On June 10, 2025, the Baltimore Sun quoted Max Curran on the progress of the 67-mile Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project powerline that energy company PSEG has been working on. According to the article, the Maryland Public Service Commission is considering a timeline to grant or deny the project.
“A timeline is needed,” Curran explained, “so that the powerline project can be online, providing power by June 2027.” As of now, the Public Service Commission has not provided a timeline, but shared their intention to do so soon.
PSEG has taken steps to survey some of the land that would be impacted by the project. Curran shared that these “surveys are not required by law and would only serve to validate data PSEG has already received from state agencies.”
“Despite the fact that [the Code of Maryland Regulations] does not require a field study, we have every intent, through the discovery process in this case, to pursue those field surveys,” Curran noted. “When and if we are provided access, we will provide that information to [the PowerPlant Research Program] and to the other parties.”
Curran also spoke to the validity of the project. “It is our burden,” Curran said. “We intend to meet it. We intend to meet it with the testimony that we have already filed and are happy to support that with additional survey information.”
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