Article Responding To:
Baltimore Gas and Electric is asking state regulators to approve a nearly $1.1 billion, 59-mile transmission line running through Baltimore, Howard and Harford counties — a project BGE says is urgently needed after Maryland’s power grid failed a stress test just last weekend, leaving thousands of people without electricity during a holiday heat wave.
📸: Karl Merton Ferron, The Baltimore Sun
Response:
Over the past 25 years in the Country and in the State of Maryland we have seen “the decline” of traditional energy where power plants have been “retired”.
“780 coal power units, individual generators capable of producing energy, have retired, according to The New York Times. Energy nonprofit organization Resources for the Future estimated in 2017 that around 816 natural gas units and 791 petroleum-fired units had retired since 2005.”
Now here in Maryland “In Maryland, 16 coal-fired units have shuttered since 2012, representing 3,866 megawatts of electricity, according to the industry tracker Global Energy Monitor. Experts say the trend is fueled by the emergence of cheap natural gas and increasing competition from renewable energy sources like wind and solar. They say stricter federal environmental regulations are also to blame.”….
Since the inception of the Moore Administration January of 2023, the States energy direction has been in the direction of renewables Ie, Wind and Solar.
The Moore Administration in 2024, delivered a “death blow” to ” energy competition” by passing and signing 34 Page regulatory bill to do just that, MD 2024 SB1….
Energy rates in the State have increased by over a 1000 percent, since then, and Maryland now has the highest energy rates in the Country.
The State currently imports 40 percent of its energy from other States, and last year it was reported that with more Data Centers on the horizon, the State could be facing “blackouts” if the State doesn’t work to increase its energy generation.
We saw over the 4th of July weekend due to storms & a heatwave over 20 thousand Marylanders lost their power.
Now BGE wants to increase rates by $8 dollars a month, that would wipe out the “majority” of the $12 dollars a month in relief that was passed out of Annapolis this past session. In addition to this new proposal of more transmission lines, due to what happened over the 4th of July weekend.
Tonight FOX 45 Baltimore’s Mikenzie Frost did a “Comprehensive Look” at Maryland’s “Energy Crisis” the issue has been a major topic of discussion going on for the past several years in the State…
From all this going forward elected leaders in Maryland at all levels of Government should be working and meeting with our energy generator’s, to work on projects that “make sense” are “implemented properly” all with one goal to increase energy generation to bring real “Economic Relief / Affordability” to our States businesses and citizens who so desperately need it…..
The State of New York for example earlier this year broke ground on a pipeline for Natural Gas.
Without question the 2026 election in Maryland this is number 1 issue that all Marylanders should be concerned about this November!