Gas Utility Spending Report

 

Maryland Gas Utility Spending: Projections and Analysis (February 2025)

OPC’s 2025 report, prepared by the consulting firm DHInfrastructure, provides critical information on current and future spending to maintain and expand the gas delivery system—the pipes, concrete, computers, and other infrastructure that make up the local distribution system. It also provides important information about future gas bills in the absence of reversals in current practices, in particular the Strategic Infrastructure Development and Enhancement Plan that promotes gas infrastructure replacements and accelerates utility cost recovery. The data relied on is publicly available information from utility reports and regulatory filings. While actual utility rates depend on many decisions yet to be made, the report provides numerous data and general projections that reflect business continuing as usual, without significant deviations in State policy, customer behavior, or utility practices, will result in continuing and substantial customer bill increases.

Topics covered in the report include, among others:

Gas utility capital spending projections

Current spending data

Customer utility bill projections

To download the full report, click here.

To download the Executive Summary, click here.

To download a summary of key findings, click here.

To download OPC’s Press Release, click here.

To learn more about the STRIDE gas replacement infrastructure program, including its connection to gas pipe safety, click here

For information about how the price of gas may affect your gas bill this winter, click here.

To read David S. Lapp's op-ed on these issues:

  • How Infrastructure spending increases customer bills, in the Baltimore Sun, click here from 2025 & click here from 2021.
  • The impacts on low-income customers co-authored with Attorney General Anthony Brown, in the Baltimore Sun, click here.
  • The need for State intervention and better utility regulation, in Maryland Matters, click here.

To read OPC's report on "Climate Policy for Maryland's Gas Utilities: Financial Implications," click here.