Constellation to Issue $170 Credits

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...

Constellation Energy will give 1.1 million electricity customers in the Washington-Baltimore area a one-time $170 credit on their bill. Mar 30, 2008

Filed under BGE, regional news by GaroldStone Added 03/30/2008

Power Outages Forecast For Maryland

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...

Maryland’s deregulation of electricity markets failed to deliver lower prices but instead led to rate spikes for millions of customers and left the state vulnerable to power shortages so severe that they could cause frequent brownouts, a highly critical report by state regulators concludes. Dec 4, 2007

Filed under money, BGE by GaroldStone Added 12/04/2007

Firm Applies To Expand Nuclear Plant In Maryland

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...

The first application to build a new U.S. nuclear power plant in three decades has been filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, bumping a proposed third unit at a Calvert County site to the front of a list of reactors being considered by the nuclear power industry. July 31, 2007

Filed under BGE by GaroldStone Added 08/01/2007

Electricity Average Retail P...to Customers by Sector/Stage

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/e...

At 13.65 ckwh, Constellation/BGE Prices trump prices paid in the other states of the South Atlantic region. Constellation/BGE is second only to New York on electricity prices. July 11, 2007

Filed under BGE by GaroldStone Added 07/11/2007

BGE Rate Stabilization Choices by June 30, 2007

http://southlaurel.blogspot.com/2007/05/bg...

Go here for the gory details and to see the choices we all have to make by June 30, 2007. There are also links to related news and analysis (updated quixotically)

Filed under BGE by GaroldStone Added 05/27/2007

50 Percent Rate Hike OK’d for BGE Customers

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=598&...

BALTIMORE (AP) - State officials reluctantly approved a 50 percent rate increase Wednesday for the 1.1 million residential customers of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., saying they had “little legal option” to defer or reduce the utility company’s proposal. The increase goes into effect next Friday. Customers will have until June 30 to elect to defer a portion of the increase until January, when market rates will kick in. May 24, 2007

Filed under BGE by GaroldStone Added 05/27/2007

Constellation Engery & F-P-L Merger Cancelled

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...

The marriage of Constellation Energy and F-P-L Group is off. In a joint news release this morning, the companies say they reached a “joint and amicable agreement” to terminate their planned merger. Oct 25, 2006

Filed under BGE by GaroldStone Added 10/25/2006

Hearing supports Ehrlich’s opinion

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal...

Baltimore City Solicitor Ralph S. Tyler, who argued the lawsuit on behalf of O’Malley, a Democratic candidate for governor, said that the PSC must be replaced because it failed in its duties to investigate the rate increase and allowed rates to go up for budget-billing customers before caps expired. June 21, 2006

Filed under BGE by GaroldStone Added 07/02/2006

Baltimore City attorney put brakes on PSC

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/har...

The city became involved in April when low-income Baltimore customers on BGE’s budget-billing program began to see the 72 percent rate increase. June 25, 2006

Filed under BGE by GaroldStone Added 07/02/2006