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Soaring home heating bills, driven by BGE’s wasteful spending on gas pipeline replacement , have placed additional strain on Baltimore residents, requiring immediate legislative action.

These recent rate hikes are adding to the many previous policies that have left Maryland residents, particularly older individuals on fixed incomes, struggling to cope with unaffordable utility bills. This situation demands immediate attention and action.

While imperfect, EmPOWER Maryland, the state’s energy efficiency program, has been tremendously successful.

For residents like my grandmother, a homeowner in Forest Park who lives on a fixed income, rising gas bills aren’t just painful — they make it hard to make ends meet.

What BGE doesn’t want its customers to know is that the major cause of rising bills is the utility’s highly profitable multibillion-dollar “operation pipeline” program and other wasteful profit-driven capital spending that is delivering big for shareholders.

BGE customers will see their energy bills rise by $26 per month in the first half of 2025 due in large part to controversial multi-year pilot programs and the multi-billion dollar gas pipeline replacement program. Advocates call on the state legislature and utility regulators to end policies that are leading to excessive utility profits and massive rate hikes.

The Maryland Public Service Commission finalized an order to implement the EmPOWER Maryland energy efficiency program with changes required by a 2024 law. While the Commission approved new and expanded incentives for efficient electric equipment such as heat pumps and heat pump water heaters, regulators kept subsidies in place for fossil fuel equipment proposed by Washington Gas.

The Public Service Commission and legislature should end state-accelerated cost-recovery policies that allow utility companies to quickly recoup their money. These policies cause steep increases in utility rates.

Lawmakers passed the EmPOWER Maryland Energy Efficiency Act of 2024 this spring, giving the Public Service Commission an opportunity to help Marylanders upgrade to healthier, more efficient homes.

This holiday season, tell the Maryland Public Service Commission that energy efficient homes are on your wishlist.

Watch the Upgrade Maryland campaign kick-off webinar.

Today a coalition of consumer, interfaith, health and climate advocates submitted public comments urging the Public Service Commission to strengthen the state’s energy efficiency program. 

Maryland’s Public Service Commission will hold a hearing Tuesday, to review lessons learned from Baltimore Gas and Electric’s 2021-2023 multi-year rate plan. The hearing is part of the commission's evaluation process, where feedback will be gathered to assess how well the plan met the goals set by the PSC.

A coalition of consumer advocates wants Maryland utility regulators to do away with a method of setting rates used by Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. that covers multiple years, saying the process has led to excessive rate hikes.

There were calls Wednesday to change how Baltimore Gas and Electric charges its customers. Currently, a pilot program allows BGE to charge customers for the cost of projects without regulatory scrutiny.

There were calls Wednesday to change how Baltimore Gas and Electric charges its customers. Currently, a pilot program allows BGE to charge customers for the cost of projects without regulatory scrutiny.

A coalition of elected officials, labor, consumer, and climate groups is urging the Maryland Public Service Commission to protect residents from excessive rate hikes by ending the multi-year rate plan pilot program which launched in 2020.

The Maryland Office of Home Energy Programs (OHEP) is preparing for a record number of energy assistance applications this year. OHEP expects to assist 270,000 households. Last year, it received 243,252 applications.