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Utilities Committee
Current Issues
When available, links are provided to documents that can be accessed on this or another website.  To use a
link, simply click on the underlined item.
  • On April 20, 2011, the county's Pepco Work Group released its final report (click to view the
county government's "Pepco Reliability" webpage with access to the Work Group Report and recent
history of county interactions with Pepco)

  • Legislation HB391/SB692--Maryland Electricity Service Quality and Reliability Act--introduced
in Maryland General Assembly.  Bills require the Public Service Commission (PSC) to set electricity
standards for frequency of outages and outage duration and would apply to all major electric
distribution companies operating in Maryland. Strongly suggest that national measures be used
and specifies that the policy of the state would be that the standard must be in the fourth (or
highest) quartile of electric companies nationally. The bills require the standards be adopted by
July 2012 (or 2013 in Senate bill) and that PSC determine by July 2013 whether the standards are
being met. Requires a penalty if standards not met, which can’t be passed onto the ratepayer.  
Funds collected under penalty would be returned to affected ratepayers. (see "Legislation
Committee Current Issues" page on this website)

  • A 2/22/11 press release noted that on 2/17/11 the County responded to the Public Service
Commission's proposed revision of the State regulation regarding the reliability and quality of
service provided by electric companies (click to view press release or to view full text of 2/17/11
County comments to PSC)