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The Base Load Review Act allows utilities to charge customers for those projects.

“The PSC is going to decide if South Carolina Electric and Gas is going to pay for up to $5 billion or if that’s going to be on the backs of the ratepayers,” Friends of the Earth Senior Adviser Tom Clements, who has tracked the project since its inception, told NewsChannel 6’s Shawn Cabbagestalk.

According to the Base Load Review Act, once the state’s Public Service Commission approves the project, the utility can request an increase each year.

Now a judge is expecting to overturn the law calling it unconstitutional.

Starting Thursday, November 1, the Public Service Commission will hear arguments over who should pay for financing charges billed to customers for the VC Summer Nuclear Project – a project that never generated power.

“We are on the side of the ratepayer and we want the company to pay for the big mistake in pursuing that project,” Clements added.

If ruled unconstitutional, billions in refunds could be headed to your wallets. SCE&G is on the hook for some of the unfinished reactors at VC Summer.

“The evidence, in this case, is irrefutable that SCE&G hid key information as the project unraveled and did not act prudently from the start,” Clements said.

The project accounted for nearly a fifth of customers’ power bills.

“They were charging customers 18% of their bill to pay for the project even though it was terminated. The South Carolina legislature, with PSC approval, reduced that amount on the monthly bill to three-point-two percent and we want it reduced down to zero,” Clements said.

SCE&G and their partner Santee Cooper canceled the twin-reactor V.C. Summer project on July 31, 2017.

The hearing is expected to last three weeks.

You can watch it, here: https://www.psc.sc.gov/about-us-0/livestream-schedule