Marylanders Could Face Blackouts This Summer — Thank the Green Agenda and Grid Mismanagement
Marylanders might want to invest in candles and battery packs this summer. PJM Interconnection—the regional power grid operator serving 65 million people across the Mid-Atlantic—has issued a stark warning: rolling blackouts are possible during periods of peak demand.
While mainstream outlets chalk it up to heatwaves and demand surges, the truth runs deeper—and more political.
This isn’t about the weather. It’s about years of reckless energy policy, forced retirements of dependable power plants, and a blind rush toward so-called “green” alternatives that can’t meet real-world needs. As Maryland follows California’s lead in shuttering fossil fuel facilities and betting big on unreliable renewables, the risk of “controlled outages” is no longer theoretical—it’s imminent.
Grid Reliability Undermined by Ideology
PJM, which oversees electricity flow in 13 states including Maryland, now admits the system is strained. Why? Because the same political class that talks endlessly about equity and climate justice has spent the last decade dismantling the very infrastructure that kept the lights on.
Natural gas, coal, and even nuclear energy—once pillars of American energy independence—have been sidelined in favor of wind turbines and solar farms that collapse under extreme weather. Meanwhile, Washington and Annapolis continue to push mandates that worsen the problem, all while patting themselves on the back for “climate leadership.”
Ironically, Maryland’s transition to 100% clean electricity by 2035 may be the very reason working families face dark homes and dead air conditioners in 2025.
The MPRP Mirage: Who Really Benefits?
At the center of this crisis is the Maryland-Pennsylvania Reliability Project (MPRP)—a billion-dollar high-voltage transmission line project backed by PJM and corporate energy firms. Marketed as a solution to grid instability, the MPRP has been sold to the public as a fix to prevent scenarios like this summer’s blackout warning.
But let’s call it what it is: a Wall Street energy pipeline masquerading as public infrastructure.
The MPRP isn’t about helping Marylanders. It’s about helping power traders move electricity across state lines to juice profits in deregulated markets. The project does nothing to strengthen local reliability in Baltimore or Bel Air. It doesn’t install backup batteries, upgrade substations, or harden neighborhood grids. And it certainly won’t be operational in time to stop the blackouts looming this summer.
So who pays the price? You do—through higher rates, more land seizures, and fewer answers when the power goes out.
Maryland’s Energy Blindspot: No Accountability, No Backup Plan
This is what happens when unelected bureaucrats and green special interests dictate energy policy instead of engineers and everyday ratepayers. The same officials who couldn’t balance the state budget now want you to trust them with your thermostat.
While PJM vaguely warns of “resource adequacy concerns,” they fail to admit this crisis is largely manufactured by policy—not nature. We didn’t have rolling blackout warnings when power plants were powered by things that worked. But now, with more EV mandates, electrified heating, and unreliable grid inputs, PJM is quietly preparing to cut off neighborhoods to avoid a full system collapse.
And what’s the state’s plan? Tell you to conserve, suffer silently, and hope it’s not your zip code that gets rotated off the map.
A Better Way Forward: Energy Realism, Not Fantasy
Marylanders deserve better than this fragile, politicized energy regime. We need an “all-of-the-above” energy policy that prioritizes reliability first, not slogans. That means keeping clean natural gas online, reinvesting in nuclear, exploring modern clean coal, and demanding transparency from grid operators and energy speculators.
If Annapolis wants to be serious about the future, it needs to stop playing climate roulette with people’s livelihoods. Energy policy shouldn’t be a game of political virtue signaling—it should be about keeping families safe, businesses open, and our state powered.
Because when the lights go out this summer, remember this: it wasn’t the sun or the heat that failed you. It was the people who told you green dreams could replace common sense.
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