Maryland Public Service Commission

She's been a ratepayer advocate.

She's worked as a senior commission advisor at the Maryland Public Service Commission, and I had the pleasure of working with Molly when she was the VP of policy at the Coalition for Community Solar Access.

Molly has led a lot of Align's research work for CHESA, and a lot of that research work really, you know, set the stage for what was an incredibly active Virginia General Assembly session.

We actually held a legislator roundtable, uh, in October before the affordability narrative completely, uh, took off, and look at all the legislation that's come out of the General Assembly since.

Pilot Maryland regulators found multi-year rate plans did not deliver clear customer benefits and opened a broader review of how future utility costs should reach electric bills.

The Maryland Public Service Commission, PSC, closed its multi-year rate plan pilot on October 1st, concluding that the goals set for the experiment were largely unachieved.

Instead of making the framework permanent, the Commission opened a two-phase review that could change how electric utilities forecast spending and recover it from customers.

For large commercial and industrial customers, the review will shape how far ahead they are asked to pay for utility investment.

The governor told Channel thirteen he would like the president to see the unprecedented speed and unprecedented progress that's happening with the rebuild.

The Maryland Public Service Commission ending its multiyear rate plan, uh, pilot program.

The PSC says the intended goals were largely unachieved and the utilities failed to sufficiently show the customer benefits of their capital infrastructure project spending.

In Baltimore, Inspector General Isabel Cummings' office has withdrawn its motion to hold the Scott administration in contempt over the lack of access to city records.

Uh, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, uh, also says he would love it if President Trump would join him for a boat tour for the Francis Scott Pre- Scott Key Bridge, Key reconstruction site, that is, uh, citing unprecedented speed and unprecedented progress, uh, in the, uh, Key Bridge.

[laughs] DOJ is suing the state of Maryland for its laws banning ICE agents from wearing masks.

Uh, elsewhere, the Maryland Public Service Commission is ending its, uh, multi-year rate, uh, plan pilot program, saying the intended goals were largely, uh, unachieved.

Uh, and of course, the Baltimore Inspector General, Isabel Cumming's office, has withdrawn its motion, its contempt motion, to hold the Scott administration in contempt over the lack of access to city records.

Yeah, so the Battery Working Group, or the Maryland Energy Storage Program Working Group, was initiated at the end of... 2023, actually, because in April of 2023, the Maryland legislature passed a bill setting an energy storage target for the state of three gigawatts of energy storage in 10 years.

And so that when that bill was passed and signed by the governor, it went to the Maryland Public Service Commission to implement to say, OK, how are we going to achieve that goal, that three gigawatt goal in these next 10 years? And there are also interim goals like in the in the years in between from now and then, there were interim numbers below that 3 gigawatts.

And so it was the job of the commission to say, OK, what are we going to do? What rules, regulations, and programs, and tariffs are we going to create such that we're going to achieve those deployment goals for energy storage in the state on those time frames? And so they created a working group that is Commission created, but not necessarily part of the formal process.

And it was the idea was this group would be all the stakeholders in Maryland who are interested in energy storage and want to see the state achieve the goals.