How Will Maryland Meet Its Future Energy Needs?

Host Jason Michael Perry moderated a live panel for the World Trade Center Institute’s AGILE Global Innovation Series, exploring the constraint quietly shaping Maryland’s future: energy capacity.

As Maryland positions itself as a hub for emerging technologies, demand from data centers, electric vehicles, and an increasingly digital economy is rising faster than in-state power generation can keep up. This session explores what the state’s future energy mix must look like to support growth, reliability, and competitiveness, examining the role of renewables, the current limits of the Maryland grid, PJM’s regional challenges, and the power needs of next-generation infrastructure, including data centers and quantum computing.

Jason is joined by three leaders shaping how Maryland meets that challenge:

Lindsay North, Director of Clean Energy Strategy at Exelon; Jason Stanek, Executive Director of Governmental Services at PJM Interconnection; and Adam Ortiz, Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment.

They break down where Maryland’s power actually comes from, why the state imports a significant share of its electricity from the regional grid, and what’s driving the sharp rise in demand. The conversation covers the tension between clean energy goals and grid reliability, the real cost pressures showing up on ratepayers’ bills, and what infrastructure, new generation, and new transmission need to get built, and how fast.

The panel takes a grounded look at one of the most consequential, and least understood, questions facing the state right now.

Podcast Notes & Links:

• WTCI AGILE Global Innovation Series
• Lindsay North, Director of Clean Energy Strategy at Exelon
• Jason Stanek, Executive Director of Governmental Services at PJM Interconnection
• Adam Ortiz, Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment

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Credits

Special thanks to the team at the World Trade Center Institute. Thanks to the team at WYPR, producer Sam Bermas-Dawes, and Myrna Martinez, Head of Operations and Marketing at PerryLabs.