The Exelon Building in Baltimore’s Harbor Point. Exelon, which owns three utilities in Maryland, is beginning its public campaign to build and operate power generation in the state, which would upend decades of utility regulation. (Photo by Christine Condon/ Maryland Matters)
Next year in Annapolis, the Exelon Corp., owner of three electric utilities in Maryland, plans to push for legislative approval to build and operate a power plant in the state, company officials say.
That would be a dramatic reversal of a 26-year-old utility deregulation policy that, in part, forced utilities that operate power lines and other transmission infrastructure to get out of the power generation business…