By Todd Snitchler, President and CEO, EPSA for Maryland Daily Record
Published in Maryland Daily Record on November. 28, 2025
Exelon Corp., owner of three electric utilities in Maryland, recently announced it is seeking legislative approval to build power plants in the state, marking the first time a utility would do so in nearly 30 years. With electricity demand on the rise for the first time in nearly two decades, Exelon sees dollar signs and an opportunity to wind the clock back to the days of a full monopoly utility system that owns and operates all parts of the power grid: generation, transmission, and distribution.
Before Maryland adopted a competitive power market in the 1990s, monopoly utilities owned and operated all the power infrastructure, relying on state regulators to keep utility rates and expenditures balanced and verified.
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