



                                                   Registration No.


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             Washington, D.C. 20549


                                    Form S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                      Under

                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                                SCANA Corporation
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             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


                                 South Carolina
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         (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

                                   57-0784499
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                     (I.R.S. employer identification number)


                1426 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201
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               (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)


              SCANA Corporation Long-Term Equity Compensation Plan
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                            (Full title of the plan)

                                H. Thomas Arthur
         Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
                                SCANA Corporation
                1426 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201
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                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (803) 217-8547
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          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                                    Copy To:

                               Elizabeth B. Anders
                              McNair Law Firm, P.A.
                               1301 Gervais Street
                                  17th Floor
                              Columbia, SC 29201
                                (803) 799-9800


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                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                                     Proposed          Proposed
                                      maximum           maximum
   Title of          Amount          offering         aggregate      Amount of
 securities to       to be            price            offering    registration
 be registered    registered (1)    per share (2)      price (2)      fee (2)

Common Stock
no par value     5,000,000 shares      $26.00        $130,000,000    $34,320


    (1) Together with an indeterminable number of additional shares which may be
        necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance  pursuant
        to such plan as the result of any future stock split,  stock dividend or
        similar adjustment of the registrant's common stock.

    (2) Estimated  pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the  Securities Act of 1933, as
        amended,  solely for the purpose of  calculating  the  registration  fee
        based on the average of the high and low prices for the Common  Stock of
        SCANA  Corporation  (the  "Company")  as  reported on the New York Stock
        Exchange, Inc. Composite Transactions Reporting System on May 17, 2000.


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                                     Part II

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference

     This Registration  Statement on Form S-8 hereby  incorporates the following
documents which are not presented herein:

           1) Annual  Report  of the  Company  on Form  10-K for the year  ended
           December 31, 1999, as amended;  2) Quarterly  Report on Form 10-Q for
           the quarter ended March 31, 2000; and 3) The  Registration  Statement
           for Common Stock of the Company under the Exchange Act on Form 8-B
                   dated  November 7, 1984, as amended May 26, 1995.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934,  prior to the filing
of a post-effective  amendment which indicates that all securities  offered have
been sold or which  deregisters all securities then remaining  unsold,  shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration  Statement and to be
a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained
in a document  incorporated  or deemed to be  incorporated  by reference  herein
shall be deemed to be modified or superseded  for purposes of this  Registration
Statement  to the  extent  that a  statement  contained  herein  or in any other
subsequently  filed  document  that also is or is deemed to be  incorporated  by
reference  herein modifies or supersedes  such statement.  Any such statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.   Description of Securities.
               Not Applicable

Item 5.           Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

    At April 30, 2000, H. Thomas Arthur,  Esquire, who is Senior Vice President,
General  Counsel  and  Assistant  Secretary,  and a  full-time  employee  of the
Company,  owned  beneficially  12,124  shares  of the  Company's  Common  Stock,
including  shares  acquired by the trustee  under the Company's  Stock  Purchase
Savings Plan by use of  contributions  made by Mr. Arthur and earnings  thereon,
and including  shares  purchased by the trustee by use of Company  contributions
and earnings thereon.




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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

   The South  Carolina  Business  Corporation  Act of 1988 and the  Registrant's
By-Laws provide for  indemnification of the Registrant's  directors and officers
in a variety of circumstances, which may include indemnification for liabilities
under the  Securities  Act of 1933,  as amended (the  "Securities  Act").  Under
Sections  33-8-510,  33-8-550  and  33-8-560  of  the  South  Carolina  Business
Corporation Act of 1988, as amended, a South Carolina  corporation is authorized
generally to indemnify its  directors and officers in civil or criminal  actions
if they acted in good faith and  reasonably  believed their conduct to be in the
best interests of the corporation and, in the case of criminal  actions,  had no
reasonable  cause to believe  that the conduct was  unlawful.  The  Registrant's
By-Laws  require  indemnification  of  directors  and  officers  with respect to
expenses  actually  and  necessarily  incurred  by them in  connection  with the
defense or settlement  of any action,  suit or proceeding in which they are made
parties by reason of having been a director  or  officer,  except in relation to
matters as to which they shall be adjudged  to be liable for willful  misconduct
in the  performance of duty and to such matters as shall be settled by agreement
predicated on the existence of such liability. The Long Term Equity Compensation
Plan (the "Plan") also provides for the  registrant  to indemnify  directors and
committee  members in connection  with actions taken or failure to act under the
Plan and amounts paid in settlement  thereof or in satisfaction of any judgement
thereon.  In addition,  the Registrant carries insurance on behalf of directors,
officers,  employees or agents that may cover  liabilities  under the Securities
Act.  Finally,  as permitted by Section 33-2-102 of the South Carolina  Business
Corporation Act of 1988, the  Registrant's  Restated  Articles of  Incorporation
provide  that no director  of the Company  shall be liable to the Company or its
shareholders for monetary damages for breach of his fiduciary duty as a director
occurring after April 26, 1989, except for (i) any breach of the director's duty
of loyalty to the Registrant or its shareholders,  (ii) acts or omissions not in
good  faith or which  involve  gross  negligence,  intentional  misconduct  or a
knowing  violation of law,  (iii)  certain  unlawful  distributions  or (iv) any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
    Not Applicable

Item 8. Exhibits

   Exhibits required to be filed with this Registration  Statement are listed in
the Exhibit Index following the signature pages.  Certain of such exhibits which
have heretofore been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and which
are designated by reference to their exhibit numbers in prior filings are hereby
incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.

Item 9. Undertakings

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1) To file,  during any period in which  offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

           (A) To include any  prospectus  required by Section  10(a) (3) of the
Securities Act of 1933;

           (B) To reflect in the  prospectus  any facts or events  arising after
the  effective  date  of  the   Registration   Statement  (or  the  most  recent
post-effective  amendment  thereof)  which,  individually  or in the  aggregate,
represent a fundamental  change in the information set forth in the Registration
Statement; and

           (C) To include any material  information  with respect to the plan of
distribution  not  previously  disclosed  in the  Registration  Statement or any
material change to such information in the Registration Statement;

PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  that  clauses  (1)(A)  and  (1)(B)  do  not  apply  if  the
Registration  Statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3 and the information
required  to be  included  in a  post-effective  amendment  by those  clauses is
contained in periodic  reports filed with or furnished to the  Commission by the
Registrant  pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15 (d) of the Securities  Exchange
Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
Act of 1933,  each  such  post-effective  amendment  shall be deemed to be a new
registration  statement  relating to the  securities  offered  therein,  and the
offering of such  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

     (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective  amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.



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     (4) That,  for purposes of determining  any liability  under the Securities
Act of 1933, each filing of the  Registrant's  annual report pursuant to Section
13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934 (and,  where  applicable,
each filing of an employee  benefit  plan's  annual  report  pursuant to Section
15(d) of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference
in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein,  and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,  officers and controlling  persons of
the  Registrant  pursuant  to  the  foregoing  provisions,   or  otherwise,  the
Registrant  has been advised that in the opinion of the  Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore,  unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such  liabilities  (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director,  officer or controlling person of the Registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director,  officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been  settled by  controlling  precedent,  submit to a court of  appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such  indemnification  by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.



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                                   SIGNATURES

         The Registrant.  Pursuant to the  requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the  requirements  for filing on Form S-8 and has duly  caused this
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,  thereunto
duly authorized,  in the City of Columbia, State of South Carolina, on this 19th
day of May 2000.

(REGISTRANT)               SCANA Corporation



By:                        s/W. B. Timmerman
(Name & Title):            W. B. Timmerman, Chairman of the Board,
                           Chief Executive Officer, President and Director

  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this  registration
statement has been signed by the following  persons in the capacities and on the
date indicated.

  (i) Principal executive officer:


By:                        s/W. B. Timmerman
(Name & Title):            W. B. Timmerman, Chairman of the Board,
                           Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Date:                      May  19, 2000

 (ii) Principal financial officer:


By:                        s/K. B. Marsh
(Name & Title):            K. B. Marsh, Senior Vice President -Finance and
                           Chief Financial Officer
Date:                      May  19, 2000

(iii) Other Directors:

     * B. L. Amick, J. A. Bennett, W. B. Bookhart,  Jr., W. C. Burkhardt;  H. M.
Chapman, E. T. Freeman, L. M. Gressette, Jr., D. M. Hagood, W. Hayne Hipp, L. M.
Miller, J. L. Skolds, M. K. Sloan, H. L. Stowe; G. S. York; C. E. Zeigler, Jr.

* Signed on behalf of each of these persons:


    s/K. B. Marsh
    K. B. Marsh
    (Attorney-in-Fact)



Directors who did not sign:

     J. L. Skolds






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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit        Description
No.
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4.01           Restated Articles of Incorporation of SCANA as adopted on April
               26, 1989 (Filed as Exhibit 3-A to Registration Statement  No.
               33-49145)

4.02           Articles of Amendment of SCANA, dated April 27, 1995 (Filed as
               Exhibit 4-B to Registration Statement No. 33-62421)

4.03           By-Laws of  SCANA as revised and amended through  February 22,
               2000 (Filed as Exhibit 3.19 to Form 10-K for the year ended
               December 31, 1999)

4.04           SCANA Corporation Long-Term Equity Compensation Plan
               (Filed herewith on page 8)

5.01           Opinion Re Legality (Filed herewith on page 26)

15.01          Letter re unaudited interim financial information
               Not Applicable

23.01          Consents of  Independent Auditors' and Counsel

               (a) Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Filed  herewith on page 27)
               (b)  Consent of H.  Thomas  Arthur  (Included  in his  opinion in
               Exhibit 5.01)

24.01          Power of Attorney (Filed herewith on page 28)

99.01          Additional Exhibits
               Not Applicable



