http://netvouz.com/garoldstone/tag/bge?feed=rss garoldstone's bookmarks tagged "bge" on Netvouz http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=598&sid=1148567 BALTIMORE (AP) - State officials reluctantly approved a 50 percent rate increase Wednesday for the 1.1 million residential customers of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., saying they had "little legal option" to defer or reduce the utility company's proposal. The increase goes into effect next Friday. Customers will have until June 30 to elect to defer a portion of the increase until January, when market rates will kick in. May 24, 2007 garoldstone Sun, 27 May 2007 18:27:53 GMT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/harford/bal-id.tyler25jun25,0,3840442.story?coll=bal-local-headlines The city became involved in April when low-income Baltimore customers on BGE’s budget-billing program began to see the 72 percent rate increase. June 25, 2006 garoldstone Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:39:51 GMT http://southlaurel.blogspot.com/2007/05/bge-rate-stabilization-june-2007.html Go here for the gory details and to see the choices we all have to make by June 30, 2007. There are also links to related news and analysis (updated quixotically) garoldstone Sun, 27 May 2007 18:34:15 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102500431.html The marriage of Constellation Energy and F-P-L Group is off. In a joint news release this morning, the companies say they reached a "joint and amicable agreement" to terminate their planned merger. Oct 25, 2006 garoldstone Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:09:41 GMT http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html At 13.65 ckwh, Constellation/BGE Prices trump prices paid in the other states of the South Atlantic region. Constellation/BGE is second only to New York on electricity prices. July 11, 2007 garoldstone Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:42:48 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR2007073001881.html The first application to build a new U.S. nuclear power plant in three decades has been filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, bumping a proposed third unit at a Calvert County site to the front of a list of reactors being considered by the nuclear power industry. July 31, 2007 garoldstone Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:36:41 GMT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.rates21jun21,0,5332637.story?coll=bal-home-headlines Baltimore City Solicitor Ralph S. Tyler, who argued the lawsuit on behalf of O’Malley, a Democratic candidate for governor, said that the PSC must be replaced because it failed in its duties to investigate the rate increase and allowed rates to go up for budget-billing customers before caps expired. June 21, 2006 garoldstone Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:41:23 GMT