City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0198R

• File #: 06-0198R
• Version: 0
• Name: Baltimore Municipal Electric Company - Preliminary Feasibility Study - Funding
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 7/10/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 7/10/2006
• Title: Baltimore Municipal Electric Company - Preliminary Feasibility Study - Funding FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of Finance to identify a funding source to advertise Request For Proposals (RFPs ) for qualified engineering and law firms to perform a preliminary feasibility study of establishing a Baltimore City municipal public power utility.
• Sponsors: President Dixon, President Young, James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Mary Pat Clarke, Paula Johnson Branch, Edward Reisinger, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Helen L. Holton
• Indexes: Funding, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/10/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
7/10/2006	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Dixon, Councilmembers Young, Kraft

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Baltimore Municipal Electric Company - Preliminary Feasibility Study - Funding

FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of Finance to identify a funding source to advertise Request For Proposals (RFPs ) for qualified engineering and law firms to perform a preliminary feasibility study of establishing a Baltimore City municipal public power utility.
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On Wednesday, June 28, 2006, the City Council Committee of the Whole heard testimony on Council Bill 06-0160R- Investigative Hearing - Publicly Owned Municipal Electric Company - for the purpose of exploring, with the expertise of the Departments of Finance and Public Works, the feasibility of developing a publicly owned municipal electric utility to provide service to Baltimore City residents at a more reasonable rate than the expected increased rate that current service providers will offer.

The Department of Finance presented testimony that a study of municipal electric aggregation, the method by which the local government buys electric power on behalf of consumers within their borders, should include: (1) analysis of types of electric purchasing and risk tolerance to consumers; (2) in-depth comparison of aggregation options; (3) study of leverage and cost of adding green energy to purchases; (4) investigation of legal authority; (5)...