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Commissioners press company on brownfield siting and BGE consultation
Summary
Commissioners told the company they expect engagement with BGE to confirm grid constraints and asked whether brownfield alternatives were considered; the witness said Northern Harford County lacks suitable brownfield industrial sites and that Tenaska will reach out to intervenors like Baltimore City.
Commissioner Suchman said ratepayer money will support the project and pressed Tenaska to show it had married grid-constraint data with brownfield siting opportunities; she said conversations with BGE would help identify constraints and optimal siting. "This is ratepayer money that's gonna be going to your project," Suchman said, and asked whether the company had talked with BGE about constraints that should inform siting decisions.
Mister Latham said the company had prior discussions with BGE and obtained information but that he did not recall specific conversations addressing the precise constraint questions and that northern Harford County lacks brownfield industrial property that could host the proposed scale. Commissioner Linton asked whether Tenaska would now reach out to Baltimore City after it intervened; Latham said the company plans to contact all stakeholders and discuss its proposals.
