Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB1035: Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio
Status: Chaptered, May 20, 2025
Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nuclear energy generation stations; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Public Utilities - Electricity Generation Planning - Procurement, Permitting, and Co-Location Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act) FOR the purpose of authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings…
From the enrolled text, June 4, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Public Utilities - Electricity Generation Planning - Procurement, Permitting, and Co-Location Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act) FOR the purpose of authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nuclear energy generating stations; expanding the sources of savings that the Department of Housing and Community Development may procure and provide when calculating the achievement of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; requiring certain public service companies to demonstrate to the Commission the reasonableness of the use of certain labor in a base rate proceeding; altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects; requiring that the plan meet certain requirements for a gas company to recover certain costs; altering the required findings of the Commission in considering whether to approve a certain infrastructure replacement plan; authorizing the Commission to …