Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB1037: Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act
Status: Vetoed, December 16, 2025
Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the Risk Report to assess wholesale energy market financial resource adequacy and reliability risks and to identify any necessary cost-effective solutions that ensure electric system reliability while meeting the State's energy policy goals; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act FOR the purpose of establishing the Integrated Resource Strategic Energy Planning Office in the Public Service Commission; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Energy Forecast and conduct a certain study Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Forecast; requiring the Office, in consultation with the Commission and the Maryland Energy Administration, to complete certain energy modeling…
From the enrolled text, December 18, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act FOR the purpose of establishing the Integrated Resource Strategic Energy Planning Office in the Public Service Commission; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Energy Forecast and conduct a certain study Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Forecast; requiring the Office, in consultation with the Commission and the Maryland Energy Administration, to complete certain energy modeling; requiring the Commission, in consultation with the Office, to adopt regulations requiring each electric company to develop a certain integrated resource plan Risk Report; requiring the Office to conduct certain stakeholder processes; requiring the Office to provide certain information to certain persons under certain circumstances; requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct a certain public proceeding; requiring the Commission and the Department of Transportation to complete certain studies; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to obtain or develop certain power flow analyses; and generally relating to the Integrated Resource Strategic Energy Planning Office and energy resource planning. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Public Utilities Section 2-110 and 2-110.1 Annotated Code of Maryland (2020 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) BY adding to Article - Public Utilities Section 7-1201 through 7-1206 7-1207 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 12. Integrated Resource …