South Carolina Electric & Gas said Wednesday it has pushed back by at least six months the estimated online date for V.C. Summer Unit 2, the first of two planned 1,100-MW nuclear units there, because of contractor delays in fabricating and delivering key elements of the $10 billion-plus project.
SCE&G, a subsidiary of Scana Corp., said it now expects the first new unit to begin commercial operation in either the fourth quarter of 2017 or first quarter of 2018. Most recently, Unit 2 had been expected to come online in March 2017; the original schedule called for it to start up in April 2016.