Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category
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Switching energy suppliers the easy way
If you’re like most people in Maryland, chances are you haven’t switched your business or home over from your regular power supplier — BGE, Pepco, Delmarva, etc. — to a competitive supplier.
As of the end of August, the Public Service Commission reports that 28.8 percent of the state’s 239,031 commercial and industrial businesses prefer competitive [...] -
Constellation makes its case online
The Maryland Public Service Commission kicked off a week-long round of hearings on Monday over the proposed Constellation Energy - EdF deal. The French power giant wants to buy just shy of 50 percent of the Baltimore company’s nuclear power holdings.
No stranger to the dance, as Constellation’s earlier attempts at a full merger with FPL [...] -
Meet George Jetson
File this under visions of the future.
Life as the cartoon family the Jetsons knew it could be coming to a home near you relatively soon.
That doesn’t mean flying cars or robots that do your laundry, more like a computer that is hooked up to all the circuits in your home, that can turn down your [...] -
Power in numbers
Let’s face it, no matter how “green” you are, if you don’t have the green to pay for solar panels, they’re out of the question.
A California group, recognizing the prohibitive cost of the panels, thought it might be worthwhile to round up some like-minded neighbors to get a group discount. They formed a company, One [...] -
Poll shows support for drilling
If anything is in style right now, it’s definitely being “green.” From Oscar telecasts to office rooftops, everyone’s got the environmental bug.
So I was surprised to find that, in a recent poll of coastal residents from New York through Virginia, most of those surveyed were in favor of offshore energy “exploration.”
The poll, conducted by Monmouth University, found that 46 percent [...] -
Pirates on the Bay?
Pirates could soon find their way to the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. That’s assuming that a liquefied natural gas terminal gets built at Sparrows Point.
The folks over at the LNG Opposition Team have long said that building an LNG plant on the shores of the bay would surely invite terrorists to attack. They say [...] -
Hey, Mayo, Keep the lights on
It’s just a hunch, but my guess is Mayo A. Shattuck III won’t be home tonight.
That probably won’t stop the Power 4 the People Project from holding a candlelight march on the Constellation Energy Group CEO’s Baltimore home to “demand” that the guy stop power shut-offs for customers who are behind on their bills. They’d [...] -
Want to save money and energy? Flip the switch.
Be honest here: Do you turn off your computer when you leave work for the day? Most of you probably don’t. It’s not your energy bill, right? I have a few coworkers who seem to think shutting down their system is an annual occasion.
Well, now’s the time to start doing it regularly: as companies cut [...] -
Energy efficiency for the masses
If new legislation proposed by U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen passes, homeowners would be able to access up to $10,000 in interest-free loans to make their homes more energy efficient.
Van Hollen’s plan may have a clunky title — the National Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund Act — but it would allow local governments to loan [...] -
“I should not have brought my individual problem to this hearing”
At a Thursday Public Service Commission hearing, commissioners were looking to get information about why customer bills have skyrocketed this winter and how to keep customers from falling behind on their payments.
Before the hearing began, Chairman Douglas R.M. Nazarian mentioned that the hearing was for utilities and advocacy groups to discuss the problem and suggest [...]