Maryland People’s Counsel asks PSC to probe BGE spending on Baltimore Peninsula

Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel filed a formal petition on Feb. 24 asking the Maryland Public Service Commission to open an investigatory docket into Baltimore Gas & Electric’s planned capital spending on the Baltimore Peninsula. The petition specifically targets a set of transmission and distribution projects that BGE has designated for the peninsula.

The filing names Baltimore Gas & Electric as the utility whose capital expenditure plans are under scrutiny and requests that the Public Service Commission evaluate those plans through a dedicated investigatory docket. Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel submitted the petition as a formal regulatory request to the PSC on Feb. 24, 2026.

The petition centers on planned capital spending on the Baltimore Peninsula, a geographic area that BGE has identified for transmission and distribution work. Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel framed its filing as a request for the PSC to open an inquiry that would examine the scope, justification, and regulatory treatment of those planned investments.

With the petition officially on the PSC’s desk as of Feb. 24, the next procedural step is whether the Maryland Public Service Commission will grant the request to open an investigatory docket. The petition leaves in place the regulatory question of how the PSC will vet BGE’s capital spending proposals for the peninsula and whether the commission will set a schedule for hearings or evidence gathering.

Baltimore Gas & Electric is the named utility in the petition; Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel is the petitioner asking the PSC for a formal investigatory process focused on transmission and distribution spending on the Baltimore Peninsula. The petition and any PSC response will determine whether those planned capital projects move forward under routine review or become the subject of a formal investigatory docket that could reshape oversight of the peninsula work.