| MD | SB784 | Intro
25% | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB756 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company, gas company, gas and electric company, and water company in the State to submit an audit of utility operations, customer usage, and customer billing to the Public Service Commission every 3 months beginning December 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB753 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning October 1, 2025, that any wind turbine and accessory installation associated with a qualified offshore wind project or an offshore wind transmission project be installed with an aircraft detection lighting system approved by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB716 | Intro
25% | Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard; including nuclear energy generated by certain nuclear energy reactors as a Tier 1 renewable source; establishing a certified nuclear renewable energy credit for use in meeting certain renewable energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB737 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State or any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB991 | Intro
25% | Altering the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to offshore wind projects and video lottery terminals; and altering the date by which certain reports, studies, and gui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB742 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person constructing a solar energy generating station from exercising a right of condemnation in connection with that construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB739 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a solar energy generating station unless the Commission receives written approval for the construction of the generating station from each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB829 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "qualified generator lead line" for purposes of provisions of law regarding certificates of public convenience and necessity; requiring an applicant for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB640 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person constructing a solar energy generating station from exercising a right of condemnation in connection with that construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB643 | Intro
25% | Stating the authority to construct, permit, and operate in the State an energy generating system that produces energy from natural gas; stating the General Assembly's support for the development of additional nuclear energy in the State; and stating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB827 | Intro
25% | Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB34 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB37 | Intro
25% | Requiring an electric company, other than a municipal electric utility, by February 1 each year, to submit a report to the Public Service Commission regarding each recorded vote cast by the electric company and any of its affiliates at a meeting of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB10 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB316 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission by certain dates plans for the construction or procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices and to construct or procure the devices in accordance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB657 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB483 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB478 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a solar energy generating station unless the Commission receives written approval for the construction of the generating station from each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB645 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county and Baltimore City to update its comprehensive plan to include an electric system planning element for purposes of minimizing the impact of future transmission line development in the State; requiring each electric company servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB640 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB480 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee, the University System of Maryland, and the Maryland Clean Energy Center, to establish a Clean Energy Procurement Program in the Department on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB595 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for electricity production from renewable energy resources located in the State; and setting a target of 50% of all electricity sold in the State coming from electricity produced fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB505 | Intro
25% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB153 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renaming of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee to be the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee; altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB434 | Intro
25% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB398 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission by certain dates plans for the construction or procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices and to construct or procure the devices in accordance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB220 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB247 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; and expanding the sources...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB155 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; and expanding the sources...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB213 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of energy generating systems that produce energy from natural gas until the State meets 100% of its energy needs from renewable energy resources, including nuclear energy; establishing certain r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB121 | Intro
25% | Requiring an electric company, other than a municipal electric utility, by February 1 each year, to submit a report to the Public Service Commission regarding each recorded vote cast by the electric company and any of its affiliates at a meeting of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
