota and BMW, the expansion not only gives us the ability to produce parts for GM, but we also have the opportunity for growth with the other automakers.”

The final stop on Green’s tour is the loading area where assembled hub bearing units are readied for shipping. At the end of a long trek around the plant, his visitors are beginning to lag, but Green is still going strong. He guesses he walks ten or more miles each day, every day. He knows every inch of the impressive new facility, and he deserves to be proud.

An operator unloads finished wheel hub bearing units from one of the grind and assembly machines.


Metal components are removed from the turning lines, where

they are prepared for assembly and then sent to the grind and

assembly lines.


How Sweet the Sound

History and ecology are on display at the Port Royal Sound Maritime CenterBY KEELA GLOVER | PHOTOS BY ROBERT CLARK

From the dock at the Port Royal Sound Maritime Center visitors can take a boat excursion, kayak tour or visit an oyster bed.


BY KEELA GLOVER | PHOTOS BY ROBERT CLARK

They called her “Snowball”. When she broke the surface of the waters of Port Royal Sound, her pure white skin glistened. If you were lucky, you would catch a glimpse of her pink eyes or ebony teeth. She was legendary among the fishermen and locals.


Visitors learn about the history of oystering, crabbing and shrimping in the Port Royal Sound area.

The Center’s live tank houses local species such as this puffer fish.


Snowball was a rare white dolphin that swam the waters of Port Royal Sound decades ago. Her capture led to the first legislation protecting marine animals from capture and exhibition. Her story is now told in a new exhibit at the Port Royal Sound Maritime Center near Beaufort, South Carolina.

Opened in 2014, the Maritime Center strives to connect people with the waters and lands of Port Royal Sound. Located in the former Lemon Island Marina, the $2 million center gives visitors a unique experience because it offers the intimacy of a small facility combined with exhibits typically seen in much larger museums and aquariums.

“We’re focused on the animals and the history of this area,” said Jody Hayward, director of the Port Royal Sound Foundation. “Our desire is to help people appreciate everything about Port Royal Sound. Once people learn about it, we hope that they will think more about helping to preserve its pristine waters.”

The Center’s Main Exhibit Hall features a ceiling predator diorama, a moon and tides exhibit, an underwater sounds exhibit, a 3,000-gallon aquarium, a megalodon jaw and a history wall. Exhibits change every two to three months in the rotating exhibit room.

To learn more about the lush ecosystem of the area, visitors can take part in boat excursions,

tours by kayak and oyster bed visits. There are also opportunities to learn how to throw a cast net, where and when to fish and how to dig for clams.

“Retirees and others who remember buying bait at the Lemon Island Marina will love the historical exhibits” Hayward said. “And kids will run straight to the touch tank.”

Funding for the Maritime Center was largely provided by contributions and in-kind donations, as well as local accommodation tax grants. SCE&G was a contributor, although the connection between an energy company and a maritime center might not be that obvious. But to David Tempel, SCE&G Southern District manager, it was a perfectly natural fit.

“This was an opportunity to have a maritime education center in Beaufort for the first time,” says Tempel. “As a company, it’s one of our core values to support the community. We support education. We support the environment. This center has all of that.”

“It wouldn’t have happened without the financial contributions of the individuals and companies that saw the value in having something like this here on this beautiful body of water,” said Hayward.

“Volunteers helped restore the building and many Beaufort natives supplied artifacts and other items to be displayed. It is a community effort and something that Beaufort County has needed for a long time.”

A Megladon jaw hangs above the Center’s main exhibit hall. Megladons were the biggest prehistoric shark and largest carnivorous fish that ever lived.


Energy InnovationThe future of power generation is being explored at the SCE&G Energy Innovation Center.

The test stand is three stories tall and its gear box weighs more than a Boeing 787. In the middle of the massive machinery is a lime green connection shaft taller than the average man and encircled by 72 red button-like parts, hydraulic cylinders weighing nearly 1,000 pounds each. Thick black cables snake in and out of the imposing structure.

BY KIM ASBILL | PHOTOS BY ROBERT CLARK


This is the load application unit for the 15-megawatt wind turbine test rig, which is housed inside the 82,300-square-foot SCE&G Energy Innovation Center in North Charleston, South Carolina. The center houses the world’s most advanced wind turbine drive-train testing facility capable of full-scale highly accelerated mechanical and electrical testing of advanced drive-train systems for wind turbines. Located at the former U.S. Naval Base, the facility gives wind turbine manufacturers the ability to simulate 20 years of field conditions in just a few months.

The world-class facility was made possible by a $45 million grant awarded to Clemson University in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The objectives of the project were to accelerate the development and deployment of wind turbine technology; reduce the cost of energy delivered that will result in further growth in the market leading to economic development; and support the country’s push toward cleaner energy resources.

Nikolaos Rigas helped lead the facility’s grant application as well as the building’s design and implementation. He now serves as executive director of the Clemson University Restoration Institute (CURI) and director of the drive-train testing facility.

“Because Clemson University had already built the CU ICAR facility in Greenville, we wondered why we couldn’t extend their model to the wind turbine drive train. CU ICAR is a big public/private partnership, and we knew it worked,” Rigas said.

Once the decision was made to locate in Charleston, Rigas immediately knew Clemson needed

to partner with SCE&G. Engineers from SCE&G helped write the proposal, ensuring the appropriate power needs for the facility.

“SCE&G helped us understand the impacts of the utility system. We needed to build in some buffers and filters into the system so that our facility would not impact the rest of Charleston’s system,” Rigas said.

According to Danny Kassis, SCE&G vice president of customer relations and renewables, it was a positive collaboration from the start.

“We created the partnership because we wanted the proposal to be competitive,” Kassis said. “We knew that the likelihood of a project like this coming to South Carolina would not be possible unless we all worked together. So SCE&G worked on the front end of the project and then all the way through.”

The SCE&G Energy Innovation Center was dedicated in November 2013. In addition to the wind turbine facility, the LEED Gold-certified facility is also home to the Duke Energy eGRID, a 15-megawatt grid simulator capable of testing and validating the impact of multi-megawatt devices on the electrical grid.

“The capabilities of the grid simulator are extremely important to our industry,” said Bill Turner, SCE&G vice president of electric operations. “The research being conducted at this facility will help us produce more efficient, resilient and reliable energy production, delivery and storage components.”

Curtiss Fox, a former Clemson student who first suggested the idea of a grid simulator, now serves as director of operations for the eGRID center.

During a graduate student internship at the Restoration Institute and then as a Ph.D. student, Fox developed his ideas to use the electricity generated by


The wind turbine drive-train testing facility is capable of simulating 20 years of field conditions in just months.


An engineer monitors data for the Duke

Energy eGrid at the SCE&G Energy Innovation Center.


the drive-train testing facility to create a laboratory that allows electrical equipment testing on a scale unavailable at any other facility.

“I have had a lot of interaction with SCE&G during my time here because of our unique load requirements,” Fox said. “We have a good relationship as we have set up the electrical side of things. We are testing and solving problems specific to the interconnectivity of the Southeastern system, but we also work with European companies and others from around the world.”

Right now, Fox says they are looking at utility-scale energy storage. “That includes standards testing and reliability testing as well as innovations in flow and solid battery storage. This is the biggest re-work in the energy industry, and it’s all being brought about by power electronics.”

Kassis agrees. “This technology provides a way to test resiliency and performance and helps create infrastructure models for the future of the United States. It is also a catalyst for energy-related resources, including the new graduate center.”

The 70,000-square-foot Zucker Family Graduate Education Center, scheduled to open by fall semester 2016, is located adjacent to the SCE&G Energy Innovation Center at the Clemson University Restoration Institute.

The $21.5 million facility will help train South Carolina’s engineering workforce for generations to come.

“We will offer mechanical, electrical, power systems, material science, digital production arts and other unique graduate programs to the Lowcountry community,” Rigas said. “We’ll also offer continuing education courses and workshops for engineers to maintain their professional engineering accreditation, and work to help K-12 students gain an interest in the sciences through STEM initiatives.”

Rigas says he enjoys working with the engineering interns, undergraduate and graduate students, and come up with unique solutions. “The students are so excited to be part of this. You feel like you are doing something for our future,” he said.

Kassis and Turner both see the SCE&G Energy Innovation Center and the graduate program as a benefit to SCE&G and the workforce of the future.

“We were a significant financial supporter of this project because of our interest in energy, in renewables and in the development of bringing industry-wide talent to South Carolina,” Kassis said. “We look forward to the exciting new developments that will result from this collaborative research effort.”

Nikolaos Rigas, director of the drive-train testing facility, helped design the Energy Innovation Center.

Curtiss Fox first suggested the idea of a grid simulator and now serves as director of operations for the eGrid center.


Dr. Lynne Douglass’ dedication to her

community helped to make Lake Monticello Family

Practice a reality.


Lake Monticello Family Practice delivers critically needed healthcare services.

BY ERICA KNIGHT | PHOTOS BY ROBERT CLARK

Caring for a community


Douglass is now the director of the Lake Monticello Family Practice, which opened in August 2014. Through the support of SCE&G, the Eau Claire Cooperative Health Centers and federal grants, Douglass has been able to bring critically needed health care to this rural area of South Carolina.

Douglass earned a Master of Science and Nursing from the University of South Carolina in 2002 and became a family nurse practitioner. Two years later, she took on a dual role at USC, managing the university’s women and family practice and teaching as a clinical assistant professor. She enjoyed working with the nursing students and teaching but she longed to get back to her roots.

“I’m from Fairfield County and I missed it. I wanted to do what I was doing, but in my community,” Douglass said.

In 2008, Douglass heard about Lake Monticello Family Practice, a relatively new community health facility in Blair, South Carolina. serving Winnsboro, Newberry and smaller communities in between.

“It was a small trailer that had been donated by Fairfield Memorial Hospital. It had minimal capabilities and I thought, ‘Wow, what a challenge,’” she said.

Douglass decided to dive into the project of developing the community health center while earning her Doctor of Nursing Practice through George Washington University. On her first day at the clinic she saw about eight patients, most of them walk-ins. By the end of the first year, she had set up an appointment system to make the clinic more efficient. A year later, however, the clinic lost its funding. Despite the lack of funds, she continued to see patients, working without pay.

In 2010, Eau Claire Cooperative Health Centers acquired the family practice, and discussions for a

larger, better-equipped facility began. Jenkinsville Mayor Gregrey Ginyard inquired with Jeff Archie, SCE&G’s chief nuclear officer, about the possibility of support from the company.

“He thought this was a really good opportunity for the community and I agreed,” Archie said. “The well-being of our neighbors is important.”

SCE&G donated $70,000 to the health facility, and, with an additional federal grant of $420,000, the new facility became a reality. The Fairfield County community received one of only 35 federal grants offered for health facilities in support of schools across the United States.

“The grant included the means for McCrorey-Liston School of Technology to eventually provide on-site health care services to students,” Douglass said.

The community broke ground for the new 3,000-square foot facility on Sept. 20, 2013, just one mile from SCE&G’s V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville. Part of SCE&G’s donation went toward purchasing critical equipment for the facility, including an EKG machine.

“The EKG machine has been instrumental in preventing heart attacks and strokes,” Douglass said. “We’re now able to pick up on things and provide treatment sooner.”

With an additional $20,000 donation from SCE&G in February 2015, Douglass and her staff can offer even more primary and preventive medical services to rural residents.

The primary goal of the practice is preventive care. Douglass wants to be able to offer more nutritional services to her patients and in the schools. For her, everything is about educating people about their health and how to take care of themselves.

When Lynne Douglass was working as a home health nurse

in Fairfield County during the late 1990s, she recognized the

serious need for more accessible health care in rural South

Carolina. As a home health nurse, she worked hard to diagnose

problems and get patients the care they needed. But Douglass

wanted to do more as a practitioner.


“It’s all about education and prevention,” she said. “Once they have a condition, it’s about treatment. Treatment is expensive.”

One of the ways Douglass promotes education and prevention is by working with the school nurse to treat students at McCrorey-Liston each day. Eighty students signed up for coverage through the school clinic this year.

“If a child comes to school sick or becomes sick during the day, the child can be seen right there,” said Douglass. “Then they can either go back to class or we can call the parents to take them home.”

Douglas feels that the first year of the school program was a success. The Lake Monticello Family Practice clinic staff participated in the end-of-year festival at McCrorey-Liston in May, providing screenings and information on preventative health measures. They also participated in the back-to-school open house in August to talk to parents and sign students up for coverage.

“It’s all about building trust, building a coalition to do good for the community,” Douglass said. “When people come together with the same goal, things happen.”

Through her connections at USC, Douglass has opened up the practice as a location for students at

USC and the Medical University of South Carolina to work during their required field practicum. Under her supervision, students see patients, recommend treatment and provide care.

Douglass was recently able to hire a second full-time nurse practitioner which will allow the practice to expand its services and hours at the main clinic and the school. The practitioner is a former USC student who did her field work with Douglass at the practice.

As the practice continues to grow, SCE&G continues to support the Lake Monticello Family Practice. Over the past few years there have been opportunities for Archie to meet with Douglass and her team to get feedback on things they need help with.

“We’re always open to new opportunities to provide resources where we can,” Archie said. “One of our core values is to be engaged with the community and support them in their efforts.”

Douglass feels there is a close relationship between the practice and SCE&G, “I appreciate all that SCE&G does. They are a pillar in the community job-wise and for taking care of the community.”

Nurse Practitioner Emmeline Short advises a patient in one of

the practice’s four exam rooms.


Doing Our Homework

Homework Centers program celebrates a quarter century of helping students

BY GINNY JONES | PHOTOS BY ROBERT CLARK

A few minutes into my interview with Amir, his teacher interrupts. Vivian Hernandez, an energetic, veteran teacher with a welcoming smile, would like to interview Amir instead.

Amir is a rising fourth-grade student at Carver-Lyon Elementary School in Columbia, and he’s been politely answering my questions about his experience in the school’s homework center. But it’s mid-August and, typical of a fourth grader, Amir is having a hard time remembering what he did several months ago.

As Hernandez takes my chair, Amir relaxes and smiles.

Amir and Hernandez talk animatedly about what they did together last school year – a museum trip, a project in which students worked together in small groups to build a model car and the celebrations they shared throughout the year as Amir met new objectives in the center’s computer-based learning program. Without question, Amir is excited and ready for the new school year to begin.

To see Ms. Hernandez with her students is to witness the magic of teaching. Under her leadership, the homework center at Carver-Lyon has flourished. It is one of 16 such programs at elementary schools across South Carolina.

“About five years ago, my former principal asked me if I would come in and speak to someone from SCE&G,” Hernandez said. “She told me, ‘I have the perfect after-school program for you. We need someone to reach the children who need challenging work, who have a higher thinking level.’”

Hernandez said yes, and she hasn’t looked back.Carver-Lyon students arrive at the homework

center at 2:30 p.m. and begin with a snack. After that, they break up into two groups. While some children work on their homework, others work on the computer-based learning program. If they’re having trouble, Hernandez helps them work through the problem.

“We push, just keep pushing the envelope, just get them better and better prepared,” Hernandez said. “And we are very proud of them. With most of the students, I would say 99 percent score above grade level, and that is just amazing.”

Hernandez said she strives to develop well-rounded students by including cultural experiences, healthy habits and exposure to future career ideas.

“I want them to be teachers and scientists and lawyers. I want them to have dreams and aspirations, and I want to be a part of that,” Hernandez said. “I want to encourage them to be college bound, because they have so much to give and so much to receive. I want to prepare them to be lifelong learners and productive citizens, not only in our community, but also in Columbia and South Carolina. And most of all, in the United States.”

His mother, Tijwana Mclone, said the program has taught Amir to challenge himself and practice good habits.

“He strives to go higher and higher. He wants to beat his previous scores,” Mclone said. “Even if he doesn’t have the homework center that day, he’ll come


Students in the Homework Center at

Carver-Lyon Elementary School search for

information for an assignment.


Veteran teacher Vivian Hernandez inspires her Homework Center students to achieve their academic goals and to become lifelong learners.


home and do his homework. It’s like he can’t get out of the homework center atmosphere; he does everything that they usually do.”

Other parents overwhelmingly share Mclone’s positive view of the homework centers. Earlier this year, 99 percent of parents surveyed said their children had completed more work after school, and were doing better academically, since they had started attending the homework centers.

SCE&G started the Homework Centers program in 1991 to provide a safe, structured and fun learning environment to strengthen students’ academic skills and build their confidence. Title I-qualified elementary schools, which have high percentages of children from low-income families, may be considered for the Homework Centers program.

The Homework Centers program began as a partnership between a now-closed non-profit organization called People for People and several South Carolina businesses. It has changed over time, perhaps most significantly in 2011, when the South Carolina State Chamber of Commerce assumed administrative responsibilities for the program. SCE&G continues to fund the program, providing two certified teachers, snacks, supplies and activities at each school. The program is offered at no charge to participating students.

Stephanie Jones, supervisor of corporate philanthropy, said SCE&G has continued to support the Homework Centers

Program for a simple reason – the measurable difference in student performance.

During the 2014-15 school year, 80 percent of homework-center students showed improved standardized test reading scores, while 87 percent showed improved math scores. When first-quarter report cards were compared with third-quarter report cards, 54 percent of students showed increased English/Language Arts grades, while 48 percent showed improved math grades.

“Year after year, we see that this program helps students improve their grades and test scores,” Jones said. “This is our 25th school year as the sponsor of the Homework Centers program, and we continue to believe in the value of this investment for the future of the communities we serve.”

Over the years, the Homework Centers program has received several local, regional and national awards, including the National School and Business Partnership Award and the State Board of Education Business Partner Award.

This fall, as the participating elementary schools hold their annual kickoff events, there will be a special focus on the impact the program has had on local schools and communities for the past 25 years.

Students consistently show improved standardized test reading and math scores.


PROGRESS REPORTConstruction of SCE&G’s two new nuclear

plants reaches important milestones.

On July 23, 2015, one of the world’s largest cranes, a heavy lift derrick that stands approximately 550 feet tall, was used to lift the 2.4 million pound CA01 module. The module is a multi-compartment steel structure within the Unit 2 containment vessel that will house a number of major components, including two steam generators.


SCE&G and its partners achieved several significant milestones in the construction of the two new AP1000 nuclear units at V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, South Carolina.

On June 29, crews placed the CA04 module on the containment vessel bottom head. CA04 is the reactor vessel cavity that will house the Unit 3 reactor vessel and related components. Standing approximately 27 feet tall and 21 feet wide, CA04 is considered a super module because it’s too large to transport fully assembled. Sub-modules were fabricated at SMCI in Lakeland, Florida, and welders then completed final fabrication at the V.C. Summer construction site in the 12-story Module Assembly Building. Once the module is fully encased in concrete, the reactor vessel will be lowered into it and mounted on top.

On July 23, the 2.4 million pound CA01 module, which will house a number of major components for Unit 2, was put in place. The CA01 module is a multi-compartment steel structure within the Unit 2 containment vessel. The module is approximately 90 feet long, 95 feet wide and 80 feet tall. Also considered a super module, CA01 was assembled in the Module Assembly Building. This is the first Westinghouse AP100 module of its kind to be placed in the United States.

A few days before the placement of CA01, the first six-panel course of nearly 170 shield building panels was put in place. Weighing 30,000 pounds and spanning 40 feet long, each panel will be welded together, then concrete will be placed inside the panels to create the shield building. When complete, this reinforced concrete structure will surround the containment vessel for an added layer of safety.

“Successful placement of these major modules demonstrates the progress being made with our new nuclear units,” said Kevin Marsh, SCANA chairman and CEO. “Adding more nuclear energy to our generation mix is the best solution for providing South Carolina with large-scale energy that is clean, safe and reliable, as well as cost effective, over the long term.”

Approximately 3,500 CB&I and Westinghouse personnel and subcontractors are employed on the construction site in Fairfield County. The two 1,117-megawatt units will add approximately 800 permanent jobs when operations. Once the two units are complete, SCE&G anticipates its generation mix will be about 30 percent nuclear, 30 percent natural gas and 30 percent scrubbed coal, with the balance in hydro, solar and biomass.

The CA20 module is moved from the 13-story Module Assembly prior to placement on May 9, 2014. CA20 is part of the auxiliary building that is located outside and adjacent to the containment vessel. The 70-foot-tall, 70-foot-long and 50-foot-wide module will house fuel handling and storage areas as well as other important plant systems.

CA04 was placed on the Unit 3 containment vessel bottom head on June 29, 2015. The module is the reactor vessel cavity that will house the Unit 3 reactor vessel and related components. Once CA04 is fully encased in concrete, the reactor vessel will be lowered into it and mounted on top.

The Unit 3 reactor vessel arrived at the Port of Charleston in June. The reactor vessel was then transported to the V.C. Summer construction site June 28, 2015 on a Schnabel specialty railcar, which is designed to carry heavy loads. Weighing approximately 608,500 pounds, the reactor vessel is almost 34 feet tall and 15 feet wide.


Paying it forwardSCANA’s family of businesses and their employees contribute financial resources and countless hours of volunteer time to a wide variety of causes. Here are recent highlights.

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CAMP LEOPOLD FUNDING

As part of the largest expansion project in Riverbanks Zoo’s 40-year history, SCE&G donated

where approximately

will come through annually.

Funding allows students in 3rd – 7th grade to take field trips to Camp Leopold

and participate in camp activities designed to help them achieve academic standards in science, reading and math through hands-on lessons focusing on wildlife, wetland and upland ecology.

helped build the SCE&G Playground at One80 Place.

One80 Place provides food, shelter and critical supportive services to help homeless individuals, veterans and families turn their lives around.

20 EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERSA donation of $31K and

are sheltered annually

146CHILDREN

EdVenture provides accessibility to educational programming for underserved children and families through targeted community outreach and reduced museum admission.

$10K

$30K

Corporate Sponsorship to support the Yes, Every Child initiative.

1 MILLION VISITORS

SCE&G also donated $25,000 to match a Palmetto Clean Energy grant for solar panels

to go on the new Guest Services Building.

to build the new SCE&G Guest Services Building $225K


A resident of the 3,000-gallon aquarium at the Port Royal Sound Maritime Center poses for the camera.

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