Maryland’s new Utility RELIEF Act aims to ease high electric bills through immediate rebates and structural grid funding changes, but faces criticism.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — As the clock struck midnight on Monday, marking the end of the 2026 Maryland General Assembly session, lawmakers emerged with a hard-fought deal designed to lower the temperature on Marylanders’ boiling electric bills.
The Utility RELIEF Act (Reducing Energy Load Inflation for Everyday Families) passed in the final hours of “Sine Die,” promising a mixture of immediate rebates and long-term structural changes to how the state’s power grid is funded.
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