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Lumos

December 8, 2023

Lumos provides 100% Fiber Optic Internet, whole-Home Wi-Fi, voice, and streaming services, to more than 275,000 homes and businesses across its North Carolina, Virginia and, recently announced, South Carolina footprint. We believe that the possibilities of tomorrow cannot be built on the infrastructure of yesterday. That’s why we’re building a 100% Fiber Optic network from […]

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Laurens Electric Cooperative

March 5, 2023

Laurens Electric is a member-owned rural electric cooperative in Upstate South Carolina. Founded in 1939, the co-op provides service to more than 43,000 residential, commercial and industrial consumers in Laurens, Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Abbeville, Newberry, and Union counties. Contact: David Wasson President & CEO P.O. Box 700 Laurens, SC 29360 Phone: (864) 683-1638 Email: [email protected] […]

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Laurens County Water and Sewer Commission (LCWSC)

March 5, 2023

Laurens County Water and Sewer Commission (LCWSC) is a Special Purpose District providing water and sewer service to unincorporated areas of Laurens County and portions of southern Greenville County. LCWSC provides a sustainable supply of safe quality drinking water and provides environmentally sound wastewater and collection sewer services throughout Laurens County at the best possible […]

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Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, Inc.

March 5, 2023

Who we are: Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a member-owned, not-for-profit distribution utility that serves more than 69,000+ members in the Upstate of South Carolina. Headquartered in Pickens, SC, the cooperative supplies electric power to portions of Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, and Spartanburg counties. In addition to the Pickens location, Blue Ridge has another […]

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Broad River Electric Co-Op

March 5, 2023

Broad River Electric Cooperative is one of 20 member-owned electric co-ops in South Carolina. From our headquarters in Gaffney, SC, we serve Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union, and Newberry counties in South Carolina and portions of Cleveland, Polk, and Rutherford counties in North Carolina. Founded in 1940 to meet the needs of a small number of rural […]

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Santee Cooper

March 5, 2023

Santee Cooper is South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility and serves 143,000 residential and commercial customers in Berkeley, Georgetown and Horry counties. The utility also generates the power distributed by the state’s 20 electric cooperatives to more than 640,000 customers in all 46 counties. All total, more than 1.9 million South Carolinians receive their […]

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Greenville Water

March 5, 2023

The American Pipe Manufacturing Company from Philadelphia was persuaded in 1889 to build a water system to serve the town of Greenville with a population of 8,600. This company was later known as the Paris Mountain Water Company, a corporation that secured its charter in South Carolina, and the system operated under that name until […]

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Piedmont Natural Gas

March 5, 2023

About Piedmont Natural Gas Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE: PNY) is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to one million residential, commercial, and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 62,000 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsiduaries are invested in joint venture, […]

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Spartanburg Water & Sewer System

March 5, 2023

Spartanburg Water is actually two entities operating under one name. We are Spartanburg Water System (a political subdivision of the city of Spartanburg, overseen by The Commission of Public Works of the City of Spartanburg, South Carolina) and Spartanburg Sanitary Sewer District (a special purpose district established by the state of South Carolina and overseen […]

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Duke Energy

March 5, 2023

Duke Energy Corporation is an energy company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. Its Regulated Utilities business unit serves 7.3 million retail electric customers in six states in the Southeast and Midwest regions of the United States, representing a population of approximately 23 million people. Duke Energy is a Fortune 250 company traded on the New York […]

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