Appointed by Governor: Kimberly M. Armstrong; Imani Black; Charles Coggeshall; Elizabeth Cusack; Bryan Hacker; Stephanie Elise Johnson.
Appointed by Senate President: Benjamin T. Brooks, Sr.; Sarah K. Elfreth.
Appointed by House Speaker: David Fraser-Hidalgo; Melissa R. Wells.
Appointed by People's Counsel: Jacob M. Ouslander, Esq.
Representing Maryland Association of Counties: Andrea L. Crooms; Jeremy D. Goldman; Robert F. Sandlass, Jr.
Representing Maryland Municipal League: Justin Fiore
Representing Maryland State & DC AFL-CIO: Donna S. Edwards; Michael McHale.
Representing Associated Builders & Contractors of Maryland: Thomas Gaines
Representing Maryland Minority Contractors Association: one vacancy
Ex officio: Jonathan W. Glaser, designee of Director, State Department of Assessments & Taxation; Paul G. Pinsky, Director, Maryland Energy Administration; Brett L. Sproul, designee of Chair, Public Service Commission.
c/o Maryland Energy Administration
Montgomery Park Business Center, 1800 Washington Blvd., Suite 755, Baltimore, MD 21230
(410) 537-4000; 1-800-72ENERGY (toll free); fax: (410) 537-4096
e-mail: landon.fahrig@maryland.gov
web: http://energy.maryland.gov/solartaskforce.aspx
Montgomery Park Business Center, 1800 Washington Blvd., Baltimore, Maryland, February 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
In July 2023, the General Assembly formed the Task Force to Study Solar Incentives (Chapter 545, Acts of 2023).
The Task Force charge was to study financial incentives affecting the State’s ability to meet solar energy goals established in the State’s renewable energy portfolio standard, including the impact of solar grant programs, tax credits and exemptions, classification of solar energy property for assessment purposes, and solar renewable energy credits. It also was to evaluate the impact of federal solar energy incentives and how to maximize their benefit in Maryland. Moreover, the Task Force was to consider how the solar alternative compliance fee is calculated and its market relationship to the value of solar renewable energy credits; and whether different levels or types of incentives should be used for different kinds of solar development.
Task Force recommendations needed to ensure that solar energy goals established in the State’s renewable energy portfolio standard were met; minority business enterprises participated in solar development; and good jobs with training were part of the solar development process for communities where solar development is occurring. Recommendations were to provide further for equitable access to renewable energy in Maryland; and efficient use of land in the State by maximizing the production of solar energy on previously developed property, including rooftops, parking canopies, and brownfields sites.
Authorization for the Task Force ended June 30, 2024.
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