The EmPOWER program may be retooled through legislation under consideration this General Assembly session.
By Michael Middleton and Dr. Sacoby Wilson The writers are, respectively, executive director of the SB7 Coalition in South Baltimore and the director of…
By Wandra Ashley-Williams The writer is Maryland regional director for Climate XChange, a national organization promoting climate action at the state level. House Bill…
Moore and other officials characterized the $90 million investment as ‘a downpayment’ toward fulfilling the state’s ambitious climate goals — but no one knows where the rest of the money will come from.
No business operating in a competitive environment would risk spending vast sums on long-term infrastructure to deliver an undetermined ‘something different.’
Bill decrees that when monopoly utilities spend money on activities completely unrelated to the delivery of energy services, that money comes from their profits, not their customer’s wallets.
The governor who signed the electricity deregulation bill in 1999 supports the measure in the General Assembly to modify the law.
Delegate’s bill on PJM has company this year — in the state Senate and in four other states.
The legislation would provide more favorable clean energy credits to USWind and envisions directing state regulators to open more lease space to other potential bidders.
Maryland is seen as a test case for how things can go awry — and consumers could wind up footing a very substantial bill.