Instead, it has stalled the growth of Maryland’s renewable energy sector, undermined the transition to fossil-free electricity and funneled billions in public subsidies to out-of-state energy producers with significant consequences for the environment and ratepayers, according to the report from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a national nonprofit.
Timothy Whitehouse, PEER’s executive director, said the RPS program is a “well-known problem in the state that people don’t want to talk about.”
