Marylanders Deserve Accountability on Skyrocketing Power Bills
Another hot summer has brought another round of painful BGE bills. As Delegate Jeffrie Long Jr. writes in the Southern Maryland News, the real reason bills keep climbing isn’t the cost of power generation — those costs have actually gone down over time. The problem is monopoly utilities like BGE, owned by Exelon, gaming the system.
Utilities are guaranteed profits on every dollar they spend, no matter how useful the project is for customers. That means questionable spending gets passed on to you, while Wall Street investors reap steady returns. Meanwhile, Exelon pulled in more than $5 billion last quarter as Maryland families struggled to pay for basic electricity.
Delegate Long is right: Annapolis must step up with real oversight and demand transparency so ratepayers stop footing the bill for Exelon’s gold-plating schemes.
👉 Read his full letter here: Delegate says state needs to address high energy bills – Southern Maryland News
