February 28th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Energy costs in Maryland are higher than the national average. Top Democratic leaders in the Maryland General Assembly say that building more dispatchable power plants that can be turned on and off as needed would help solve the issue, but environmentalists aren’t convinced. Mike Tidwell with Chesapeake Climate Action points out that Maryland had a goal of net zero emissions and a natural gas plant would push the state farther from that goal…

   

“We’ve steadily been moving in the right direction with wind power, with solar, with energy efficiency. Building new gas plants with sea level rise affecting downtown Annapolis is just tragically bad public policy.”