Summary
The Baltimore Gas & Electric Company delivers electricity to more than 1 million customers in a 2,300-sqaure-mile area that includes Baltimore City and all or part of 10 counties in central Maryland. The company also serves more than 600,000 natural gas customers. BGE was founded in 1816 as the first gas utility in the United States, and it brought light in the form of burning gas to Baltimore's streets. It later expanded to included electric power early in the 20th century, and nuclear power with the opening of the Calvert Cliffs nuclear reactor in southern Maryland in 1975. BGE is a division of Constellation Energy Group, one of the largest sellers of wholesale power in the nation. BGE's rates -- specifi...
The Baltimore Gas & Electric Company delivers electricity to more than 1 million customers in a 2,300-sqaure-mile area that includes Baltimore City and all or part of 10 counties in central Maryland. The company also serves more than 600,000 natural gas customers. BGE was founded in 1816 as the first gas utility in the United States, and it brought light in the form of burning gas to Baltimore's streets. It later expanded to included electric power early in the 20th century, and nuclear power with the opening of the Calvert Cliffs nuclear reactor in southern Maryland in 1975. BGE is a division of Constellation Energy Group, one of the largest sellers of wholesale power in the nation. BGE's rates -- specifically, a projected rate increase of 72% -- were a contentious issue during the 2006 Maryland gubernatorial race between incumbent Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and challenger Martin O'Malley.
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3,000 test BGE 'smart meters'
Sun reporterMore than 3,000 utility customers in Baltimore and Westminster are participating in a test of advanced electric meters that could save them money and reduce energy usage during times of peak demand, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. said yesterday. The so-... -
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Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport will be one of 20 busy airports nationwide that will get new runway traffic lights to help prevent aircraft collisions on the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that over...Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Joseph Smith, Provident Bankshares Corporation, Metal and Mineral, Iron and Steel
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Man, 19, electrocuted in Anne Arundel
Sun ReporterA 19-year-old contractor for Baltimore Gas and Electric died Saturday night after he fell into a hole he had dug in Severna Park and came into contact with a live power line, Anne Arundel County police said. Thomas Kikas Jr. of Middle River, an...Tags: University of Maryland Medical Center, Severna Park, Cherry Hill, Government, Fires
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Constellation seeks complaint dismissal
Constellation Energy is intervening in a federal complaint filed by energy regulators in Maryland and other Mid-Atlantic states. State regulators filed the complaint against PJM Interconnection, a regional transmission organization that supplies power...Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations
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N. Charles St. fire disrupts services downtown
Sun reportersThe underground electrical fire that blasted a North Charles Street manhole cover skyward Monday continued to hobble downtown traffic and commerce Tuesday - a frustrating reminder of how the aging, unseen matrix of wires and pipes beneath Baltimore can...Tags: Fires
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PSC weighs shift in utilities' way of buying power
Sun reporterThe Public Service Commission wants to gauge whether Maryland utilities could lower electric bills by owning their own power plants or entering into long-term contracts with power generators, a new regulatory filing shows. In its latest step toward...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Contracts, Pepco Holdings Incorporated, Consumers, Litigation and Regulation
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Did you hear the one about BGE's too-low bill?
Frank Margolis doesn't think his Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. bill is nearly steep enough. Intent on finding a way to pay the utility more than what he is billed every month, the 70-year-old professor e-mailed me a few weeks ago for help. This is... -
Extension of ban on fly ash sought
Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold said yesterday he will seek legislation to extend a ban on the dumping of fly ash in the county until October 2009. The ban ends in October of this year, and Leopold said that fly ash previously dumped by...Tags: Metal and Mineral, John R Leopold, Local Authority, Mining
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Campaign spending way out of control
I don't get it. Gas is more than $4 a gallon, and Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. bills have gone up almost 80 percent in the last year or so. Foreclosures are skyrocketing. People are having to choose whether to buy medicine, food or energy. Even...Tags: State Budgets, Elections, Public Finance, John McCain, Political Candidates
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Monkey business at PJM system
Two days ago, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said she had evidence a company called Edison Mission Energy continued a suspicious pattern of wholesale electricity trading long after it claimed to have stopped. Why does this matter to Maryland?...Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Lawyers, Lisa Madigan, Securities, Regulatory Policy and Organizations
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