Electricity
Overview
The Electricity Division conducts economic, financial, and policy analyses relevant to the regulation of electric utilities, electricity retail markets, low-income concerns, and other related issues.
Drew M. McAuliffe is the Director of the Electricity Division; Brandon M. Bowser serves as the assistant director.
The Division prepares the results of these analyses in written testimony, recommendations to the Commission, and various reports. Most of the work is focused on regulation, policy, and market activities related to the provision of retail electricity.
This work includes:
- Retail competition policy and implementation related to restructuring in the electric utility industry
- Rate of return on equity and capital structure
- Pricing structure and design
- Load forecasting
- Low-income customer policy and statistical analysis
- Renewable/Distributed Generation/Net Metering
- Consumer protection regulations
- Consumer education
- Codes of conduct
- Mergers
- Jurisdictional and customer class cost-of-service determinations
- The Division’s analyses and recommendations may be used as expert testimony in formal proceedings, as special topical studies requested by the Commission, for leadership of or participation in work groups established by the Commission, or in formal comments on other filings made with the Commission.
The Division’s primary duty is researching and analyzing rate proceedings that are before the Commission
This analysis includes:
- Rate Design — The setting of electricity prices to recover the cost of providing service to a specific class of customers.
- Cost of Service Studies — The classification of utility operating costs and plant investments and the allocation of those costs to the customer classes that cause them.
- Cost of Capital — The financial analysis that determines the appropriate return to allow on a utility’s plant investment, given the returns observed from the utility industry regionally and nationally.
Quick Links
CPCN
The permitting process for building new energy generation or transmission lines in Maryland.
Energy Efficiency and Empower Maryland
Saving utility customers energy and money – millions of kilowatt-hours and billions of dollars.
Electric Utility Tariffs
The document that includes a utility’s rates, charges, rules and regulations.
Electric Choice Enrollment Reports
Utility customers enrolled in electric choice, by utility and customer class.
Application for Licenses to Supply Electricity
Download an application to supply non-green power electricity, to renew your non-green power electric supply application, or to submit an application to offer green power.
Community Solar Program
The Community Solar program encourages private investment in Maryland’s solar industry and diversify the state’s energy resource mix.
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