Case No. PC72 - Large Load Customer Regulations and Tariffs Interconnecting to the Electric System Servicing Maryland - Legislative-Style Hearing

Case No. PC72 concerns large load customer regulations and tariffs for customers interconnecting to the electric system serving Maryland. The legislative-style hearing is before the Commission en banc.

En banc legislative-style hearing in Case PC72 concerning large load customer regulations and tariffs interconnecting to the electric system serving Maryland.

En banc legislative-style hearing in Case PC72 concerning large load customer regulations and tariffs interconnecting to the electric system serving Maryland.

Case No. PC72 concerns large load customer regulations and tariffs for customers interconnecting to the electric system serving Maryland. The legislative-style hearing is before the Commission en banc.

The Potomac Edison Company’s application seeks a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to rebuild the Messick Road-Ridgeley 138-kilovolt transmission line in Allegany County, Maryland. The proceeding is an en banc evidentiary hearing.

A contested evidentiary hearing concerning LSE Lumen LLC's application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a 3 MW solar photovoltaic generating facility in Garrett County.

A contested evidentiary hearing on Otterdale Mill Road Md PV LLC's application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a 3.0 MW solar photovoltaic generating facility in Carroll County.

The hearing concerns Idaho Power’s petition to evaluate its Class Cost-of-Service methodology, consider alternative Class Cost-of-Service studies, and determine cost-of-service considerations for new large-load customers. Parties may present proposals, witnesses, testimony, and exhibits, with questions following presentations and witness testimony. The public may listen to or watch the proceedings.

Docket No. 26-2666-01 concerns Corix Utah City Heating and Cooling LLC’s application to establish a thermal tariff, including rates and terms of service. Parties must have their witnesses present and prepared to testify.

Docket 26-035-20 concerns PacifiCorp d/b/a Rocky Mountain Power’s application for approval and report of the sale of the Washington Service Area and an accounting order. Parties must have their witnesses in attendance and prepared to testify. The scheduling order establishes testimony, intervention, and discovery deadlines, and requires parties to supplement discovery responses when new, different, or corrected information becomes available.

Discussions address federal and defense mission resilience, electric grid security, data centers’ growing energy demands, and resilient digital infrastructure. Topics include continuity of operations, mission assurance, grid and transmission planning, data center capacity, site selection, permitting, water and cooling, redundancy, physical hardening, and future-proofing. Sessions include Federal & Defense Mission Digital Resilience; Unleashing the Grid: Securing Power for Mid-Maryland’s Defense Communities; The AI Infrastructure Challenge; and Designing and Delivering Resilient Digital Infrastructure for the DoW. The keynote is by Lucian Niemeyer, former Assistant Secretary of Defense.