Electric South > South Carolina

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita

Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes

Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines

19th Resources
21st Market
29th Infrastructure

South Carolina has no fossil fuel reserves or production. There are no petroleum refineries in the state, either, and all petroleum products arrive from out of state via pipelines from the Gulf and through the Port of Charleston.

Natural gas consumption in South Carolina's electric power sector more than doubled between 2008 and 2012 as natural gas prices fell.

state-south-carolina

Production trillion btu

0
Oil
0
Gas
0
Coal
0
Wind
0.00
Solar
5
Hydro
0
Biofuel
536
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-1,152
+541 Produced
1,693 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

475
Oil
251
Gas
299
Coal
132
Renewable
536
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

SC
$0.35
USA
$0.46

Key Policies

  • Does not have a renewable portfolio standard, but promotes the use of renewable energies and sustainable development practices throughout the state.

  • Allows the statewide use of conventional motor gasoline, one of the few states to do so.

Electricity net production, trillion btu

+121
7.31¢
SC
8.81¢
USA