Dominion Energy South Carolina — electricity and natural gas

Residential start-service phone 800-251-7234, Mon–Fri 7:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. ET. Start online at dominionenergy.com/south-carolina/start-stop-service/start-service. TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT you supply the full service address, Social Security number(s), and driver's licence number. Dominion states: "Your Social Security number is used to determine if a deposit is required and does not impact your credit score." DEPOSIT: required "if you are a new customer or an existing customer that does not have a satisfactory payment history within the last 12 months." Dominion publishes no flat residential deposit figure — the amount is set per account, so no figure is estimated here. Enrolling in Dominion's PrePay (pay-in-advance) programme is published as a way some customers avoid the deposit. Deposit refund: "eligible to get your deposit returned to you after two years unless you have had two (2) consecutive 30-day arrears in the past twenty-four (24) months or more than two (2) non-consecutive 30-day arrears." NATURAL GAS: same company, same account and phone. Gas is not on every Mount Pleasant street — Dominion publishes a gas-availability lookup on its site; check the address before assuming a gas appliance can be connected. Dominion did not publish a specific lead time for turn-on, so call ahead of the closing date rather than the day of.