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Integrated Resource Plan
Participate in Santee Cooper's 2023 IRP process
Join the Discussion! Santee Cooper is continuing its process to develop a triennial integrated resource plan. An integrated resource plan is intended to represent the most reasonable and prudent means of meeting Santee Cooper energy and capacity needs as of the time the plan is prepared. We need input from as many stakeholders as possible. We want you to be involved in developing this plan, which will include a diverse portfolio with significantly more renewables and clean-energy resources. Join us for our next meeting to be announced in 2023.
Continue on this page for information from past meetings, links to studies used in developing the IRP, and a link to our input and feedback forum.
About IRP
An integrated resource plan (IRP) is a public planning process to establish a roadmap for how an electric utility meets the projected load of its customers, in a cost-effective and reliable manner. An IRP balances multiple objectives including system reliability, environmental responsibility, cost impacts and risks.
Resource Planning Principles
Santee Cooper has adopted the following resource planning principles:
- Reliability: Operate and plan the Santee Cooper system to ensure that all retail and wholesale customers are provided reliable electric power — reliability is the number one product of any electric utility
- Customer Focus: Provide safe, reliable, and affordable power, and provide customers with new opportunities as markets change
- Cost Management: Develop resource plans that provide effective cost management over the long-term
- Environmental Stewardship: Responsibly manage the environmental impact of Santee Cooper operations
- Long-Term View: Develop a long-term resource strategy to ensure flexibility and optionality over a wide range of possible future conditions
- Reduce Financial and Planning Risk: Develop resource plans that readily adapt as future conditions change and, when possible, add resources in increments that closely match resources to needs
- Embrace Innovation: Identify potential developing technologies and incorporate in resource plans when reasonable and cost-effective
- Transparency: Engage customers, stakeholders, Board Members, and elected officials in a transparent resource planning process that is responsive to questions and input
Meeting Presentations & Materials
IRP Reports and Materials
Santee Cooper Reserve Margin & ELCC Study Report
Santee Cooper 2022 EE MPS Residential Commercial Measures
Santee Cooper Solar Integration Study Report
Santee Cooper 2022 EE MPS Report
Stakeholder Input and Feedback Forum
To improve our ability to receive and publicly respond to stakeholder input and feedback, Santee Cooper has transitioned to an online forum. This allows you to add to the conversation and also view input and feedback that others have provided.
Click here to join the conversation regarding our IRP!
Upcoming Stakeholder Meetings
To be announced.