Your BGE bill keeps going up. Annapolis just passed a bill that doesn't fix it

The Office of People's Counsel says gas rates have tripled and electric rates nearly doubled since 2012. Annapolis just passed a utility bill that…

Your gas delivery rate has more than tripled since 2010. Your electric delivery rate has nearly doubled. Annapolis just passed a bill that fixes none of it. Pull out your last BGE bill. Look at it. Then pull out one from three years ago, if you still have it. Or any old one you can find. You already know what you are going to see. Here is what the state's own watchdog says The Maryland Office of People's Counsel is the independent state agency whose job is to represent utility customers. They are not a political organization. They are the regulator that exists specifically to push back on rate increases. Here is what they say, on the record, as reported by The Baltimore Banner in January 2026: gas rates have tripled and electric rates have nearly doubled since Exelon acquired BGE in 2012. In that same period, BGE has raised rates ten times. Potomac Edison, the other for profit electric utility in Maryland, has raised rates just twice in twenty five years. Its delivery rate is less than half of BGE's. That is not a coincidence. It is not weather. It is not the war in Ukraine. It is a structural problem with how Maryland regulates a private monopoly. There are three forces driving up your bill. The legislation just passed addresses one narrow piece of one of them. The first force is distribution rate increases. That is what you pay to deliver electricity and gas to your house. BGE files three year rate cases with the Maryland Public Service Commission asking for increases. The PSC, whose commissioners are appointed by the governor, has approved most of them. Distribution rates are nearly double what they were in 2012, per the Office of People's Counsel. The second force is transmission and infrastructure projects. These are the high voltage lines and substation upgrades…