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Hearing Held on Bill Seeking to Repeal Ban on Residential Energy Shopping
On March 10th the Environment and Transportation Committee hearing held a hearing on HB1494 seeking to repeal ban on residential energy shopping in the State of Maryland.
This bill is entitled, “Electricity and Retail Gas Supply – Customer Choice, Consumer Protection, and Green Power (Retail Energy Modernization and Consumer Choice Act”
Video of the hearing is available to view here.
As previously reported among other things this bill would:
(1) repeal existing prohibitions on suppliers offering residential electricity or gas supply for a term longer than 12 months;
(2) exempt a residential electricity supplier’s sale of green power from statutory restrictions that apply to residential electricity supply, which would allow suppliers to offer products that combine electricity supply with emissions-free energy certificates or distributed energy resources;
(3) authorize the offer and use of time-of-use rates and products, including those with a term longer than 12-months and those that include an on-peak rate that exceeds the trailing 12-month average of the utility’s SOS rate; and
(4) specify that a distributed energy resource aggregator that is providing electric distribution support services and is participating in a demand response program may not be limited to acting at the direction of an electric company.
