BGE customers would bear unfair costs to extend power plants’ life, opponents argue

When the owner of two fossil-fuel-burning power plants in Anne Arundel County filed surprise plans last year to close them by mid-2025, the operator of the regional electric grid determined they needed to stay open until at least 2028 to ensure a reliable supply of electricity across Maryland. But a plan submitted by the owner of the Brandon Shores and H.A. Wagner power plants to keep them open would unfairly burden customers of Baltimore Gas and Electric and other state utilities, argue opponents including the state agency representing ratepayers, state utility regulators and at least one of those utilities.