Maryland RPS

MD: On April 24, 2007, Governor Martin O’Malley signed Senate Bill 595, which expanded Maryland’s existing renewable portfolio standard to require that 2 percent of the state’s electricity supply come from solar sources by 2022, in addition to 7.5 percent from other renewable sources by the same date.  Sources of energy that count toward the standard include wind, qualifying biomass, methane from the anaerobic decomposition of organic materials in a landfill or wastewater treatment plant, geothermal, ocean, including energy from waves, tides, currents, and thermal differences, a fuel cell that produces electricity from qualifying biomass or methane, and small hydroelectric power plants.

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SB 595