Energy transition reporter
Robert Zullo is a national energy reporter based in southern Illinois focusing on renewable power and the electric grid. Robert joined States Newsroom in 2018 as the founding editor of the Virginia Mercury. Before that, he spent 13 years as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Louisiana. He has a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. He grew up in Miami, Fla., and central New Jersey.
According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the state has 22 power plants of various sizes that burn fossil fuels.
PJM, the grid operator for Maryland, a dozen other states and the District of Columbia, gets a D-minus.
Lawmakers across the U.S., including in Md., seek to curb utility spending on politics, ads and more
‘These efforts and organizations often slow or prevent progress towards our clean energy goals,’ Del. Lorig Charkoudian (D-Montgomery) said in an email this week to her constituents.
Delegate’s bill on PJM has company this year — in the state Senate and in four other states.
Maryland is seen as a test case for how things can go awry — and consumers could wind up footing a very substantial bill.
Electric reliability has been a hot topic lately — from congressional hearings to regulatory agencies and at the regional transmission organizations that run the…
Nearly a year ago, a Christmas weekend storm blasted across the country, forcing utilities to cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of people in…
How does Danish company’s decision to abandon New Jersey impact its major project off the coast of Ocean City — and Maryland’s fledgling wind energy industry?
Scrutiny on utility charges for transmission construction comes as state lawmakers from around the country, led by a Md. legislator, press federal regulators to allow more renewable energy onto the grid.
One expert calls the developments, which could boost renewable energy projects in Maryland, ‘the greatest transmission reforms in a generation.’