Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. on Thursday defended its plan to pay for its smart grid program with some form of surcharge passed on to customers, and intimated that it might walk away from the project without one.
After rejecting BGE’s first plan in June, the Public Service Commission began two days of hearings about the utility’s revised smart grid plan, which includes installing meters in customers’ homes that transmit usage and outage information along with other data. The PSC’s action threatened a $200 million federal stimulus grant attached to the project. BGE amended its initial plan to allay the PSC’s concerns.
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