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The Public Service Commission of Maryland filed notices of Standard Offer Service (SOS) hearings.  

From Notices: 

[ *** ] The Commission hereby gives notice of a hearing on Thursday, January 15, 2026, at 2:00 p.m., for the Standard Offer Service (“SOS”) Bid Monitor consultant and the Commission’s Technical Staff to brief the Commission on the conduct of the January 12, 2026 solicitations for offers for a portion of the residential customer loads by The Potomac Edison Company (“PE”) and the results, in conjunction with the hearing for review of PE’s, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company’s, Delmarva Power and Light Company’s and Potomac Electric Power Company’s (collectively, the IOUs”) Type II SOS procurement results. The IOUs are hereby directed to provide Commission Staff no later than 12:00 Noon, Wednesday, January 14, 2026, with individual class retail bill impact data consistent with the results of the January 12, 2026 bids to ensure that Staff is able to file its written testimony in the matter prior to the hearing commencement time.

The hearing will be held in the Commission’s Frank O. Heintz Hearing Room, 16th Floor, William Donald Schaefer Tower, 6 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. As discussed in Order No. 81102 in Case No. 9064, the Commission will conduct a review of confidential and highly commercially sensitive bidder specific data during the process and at the hearings. The public briefing, therefore, will include only the information that can be made public under the provisions of the request for proposals and the full requirements service agreement. Additionally, the Commission will solicit remarks from any of the parties and members of the public following the briefing. [ *** ] 

Notice (ML# 325686) (12/29/2025)
9056 (02/17/2006)
(In The Matter Of The Commission’s Investigation Into Default Service For Type Ii Standard Offer Service Customers)
9064 (05/10/2006)
(In The Matter Of The Competitive Selection Of Electricity Supplier/Standard Offer Or Default