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This time, Constellation takeover will go through
Sometime around May 2012, you will open your BGE statement and react with mild pleasure, perhaps, on seeing that your bill is reduced by $200 or so.
True, this might be considered a long shot. History has held out such rebates before and then yanked them...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Executive Branch, Mayo A. Shattuck III, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Oregon
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Exxon fined $4 million for gas leak
In what officials say is the largest environmental penalty ever levied by the state, ExxonMobil Corp. has agreed to pay $4 million to the Maryland Department of the Environment for a 26,000-gallon gasoline spill at a Baltimore County service station...Tags: Employees, Maryland, Crime, Law and Justice, Baltimore County, Environmental Cleanup
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PSC may prohibit utilities from charging fee during first 24-hours after major storm
The Maryland Public Service Commission may prohibit the state's utility companies from charging customers a small service fee during the first day of a major power outage. "It's like pouring salt in their wounds. … It may be 50 cents, but in a...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Electricity Production and Distribution
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Utilities defend 'smart meters' before Public Service Commission
Four major electricity providers defended the safety of "smart meters" Tuesday at a hearing called by the Maryland Public Service Commission after commissioners read reports of similar meters overheating and catching fire in Southeastern Pennsylvania....
Tags: Peco Energy Company, Civil and Public Service, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Consumers
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Md. panel to hold public hearings on power outages
The Maryland Public Service Commission will conduct public hearings on the widespread power outages the state suffered during a storm. The legislative-style hearings will review utilities’ outage event reports. They are set for Sept. 13 and, if...Tags: Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., William Donald Schaefer
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Utility customers can defer smart meters
The Maryland Public Service Commission has ruled that utility customers can defer installation of so-called smart meters until the panel issues a permanent order on whether customers can opt out of the meters entirely. The commission’s order,... -
New power plant to be built in Waldorf
Maryland energy regulators Thursday ordered the construction of the state's first new natural gas power plant since the state's electric power market was deregulated more than a decade ago. In a decision questioned by other power producers, the...Tags: Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Natural Resources, Energy Resources, Politics, Plant Openings
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Tornadoes kill 2 in Maryland
Sun StaffA tornado blazed a 10-mile-long path of destruction through Central Maryland at rush hour yesterday afternoon, killing two Howard County sisters and injuring dozens of people while ripping the roofs off buildings and flinging cars through the air. The...Tags: Fires, Disasters and Accidents, National Security, Football, Culture
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Damage-control steps ordered in wake of Isabel
Sun StaffIn the wake of widespread power outages last fall from Tropical Storm Isabel, the Maryland Public Service Commission has ordered the state's utilities to take preventive steps aimed at reducing damage from storms and to improve communication with both...Tags: Office Equipment and Supplies, FEMA, Kentucky, Maryland, Science and Technology
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In Maryland, most lights stay on
Sun StaffFor customers in Maryland and neighboring areas, the system worked. The most widespread blackout in the nation's history, which darkened parts of the Northeast and Midwest as well as Canada last evening, didn't spread much farther south thanks to circuit...Tags: Delaware, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Cleveland, Washington, DC
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PSC chief fires 5 top members of agency staff
Sun StaffThe head of the commission that oversees power deregulation in Maryland has abruptly fired five top staff members as the Ehrlich administration continues to put its imprint on a key regulatory agency after decades of Democratic control. The firings...Tags: Engineering, Consumer Issue, Executive Branch, Litigation and Regulation, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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Governor seeks rewriting of energy bill
Sun StaffThe Ehrlich administration called yesterday for a radical rewriting of a bill sponsored by House Speaker Michael E. Busch that would encourage greater use of "clean" energy sources, contending that it could raise rates in its current form. Michael T....Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Laws, Alternative Energy, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Maryland
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