Energy Matters
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Gas Generating Facilities - Authorization [HB-1217]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of natural gas generating facilities in the State until the State meets 50% of its energy needs from renewable energy resources; and requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to work with the owners and operators of natural gas generating facilities in the State to decrease the production of energy from natural gas after the State meets 50% of its energy needs from renewable energy resources.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025
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Building Energy Performance Standards - Public Safety, Emergency, and Public Utility Buildings - Exclusion (Safe Solutions Now Act of 2025) [HB-1414]
[Energy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
Altering the definition of "covered building" for purposes of certain building energy performance standards to exclude certain public safety, emergency, and public utility buildings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus R Kipke
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Goods - Restrictions Based on Energy Source - Prohibition (Energy Equality Act of 2025) [HB-1258]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Prohibiting a local government or unit of State government from restricting the sale, purchase, or use of a certain consumer good solely on the basis of the energy source used to power the consumer good; repealing provisions of law requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and maintain a certain low emissions vehicle program; repealing provisions of law requiring the Department to establish requirements for the sale of new zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles; and applying the Act retroactively.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus R Kipke
Hearing Canceled (environment And Transportation) on 03/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Full Costs and Benefits Analysis of Sources of Electricity Generation [HB-1149]
[Energy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct an analysis of the full costs and benefits of sources of electricity generation in the State; requiring the Commission to include recommended policy changes to support the development of energy sources with the lowest costs and greatest benefits to the ratepayers of the State; and requiring the Commission to reports its findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Troy Adams
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Home Improvement Commission - Residential Solar Power System Installation - Contractor License Required [HB-1170]
[Energy ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Small Business ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring a person to have a contractor license to install residential solar power system equipment.
Sponsored by: Rep. William J. Wivell
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Solar Energy Generating Systems - Systems Located on or Over Water Retention Ponds, Quarries, or Brownfields [HB-1111]
[Energy ]
[Taxes ]
[Property Tax ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Providing that solar energy generating systems located on or over certain water retention ponds or quarries are eligible for the Small Solar Energy Generating System Incentive Program; and authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant by law, a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on certain nonresidential solar energy generating systems.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Vincent Fraser-hidalgo
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 458 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) [HB-1036]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; 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 develop and submit to the Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 624 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of Agriculture - Public Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment - Registration, Regulation, and Oversight [HB-1039]
[Agriculture ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring the owner of public electric vehicle supply equipment to register with the Secretary of Agriculture on or before certain dates; applying certain provisions of law regarding weights and measures to public electric vehicle supply equipment; requiring the Secretary to establish a program to test the weight and measure of public electric vehicle supply equipment and ensure the equipment conforms to certain standards; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nick Allen
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act [HB-1037]
[Energy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the Risk Report to assess wholesale energy market financial resource adequacy and reliability risks and to identify any necessary cost-effective solutions that ensure electric system reliability while meeting the State's energy policy goals; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brian M. Crosby
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/16/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act) [HB-1035]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Climate Change ]
[Housing ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
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; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nuclear energy generation stations; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 626 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Study on the Electric Transmission and Distribution System [HB-1079]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct a study on the electric transmission system and the electric distribution system in the State; and establishing that the purpose of the study is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the potential application of grid-enhancing technologies and advanced conductors in a manner that ensures system reliability and safeguards the cybersecurity and physical security of the electric transmission system and electric distribution system in Maryland.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Vincent Fraser-hidalgo
Hearing Canceled on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Coal Transportation Fee and Fossil Fuel Mitigation Fund (Coal Dust Cleanup and Asthma Remediation Act) [HB-1088]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Climate Change ]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Imposing a coal transportation fee on a person that transports coal in the State; providing that the rate of the coal transportation fee is $13 per short ton transported in the State; providing the fee does not apply to the transportation of coal that is solely for use on a farm and the carrier does not otherwise use or sell the coal; establishing the Fossil Fuel Mitigation Fund to support activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Hearing Canceled (environment And Transportation) on 03/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Home Improvement Commission - Residential Solar Power System Installation - Contractor License Required [SB-794]
[Energy ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Small Business ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring a person to have a contractor license to install residential solar power system equipment.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Mautz
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program - Funding [SB-849]
[Healthcare ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Science ]
Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers in the collection, analysis, and processing of Program outcome data for the purposes of assessing, maximizing, and improving the effectiveness and clinical utility of the cancer screening funded by the Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy J Guzzone
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 640 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Gas Generating Facilities - Authorization [SB-950]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of natural gas generating facilities in the State until the State meets 50% its energy needs from renewable energy resources; and requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to work with the owners and operators of natural gas generating facilities in the State to decrease the production of energy from natural gas after the State meets 50% its energy needs from renewable energy resources.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Solar Energy - Distributed Generation Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, Ground-Mounted Solar, and Small Solar Siting Workgroup [SB-983]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Environmental ]
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 develop and submit to the Public Service Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; prohibiting a county from enacting certain zoning laws or adopting certain regulations regarding certain ground-mounted solar systems and facilities; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Overhead Transmission Lines - Grid Enhancing Technologies [SB-952]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
Adding grid enhancing technologies to the list of requirements the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of an overhead transmission line.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Transmission Line Siting - Limitations [SB-853]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from authorizing, and a person from undertaking, the construction of an overhead transmission line outside of an existing transmission line right-of-way unless the applicant adequately demonstrates to the Commission that existing transmission line rights-of-way are not sufficient for the proposed overhead transmission line.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Data Centers - Fast Track Pass for Co-Location and Sales and Use Tax [SB-903]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Economic Development ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establishing an expedited certificate of public convenience and necessity review process for certain co-located energy generation projects that have received a fast track pass; establishing a Data Center Fast Track Advisory Committee in the Public Service Commission to facilitate the application for and review and awarding of fast track passes; altering the requirements for qualified data center personal property to be eligible to be exempt from the sales and use tax; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Hearing Canceled (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 03/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environmental Permits - Requirements for Public Participation and Impact and Burden Analyses (Cumulative Harms to Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) [SB-978]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Air Quality ]
[Water ]
[Community Development ]
Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a person applying for certain environmental permits for certain projects with an increased potential to cause adverse community environmental and public health impacts to include in the permit application an environmental impact analysis; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025