Energy Matters
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Coal Transportation Fee and Fossil Fuel Mitigation Fund (Coal Dust Cleanup and Asthma Remediation Act) [SB-882]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Climate Change ]
[Taxes ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Funding ]
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 that 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: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of Agriculture - Public Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment - Registration, Regulation, and Oversight [SB-913]
[Agriculture ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
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: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Co-Location Energy Innovation and Reliability Act [SB-947]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations related to the construction of a generating station that is co-located with a data center but is not interconnected with the electric transmission system or electric distribution system.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Electric Distribution System Plans - Establishment (Affordable Grid Act) [SB-908]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations or issue orders on or before December 31, 2025, that require electric companies to, every 3 years, develop an electric system distribution plan to be approved by the Commission and provide the Commission with annual progress reports; requiring the Commission to adopt regulations or issue orders adopting certain metrics to monitor and assess electric distribution system plans; requiring an electric company to provide certain public comment opportunities; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Investor-Owned Electric Companies - Generating and Transmission Facilities - Authorization [SB-951]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing investor-owned electric companies in the State to construct, acquire, or lease, and operate, their own generating facilities and construct, acquire, or lease, and operate, certain transmission facilities; and repealing the authority of the Public Service Commission to allow an investor-owned electric company to construct, acquire, or lease, and operate, its own generating facilities or construct, acquire, or lease, and operate, certain transmission facilities under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Construction and Expansion of Transmission Lines and Task Force to Develop a Realistic Electricity Plan for Maryland [SB-953]
[Energy ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Construction ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Task Force to Develop a Realistic Electricity Plan for Maryland to study and make recommendations on the State's current and future electricity needs under various scenarios; and prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving the construction or expansion of transmission lines in the State from July 1, 2025, through May 1, 2026.
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
Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act [SB-909]
[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: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
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) [SB-937]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Housing ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
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: Sen. Brian J. Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 625 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) [SB-931]
[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: Sen. Brian J. Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 623 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Cyber Maryland Program - Revisions [SB-867]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue competitive grants and contracts beginning in fiscal year 2026, to enhance cybersecurity workforce development, including cybersecurity for operational technology; authorizing the Governor for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation sufficient to run the program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 218 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - School Building Energy Usage - Monthly Report [SB-818]
[Education ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Construction ]
Requiring each county board of education to collect data on energy usage and report the data collected to the Interagency Commission on School Construction; requiring the Commission to adopt regulations specifying the data to be collected and the means and frequency of reporting; and requiring the Commission to analyze the data collected and provide recommendations for improving school building energy efficiency and usage.
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Overhead Transmission Lines - Eminent Domain [SB-955]
[Energy ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
[Environmental ]
[Construction ]
Prohibiting a person constructing an overhead transmission line from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property encumbered by a conservation easement; authorizing a certain property owner to bring an action for damages incurred as a result of a certain condemnation proceeding; and requiring that reasonable counsel fees be awarded to counsel for the defendant in a condemnation proceeding and that certain court costs be charged against the plaintiff under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Local Building Energy Performance Standards - Authorization [SB-807]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Air Quality ]
[Climate Change ]
Authorizing counties to adopt local building energy performance standards that are at least as stringent as certain standards adopted by the Department of the Environment if the standards are approved by the Department; authorizing a county to enforce local building energy performance standards; and exempting a covered building that is subject to certain local building energy performance standards from complying with certain statewide standards.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Fred Kramer
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Building Performance Standards - Fossil Fuel Use, Energy Conservation, and Electric- and Solar-Ready Standards (Better Buildings Act of 2025) [SB-804]
[Energy ]
[Construction ]
[Environmental ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Housing ]
[Climate Change ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, by October 1, 2025, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, energy conservation requirements, an electric- and solar-ready standard for certain buildings, and a requirement that new buildings and significant improvements meet all laundry, water, and space heating demands of the building without the use of fossil fuels.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne C. Benson
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Building Energy Performance Standards - Agricultural Buildings [SB-778]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from requiring an owner, lessor, lessee, or operator of an agricultural building to apply to the Department for an exemption from certain building energy performance standards.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jason C. Gallion
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Electric Cooperatives - Rate Proceedings [HB-984]
[Energy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Applying to electric cooperatives certain provisions of law related to rate proceedings held by the Public Service Commission to determine whether additional revenues are required to allow certain public service companies to earn the existing fair rate of return authorized in a previous base rate proceeding; and requiring the Commission to order an electric cooperative to conduct a certain public hearing.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brian M. Crosby
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 502 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Building Performance Standards - Fossil Fuel Use, Energy Conservation, and Electric- and Solar-Ready Standards (Better Buildings Act of 2025) [HB-973]
[Energy ]
[Construction ]
[Environmental ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Climate Change ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, by October 1, 2025, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, energy conservation requirements, an electric- and solar-ready standard for certain buildings, and a requirement that new buildings and significant improvements meet all laundry, water, and space heating demands of the building without the use of fossil fuels.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Climate Solutions Now Act Affordability Act of 2025 [SB-779]
[Climate Change ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain buildings, measuring and reporting direct emissions data to the Department of the Environment, achieving certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, and achieving zero-emission vehicle goals relating to the State vehicle fleet and local school buses; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Nuclear Energy - Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard and Procurement (Decarbonization Infrastructure Solutions Act of 2025) [SB-716]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Climate Change ]
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 portfolio standard requirements; establishing a procurement process for the Public Service Commission to evaluate and approve an application for nuclear energy generation projects; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Rights Protection Act of 2025 [SB-737]
[Energy ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
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 of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from acquiring by condemnation property that is encumbered by certain conservation easements or will be used for the construction of a power line or a certain generating station.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025