Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB1036: Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)
Status: Chaptered, May 20, 2025
Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to develop and submit to the Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) FOR the purpose of altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system…
From the enrolled text, June 3, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) FOR the purpose of altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by a certain date, to develop and submit to the Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; establishing certain requirements for the construction of a certain solar energy generating station or front-of-the-meter energy storage device; prohibiting a local jurisdiction from adopting certain laws or regulations or denying certain site development plans under certain circumstances; requiring a local government to expedite the review and approval of certain site development plans under certain circumstances; authorizing a local government to establish a certain community solar energy generating system automatic enrollment program under certain circumstances; establishing certain requirements for the sale, lease, and installation of certain residential rooftop solar energy generating systems; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to develop a special solar contractor license; requiring the Commission to conduct a certain study to establish a process by which the Commission may establish certain partnerships procurement models; and generally relating to …