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February 4, 2025
The Maryland PSC has opened Case 9778 to address issues concerning "retail grid services" including, but not limited to, implementation of virtual power plants (VPPs)
April 12, 2023
The Maryland PSC approved the consensus recommendations of the PC 44 workgroup for communications that retail suppliers and utilities will send to customers due to a recent law in Maryland that limits customers who receive energy assistance through a program administered by the Office of Home Energy…
March 29, 2023
A PC 44 workgroup, addressing a recent law in Maryland that limits customers who receive energy assistance through a program administered by the Office of Home Energy Programs (OHEP) to retail supplier offers that have been approved by the PSC, has reached a general consensus on communications that…
January 28, 2022
Inspire Energy Holdings, LLC formally notified the Maryland PSC that it did not proceed with a time of use pilot that it had proposed and for which it had been selected under an RFP managed by the PSC
January 21, 2022
The Maryland Public Conference 44 (PC44) Competitive Markets and Customer Choice (CMCC) Work Group Leader submitted to the Maryland PSC a status report on the implementation of a requirement under Senate Bill 79 (SB79), enacted by the Maryland General Assembly during the 2021 legislative session…
February 18, 2020
An Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification plan filed with the Maryland PSC has provided more details concerning Constellation's approved retail customer load shaping pilot approved by the PSC
November 25, 2019
The Maryland utilities have filed responses with the PSC in response to various requests made by retail electric suppliers made in response to an RFP for load shaping pilots
October 16, 2019
Baltimore Gas & Electric and Pepco have informed the Maryland PSC that, in aggregate, two retail electric suppliers have filed proposals in response to the utilities' RFPs for load shaping pilot programs
June 13, 2019
PSC "Looks Forward" To "Robust" Retail Supplier Participation
The Maryland PSC has adopted a final RFP for retail electric suppliers to propose load shaping pilot programs and directed Baltimore Gas and Electric, Pepco, and Delmarva Power to each issue an RFP (PC44)
May 15, 2019
The Maryland PC 44 energy storage working group has filed a revised Proof of Regulatory Concept Program Proposal which is intended, "to test innovative regulatory and business models for energy storage."
March 20, 2019
The Maryland PSC has invited retail electric suppliers to participate in a "load shaping" pilot and invited comments on a draft RFP to select retail suppliers for the pilot, under PC 44
February 22, 2019
The Maryland PSC scheduled for March 13, 2019 a legislative-style hearing on a non-consensus working group Proof of Regulatory Concept Program Proposal concerning energy storage which is, "intended to test innovative regulatory and business models for energy storage."
February 11, 2019
The Maryland PSC will hold a hearing on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, concerning a previously filed consultant report entitled, "Benefits and Costs of Utility Scale and Behind the Meter Solar Resources in Maryland." (PC 44)
January 15, 2019
A Maryland energy storage working group under PC 44 has proffered a non-consensus Proof of Regulatory Concept Program Proposal which is, "intended to test innovative regulatory and business models for energy storage."
December 17, 2018
The Maryland PSC has authorized Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco), and Delmarva Power & Light Company to offer to customers in a Time of Use pilot (which includes TOU supply rates for utility supply service) a Behavioral Load Shifting (Shaping) tool.
August 27, 2018
PSC Skeptical It Has Authority Over Energy "Consultants"
July 5, 2018
The Retail Energy Supply Association on June 28 filed a letter with the Maryland PSC to clarify RESA’s participation in the second phase of the PC44 Rate Design Workgroup process, addressing SOS and retail supplier Time of Use pilots, as referenced in a Report and Letter Order in the proceeding.
July 3, 2018
The Maryland PSC has set further legislative-style hearings concerning proposal for a "Statewide EV Portfolio" that would include utility ownership of over 1,000 electric vehicle charging stations
March 9, 2018
The Maryland Public Service Commission initiated an Administrative Docket, RM 62, to consider revisions to the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) 20.32, 20.50, 20.53, 20.55, and 20.59 regarding customer choice in the retail gas and electric competitive markets and related issues
February 5, 2018
The working group leader has filed a report in PC44, addressing several retail market enhancements and issues, including instant connects, seamless moves, and third-party access to customer usage history, among other issues.
February 5, 2018
Suggests Further Study Of Requiring Suppliers To Send Advance Notice Of Rate Changes Via Email
The working group leader in PC44, a Maryland PSC process addressing several retail market enhancements and issues, has recommended a third phase of the process be initiated to study several more issues.
February 5, 2018
The Maryland PSC recently issued a letter order extending a waiver of the requirement that electric and natural gas suppliers perform background checks on door-to-door agents
January 23, 2018
The Maryland utilities as well as certain green-focused stakeholders have proposed, as the result of a working group (PC 44), that the state adopt an "EV portfolio" that would, among other things, authorize the utilities to own and operate over 1,000 electric vehicle charging stations
November 29, 2017
Will Permit 2 Retail Suppliers (Rather Than 1) To Offer TOU Pilot Per Service Area
The Maryland PSC has directed the creation of supply rate time of use pilots offered via utilities to non-shopping customers, and through up to two retail suppliers per each of the three service areas with AMI (BGE, Pepco, an Delmarva).
August 24, 2017
The workgroup leaders in a Maryland PSC rate design proceeding (PC44) have filed proposals for two pilot programs to offer customers Time of Use rates -- one of which relies on a retail supplier to offer dynamic supply prices, and another designed for SOS customers that would offer TOU rates for…
