BUSINESS
By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun | May 17, 2013
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. asked Friday for another rate increase, three months after winning approval for higher charges, and company officials said they expect to seek more in the future. It's the third time in as many years that BGE has requested higher distribution rates. If approved, the typical residential customer getting both electricity and gas would pay about $72 more a year for distribution. Company officials said they expect to ask for frequent rate increases as they seek reimbursement for more aggressive tree-trimming, infrastructure upgrades and other work aimed at improving service.
NEWS
By From staff reports | August 17, 1998
EASTPOINT -- Some Eastpoint residents were evacuated from their homes last night after a Baltimore County public works crew digging in the area broke a natural gas line, said a spokeswoman for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.Jessica Brown, the BGE spokeswoman, said the crew was doing excavation work in the 800 block of Jaydee Ave. about 7: 30 p.m. when equipment lifted a section of a 1 1/4 -inch gas line, which broke and began to leak.As a safety precaution, Brown said, about 40 residents were evacuated from their homes while BGE emergency crews repaired the line.
BUSINESS
By Kim Clark | January 19, 1991
Double-punched by nuclear repair costs and a weakening real estate market, Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.'s profits fell by more than $14 million, or one-third of last year's level, in the last three months of 1990, the company reported yesterday.For the year, BG&E reported its earnings fell to $213 million, down $63 million, or 23 percent, from 1989's level.Warm weather and lower prices cut natural gas sales, leaving the total revenues for the quarter down slightly, the company said. For the year, revenues grew $155 million, or 7.7 percent, to more than $2.1 billion.
NEWS
March 30, 2006
Lewis Addison Beck, a retired Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. lawyer who loved the sea and ships, died of heart failure March 23 at the Rodgers Forge home of a goddaughter. The former Roland Park resident was 96. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Beck lived in the same Victorian-era home on Oakdale Road from 1912 until 2002, when he moved to Roland Park Place. Since last year, he had lived with Elizabeth B.G. Renwick, a goddaughter. Mr. Beck went to sea at age 13 when he signed on a ship for a voyage from Baltimore to Cuba.
NEWS
By Laurie Willis and Laurie Willis,SUN STAFF | July 26, 2003
Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., accustomed to raking in checks each month as customers pay utility bills, may soon be handing out checks instead. And the payments probably can't come soon enough for the recipients - 25 homeowners in Northeast Baltimore whose electrical appliances were damaged or destroyed July 17 as workers installed a utility pole in the 5000 block of Crosswood Ave. "As we were working to replace the pole that needed to be replaced, another...
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen | March 27, 2008
Roy E. Braly, a retired Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. engineer and decorated World War II bomber pilot, died Sunday of complications from an infection at the Augsburg Lutheran Home and Village in Arbutus. He was 88. Mr. Braly, the son of an airport owner, was born and raised in Spring Lake, N.J. He was a graduate of Asbury Park High School in New Jersey. His interest in flying began when he was a youngster. "One time, he flew with Amelia Earhart from his father's airport to see the arrival of the Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station," said his wife of 12 years, the former Jeanne Macon.