Mid-Atlantic Port > Maryland

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita

Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes

Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines

32nd Resources
38th Market
41st Infrastructure

About one-third of Maryland's net electricity generation comes from the state's only nuclear power plant, Calvert Cliffs, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

More than half of the coal mined in western Maryland is used for electric power generation. The state's total coal production is relatively small—less than 1% of the nation’s total.

state-maryland

Production trillion btu

0
Oil
0
Gas
54
Coal
1
Wind
0.77
Solar
6
Hydro
0
Biofuel
142
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-884
+204 Produced
1,088 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

467
Oil
217
Gas
192
Coal
70
Renewable
142
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

MD
$0.48
USA
$0.46

Key Policies

  • Requires that 20% of the state's electricity be generated from renewable energy resources by 2022.

  • Requires motor gasoline blended with ethanol across the populous center of the state, including the urban Baltimore-Washington corridor.

  • Requires permits and compliance bonds for oil and gas well drilling. The permit fee amount is yet to be determined. There is no minimum amount for bonds, but there is a $100,000 maximum.

Electricity net production, trillion btu

-298
9.74¢
MD
8.81¢
USA