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BGE Substation Burns In Gambrills

Posted on 22. Jun, 2010 at 11:47 am by John Frenaye.

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UPDATE 4:08PM 6/22/2010: Third alarm has been sounded and shift commander is calling for available foam units from many jurisdictions. According to our partner WBAL-TV, the BGE substation near Route 3 and Waugh Chapel Road experienced a two alarm fire this morning. The fire reportedly started in an oil filled transformer. County fire crews requested [...]

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BGE Update

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 at 3:13 pm by John Frenaye.

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Almost 4000 Out In County Currently there are more than 9000 BGE customers without power and approximately 3700 in Anne Arundel County. While BGE has been able to restore power to another 3700 customers, they are preparing for the worst and expect more outages as this storm progresses. To see a current list of outages [...]

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SHA Warning

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 at 11:33 am by John Frenaye.

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50 MPH Winds Expected Baltimore City has initiated Phase III of their snow plan which prohibits vehicles other than plows, emergency vehicles, and BGE vehicles from the streets. Additionally, SHA is reporting rapidly deteriorating road conditions and wind gusts up to 50 MPH as snow continues to fall. BGE is reporting 15,000 outages and they [...]

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Storm Update #8: BGE Update Service Restorations

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 at 9:18 am by John Frenaye.

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Most To Be Restored By Monday From BGE: Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), a subsidiary of Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG), today announced it expects to have electric service restored to the vast majority of customers affected by the weekend snowstorm by Monday evening with some restoration activity extending into Tuesday. As of Sunday morning, [...]

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Storm Update #5: BGE Update On Outages

Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 at 4:10 pm by John Frenaye.

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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), a subsidiary of Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG), today announced it has restored electric service to more than 51,000 customers since the winter storm began to impact Central Maryland Friday afternoon. However, the utility expects the number of customers without power to increase steadily as the wet, heavy snow and [...]

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Storm Update #1: BGE Information

Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 at 9:07 am by John Frenaye.

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BGE Working Under Hazardous Conditions Note: As with past storms, in an effort to get information out as fast as possible, we will simply provide the updates as provided to us. From BGE: Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), a subsidiary of Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG), today announced it has restored electric service to more [...]

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Thumbs Up For BGE

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 at 10:59 am by John Frenaye.

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Company Solves Problem Last week, we posted a story about a Catch-22 with BGE where customers who had paid their bill electronically and wanted to switch back to paper billing were unable to do so. The problem seemed ludicrous to us and apparently to Linda Foy, spokesperson for BGE. Linda contacted us and we put [...]

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Yet Another BGE Conundrum

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 at 1:34 pm by John Frenaye.

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Beware Of Online Bill Paying If you thought that customer service at BGE couldn’t get any worse, you lost that bet. We have discovered a horrible Catch-22 with their online bill paying process. If you pay your BGE bill online through your bank and close or change the account, BGE has no method to resume [...]

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BGE Turning Off 70,000

Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 at 8:21 am by John Frenaye.

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BGE Begins Their Turn Off Blitz Baltimore Gas And Electric will be busy for the next few weeks turning off power to the 74,000 Marylanders who have fallen behind on their bills. As a result of regulation wrangling, BGE was required to contact “at risk” accounts and make arrangements to get the past due bills [...]

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BGE Turnoffs To Resume

Posted on 29. Apr, 2009 at 8:06 am by John Frenaye.

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Maryland Utility Told To Offer Payment Plans The State’s Public Service Commission gave BGE the green light to proceed with service terminations of 120,000 Maryland residents who are behind on their bills. However, their order came with some restrictions on the utility as they continue to investigate the abnormally high electric bills. The terms of [...]

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The New BGE Payment Plan

Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 at 12:23 pm by John Frenaye.

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BGE Customers Still Have Reprieve. No Firm Answer From Utility. BGE and the PSC clashed yesterday as they tried to hash out what to do with 208,000 customers who are late on their electric payment. It appeared that the PSC was not too happy with the BGE proposal and sent them back to the drawing [...]

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Some BGE Relief

Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 at 1:11 pm by John Frenaye.

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But not from BGE itself. The Annapolis Anchor has a post about an Energy Assistance Expo taking place April 2, 2009 in Laurel. If you meet certain income requirements and are having problems with the astronomical electric bills, you probably ought to check out this expo. Details and a map can be found on The [...]

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A Fee From BGE? Imagine That!

Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 at 7:41 am by John Frenaye.

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The Capital has a weekly “troubleshooter” column and this week, Elisha Sauers took BGE to task, once again. Apparently, a local customer called to report a power outage in his Annapolis neighborhood. Since he did exactly what BGE suggests you do when your power is out, they decided to charge him $80 for reporting it. [...]

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BGE Complaints Up 100%

Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 at 11:10 am by John Frenaye.

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The Baltimore Spectator is reporting that the Office of External Affairs is hiring two more employees to keep up with the influx of complaints regarding BGE’s billing practices. According to the Baltimore Spectator, an employee of the OEA is quotes as saying, “Our calls are up 100% from this time last year. ” As has [...]