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Cox Demands Transparency on Soaring Electric Bills, Files MPIA Requests to Moore Administration

By MDBayNews Staff ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox announced Thursday that he has filed...

Staff Writer
February 27, 2026

Buried Infrastructure, Exploding Homes, and the Energy Blind Spot Maryland Won’t Fix

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When energy debates flare up in Maryland, they tend to center on climate targets, renewable...

Michael Phillips
February 19, 2026

Could the Indian River Power Plant Come Back? What It Would Mean for Maryland

By MDBayNews Staff Talk of reviving the Indian River Power Plant in Sussex County, Delaware, has quietly resurfaced — and...

Michael Phillips
February 17, 2026

SCRIPTED. STAGED. SANITIZED.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Moore’s Town Hall Wasn’t a Town Hall — It Was a Production When Gov. Wes Moore...

Michael Phillips
February 16, 2026

Rolling Blackouts by Another Name: Maryland’s Energy Reckoning Arrives

By MDBayNews Staff Marylanders are being gently introduced to an unpleasant reality: “load shedding” is just rolling...

Michael Phillips
January 27, 2026

Opinion: Maryland’s Utility Shock Isn’t a Market Failure — It’s a Regulatory One

By MDBayNews Staff Marylanders are being told—again—that their soaring BGE bills are the unavoidable result of markets,...

Michael Phillips
January 18, 2026

Why Your BGE Bill Spiked in Early 2026 — And Why Annapolis Can’t Pretend It Was a Surprise

By MDBayNews Staff Maryland households — especially across Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and central Maryland — are...

Michael Phillips
January 17, 2026

Maryland Freedom Caucus to Host Multi-State Energy Hearing in Annapolis

Annapolis, MD — The Maryland Freedom Caucus will convene lawmakers, energy experts, and grid operators on Friday for the...

Michael Phillips
January 15, 2026

Maryland Weighs Statewide Oversight as Data Center Boom Tests Grid, Communities

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing surges, Maryland is confronting a...

Michael Phillips
January 7, 2026

Maryland’s Data Center Moment: Growth, Grid Limits, and the Fight for Balance

By Michael Phillips | Tech Bay News | MDBayNews Maryland is no data center giant—but it is no longer an afterthought. As...

Michael Phillips
January 4, 2026

The Data Center Boom’s Hidden Costs—and Maryland’s Regulatory Blind Spots

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland has quietly become a frontline state in America’s exploding data center economy....

Michael Phillips
December 30, 2025

Maryland Freedom Caucus Leads Charge Against Costly Green Policies with Regional Energy Coalition

ANNAPOLIS, MD — The Maryland Freedom Caucus announced a bold new initiative Wednesday, launching a multi-state coalition...

Michael Phillips
October 23, 2025

Wes Moore’s Green Gamble: Maryland Ratepayers Left Holding the Bag

Maryland Governor Wes Moore has spent the better part of his tenure boasting about a “bold” green energy agenda—one...

Michael Phillips
August 18, 2025

Wes Moore’s Energy Illusion: How Maryland Became Dependent on Its Neighbors

By Michael Phillips Maryland Governor Wes Moore has spent the better part of his term basking in the glow of progressive...

Michael Phillips
June 24, 2025

The Green Lie: How Corporations Are Bulldozing Maryland Under the Banner of Climate Progress

Part of The New Land Wars series They call it clean energy.But there’s nothing clean about bulldozing forests, slicing...

Michael Phillips
May 10, 2025

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