SUBSEQUENT EVENT (Notes)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

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5.          SUBSEQUENT EVENT

On January 2, 2018, SCANA, Sedona Corp. and Dominion Energy entered into the Merger Agreement pursuant to which Sedona Corp. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dominion Energy) agreed to merge into SCANA in a stock-for-stock transaction in which SCANA shareholders would receive 0.6690 of a share of Dominion Energy common stock for each share of SCANA common stock. The completion of the merger is subject to a variety of closing conditions, including the receipt of approvals from SCANA's shareholders and is also subject to consents and approvals or findings from governmental entities, which may impose conditions that could have an adverse effect on the Company or Consolidated SCE&G or could cause either SCANA or Dominion Energy to abandon the merger. The completion of the merger is also subject to an absence of substantive changes in certain South Carolina laws, including the BLRA, that would reasonably be expected to have an adverse effect on SCANA or its subsidiaries, or if any governmental entity enacts any order or there is any change in law which imposes any material change to the terms, conditions or undertakings set forth in the Joint Petition or any significant changes to the economic value of the Joint Petition. See also Note 10.

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5.          SUBSEQUENT EVENT

On January 2, 2018, SCANA, Sedona Corp. and Dominion Energy entered into the Merger Agreement pursuant to which Sedona Corp. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dominion Energy) agreed to merge into SCANA in a stock-for-stock transaction in which SCANA shareholders would receive 0.6690 of a share of Dominion Energy common stock for each share of SCANA common stock. The completion of the merger is subject to a variety of closing conditions, including the receipt of approvals from SCANA's shareholders and is also subject to consents and approvals or findings from governmental entities, which may impose conditions that could have an adverse effect on the Company or Consolidated SCE&G or could cause either SCANA or Dominion Energy to abandon the merger. The completion of the merger is also subject to an absence of substantive changes in certain South Carolina laws, including the BLRA, that would reasonably be expected to have an adverse effect on SCANA or its subsidiaries, or if any governmental entity enacts any order or there is any change in law which imposes any material change to the terms, conditions or undertakings set forth in the Joint Petition or any significant changes to the economic value of the Joint Petition. See also Note 10.