Delmarva Power & Light Co. v. Public Service Commission

WILNER, Judge.

We have before us a broad range of issues arising from an order of the Public Service Commission (PSC) that implements, in part, the restructuring and partial deregulation of electric and natural gas utilities in Maryland. Most of the issues presented by the utilities are substantive in nature, testing whether the Commission has the authority to do some of what it did. The only issue that we need address on the merits, however, is whether the PSC order constitutes a regulation, as defined in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and is ineffective for failure to comply with…