Politics & Government
Today: Public Hearing on BGE Reliability in Ellicott City
The state's regulatory agency will be taking comments from residents about experiences with power outages.
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The Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates the state's big utility companies, will be listening to residents at a (Tuesday) in Ellicott City.
The hearing will be held at the George Howard Building, 3430 Court House Dr., from 7 to 10 p.m.
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The PSC is investigating after more than 300 residential customers sent a formal complaint, saying they had faced "chronic reliability problems" with BGE.
BGE had implemented an improvement plan which included trimming trees ahead of its four-year schedule in certain neighborhoods and .
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Despite BGE's remediation, some residents of the petitioning neighborhoods were in the dark -- some for for nearly a week -- after the powerful storm that cut power to more than three quarters of a million Maryland residents.
A full report from the PCS is expected by the end of the year.
The PSC has also scheduled across the state after elected officials wrote in a letter that the utilities needed to improve performance, particularly during severe weather events.
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