Hybrid Public Hearing Nov. 12 for Cecil County Solar Project Proposal
October 29, 2025
Media contact: Tori Leonard | tori.leonard@maryland.gov
(BALTIMORE, MD) – Local residents and other interested members of the public are again invited to comment on a proposal by Halo Berlin LLC to construct a 2.05 MW solar generating facility in Cecil County. The hearing (in-person with a virtual option) will take place on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. at the Jerry Skrivanek V.F.W. Post 8185, 520 Susquehanna River Road in Port Deposit before Chief Public Utility Law Judge Kristin Case Lawrence. A previous public hearing in this case took place in July of this year.
In March 2025, Halo Berlin applied to the Maryland Public Service Commission for what is known as a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN), which grants an applicant the authority to construct an energy generating station in Maryland. According to the application, the developer proposes to build the Conowingo Creek project, intended as part of Maryland’s community solar program, on approximately 16.5 acres of a 73-acre property just south of Rock Springs Road in Conowingo.
In addition to taking comments from the public, the hearing will include a presentation by the applicant, and presentations by the Power Plant Research Program of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, and the Commission’s Technical Staff, of their respective recommendations in the case.
Those who would like to speak at the hearing remotely must sign up (by November 7, 2025) through the Calendly app on the Commission’s website, www.psc.state.md.us:
- Under ‘Featured Topics’ on the right side of the webpage, click on ‘Public Comment Hearing Sign Up’;
- Click on ‘Case 9785’, and the hearing date and time (November 12 at 6:30 p.m.);
- Click ‘Next’, enter name and email
- Click ‘Schedule Event’
Once the sign up process is complete, registrants will receive a Zoom link.
Barring any technical difficulties, the hearing can also be watched on the PULJ Division’s (MD PSC PULJs) YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2X6wLiP
In addition to the hearing, written comments can be sent electronically through the Commission’s online portal at https://www.psc.state.md.us/make-a-public-comment/, or by mail. Comments sent by mail should be addressed to: Jamie Bergin, Chief Clerk, Maryland Public Service Commission, William Donald Schaefer Tower, 6 St. Paul Street, 16th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202. So that they are noted in the proper case file, all comments should reference Case No. 9785 and can be sent through November 7, 2025.
In addition to the online docket, the application is available for review at the Cecil County Department of Land Use and Development Services, 200 Chesapeake Blvd., Suite 2300 in Elkton.