CHARLESTON — South Carolina's energy crunch — and efforts to ease it — will be front and center when Santee Cooper meets on Oct. 24.

The board of the state-owned utility on Friday will review several big-ticket transactions that would deliver more power to the straining electric grid if approved.

The most anticipated among them is an update about Santee Cooper's efforts to solicit private investors willing to acquire and complete the unfinished reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station.

CEO Jimmy Staton is scheduled to ask the board to approve a resolution about the completion of the two mothballed units in rural Fairfield County. No details have been disclosed, but a buyer or group of buyers could be identified during the presentation.

Earlier this week, Staton gave an update to sta

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