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BGE, seeking rate increase, to make case to regulators
Hearings begin Monday in a case that will decide whether Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers can expect higher distribution charges next year. BGE is asking for increases that would come to about $6.62 a month for the typical residential electric...
Tags: Prices, St. Paul Street, Energy, Government, Civil and Public Service
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BGE investigating cause of Annapolis-area outage
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. workers continued to investigate what caused high-voltage lines to go down outside the city of Annapolis, putting on a light show Thursday night before plunging more than 55,000 customers into darkness. Electricity was...Tags: Anne Arundel Medical Center, Water Supply, Annapolis
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Power restored in Arundel after BGE transmission lines blow
Power has been restored to Annapolis homes and businesses and other nearby parts of Anne Arundel County after Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. reported a disruption to two main lines servicing the area Thursday night. Off-duty city police officers were...
Tags: Keith Hamilton, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Josh Cohen, Hospitals and Clinics, Sports Illustrated
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Violent weather system could spawn blizzard in Western Md., damaging winds in Baltimore
A strong low-pressure system causing blizzards across the Midwest is forecast to bring potential white-out conditions in Western Maryland and damaging winds across the Baltimore area Friday and Saturday.
Heavy snow combined with strong winds could create...Tags: Baltimore Weather, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Garrett County, Snow Storms, Allegany County
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High wind watch issued across Central Maryland; BGE warns of outages
Central Maryland is under a high wind watch starting Saturday morning, with gusts expected to reach 60 mph during the day. The forecast prompted utility Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. to warn of possible power outages. Rain is forecast to usher in the...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Weather, Weather Reports, Snow Storms, Garrett County
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East Monument Street reopens after $7 million sinkhole repair
City officials on Wednesday removed orange construction cones and barrels from two blocks of East Monument Street that had been swallowed by a huge sinkhole this summer, unveiled an "Open for Business" sign on a lamppost and marked the end of a five-...
Tags: Catonsville, Charles Street, Aaliyah, Sinkholes, Fells Point
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Shopping for electricity just a PointClickSwitch away
Whenever Allyn Simon thought she needed to get a better deal on her electricity bill, she would visit various Maryland energy suppliers' websites, take notes and sometimes call customer service. The process could take hours. But the 56-year-old North...
Tags: Energy, Baltimore Development Corporation, Consumers, Civil and Public Service, Government
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Sandy tests Md. emergency preparations
Baltimore emergency officials expected devastation on par with Hurricane Katrina. Expecting Hurricane Sandy to knock out communications, they coordinated with local radio to broadcast public safety information and planned a "carrier pigeon" network that...
Tags: Government, Media Industry, Entertainment, U.S. Army, Radio
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No simple fix for power outages as state tackles grid reliability
Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration launched an effort Tuesday to limit the extended power outages that have troubled Marylanders in recent months, but industry experts warned that any solution could require significant costs and trade-offs. Montgomery...Tags: Conservation, Government, Civil and Public Service, Martin O'Malley, Politics
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Court gives Sparrows Point mill more time to find a buyer
The Sparrows Point steel mill will have more time to find buyers — two to four weeks extra — under an agreement hammered out Thursday in the bankruptcy case.
Owner RG Steel's unsecured creditors had contended that the July 27 deadline to...Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, Auction Service, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Lakshmi Mittal
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BGE will seek distribution rate increase
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. plans to ask Maryland regulators later this year to allow it to raise rates for the distribution of electricity and natural gas, Chicago-based Exelon Corp., the utility's new owner, said Thursday.
Exelon executives told...Tags: Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Constellation Energy Group, Government, Job Layoffs
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12 city employees caught stealing scrap metal, officials say
A dozen city Department of Transportation employees may be fired after they were accused of stealing nearly $60,000 in scrap metal, city officials said Friday. An investigation by the city's inspector general estimated the employees were earning about...Tags: Theft
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