BGE restores service to 1,000 after main break
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: baltimore gas and electric, BGE, carrollton ridge, gas main, mill hill, millington avenue, restoring water
Baltimore Gas and Electric and city workers are working to restore gas service to more than 1,000 homes after a gas main break new Millington Avenue.
Officials say most affected residents have had service restored. But outreach to the Mill Hill and Carrollton Ridge communities continues on Monday. Workers are restoring water and natural gas service [...]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves Constellation-Exelon deal
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 16, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, Constellation Energy Group, constellation energy nuclear group, constellation exelon merger, edf, Exelon Corp., gov. martin o'malley, nine mile point, NRC, nuclear, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of the People's Counsel, power plants, r.e. ginna
Exelon’s proposed takeover of Constellation Energy crossed another hurdle Thursday when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the $7.9 billion deal.
Constellation’s nuclear division, the Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, is licensed to operate five reactors and two spent fuel installations. The staffs at the plants, including management, will remain essentially unchanged [...]
Talbot County wind and solar power project canceled
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 15, 2012
Tags: easton, Energy, maryland, Solar Power, talbot county, wastewater, wind
EASTON — A wind and solar power project proposed for a Talbot County wastewater treatment plant has been canceled by the county council.
Council members said at Tuesday’s meeting that the expected electricity savings of $13,000 to $15,000 was not enough to justify the $200,000 the county would have had to pay for the $600,000 project, [...]
O’Malley lobbies lawmakers for offshore wind
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 14, 2012
Tags: bills, customers, Energy, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, lawmakers, mark mcdougall, offshore wind energy, sen. allan kittleman, senate finance committee, southern marlyand electric cooperative, utilities, wind
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley lobbied lawmakers Tuesday for one of the key pieces of his environmental agenda, a reworked offshore wind power bill modeled on a New Jersey law.
The bill follows one that was killed the year before by lawmakers over concerns about costs. That bill would have mandated utilities enter long-term contracts with [...]
O’Malley to testify on offshore wind measure
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 14, 2012
Tags: consumers, costs, Energy, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, legislative agenda, offshore wind, senate finance committee, wind energy
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley will be speaking in support of a bill aimed at developing offshore wind energy in Maryland.
O’Malley, a Democrat, is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee.
The governor has made the measure a priority of his legislative agenda again this year.
Last year, a bill that would have required utilities [...]
NRC approves first new nuclear plant in three decades
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 9, 2012
Tags: fukushima daiichi, georgia, gregory jaczko, nuclear, nuclear energy institute, nuclear reactor, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, president barack obama, public citizen, reactors, south carolina gas & electric, southern co., Thomas A. Fanning, vogtle
WASHINGTON — The nation’s first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted 4-1 to approve Atlanta-based Southern Co.’s request to build two nuclear reactors at its Vogtle site south of Augusta.
The vote [...]
Exelon’s $250M Harbor Point project to include retail and residences 
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: February 8, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore city community college, exelon, Harbor East Development Group LLC, Harbor Point, maryland, mccormick & co., Michael S. Beatty
Exelon Corp.’s new building on the city’s waterfront in Harbor Point will be part of a $250 million development and will attract about 4,500 permanent jobs, company officials said Wednesday.
Details of the project were unveiled Wednesday by Exelon executives and the developer, Harbor East Development Group LLC, less than a week after the energy giant [...]
Maryland consumer advocate opposes Constellation-Exelon deal
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 7, 2012
Tags: baltimore gas and electric, constellation, Constellation Energy, exelon, gov. martin o'malley, maryland office of people's counsel, merger, Public Service Commission
Maryland’s consumer advocate says Exelon’s proposed $7.9 billion takeover Constellation Energy is still not in the public’s interest, despite the two companies’ recent settlement with Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration.
The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel said in a filing Monday with the Public Service Commission that the two companies have not demonstrated the merger will not [...]
Dominion power wading into offshore winds
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 2, 2012
Tags: atlantic, department of energy, dominion, dominion virginia power, electric, mary doswell, offshore wind, power, utility, wind, wind energy, wind power
Dominion Virginia Power is interested in building up to 400 wind turbines in Atlantic waters in what could be a powerful message for a slowly emerging domestic source of clean energy.
“If everything aligns and it makes good sense and we have our regulators on board, yes, we would be moving forward on a wind farm,” [...]
Interior secretary says review moves wind energy project forward
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 2, 2012
Tags: Cape Wind, Defense Department, delaware, Environment America Clean Energy Advocate Courtney Abrams, interior secretary ken salazar, maryland, new jersey, offshore, pollution, power, project, wind energy
Offshore wind farms from New Jersey to Virginia took a big step closer to reality with the completion of a review that showed the renewable energy source would not cause major environmental damage, officials said Thursday.
Obama administration Interior Secretary Ken Salazar also said his department also was trying to speed up the process for issuing [...]
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