The company has insisted that last year was an exceptional year. I don't think this (drop in earnings) changes much of their long-term outlook.

You have a company that cannot sell its power and customers who are going to have higher prices to pay. That's the price of shutting down the plant. I hope people are happy they can breathe better, but nothing comes cheaply in energy.

I think that it at least puts this enormous obstacle out of the way. Now that the polemics are over everybody can finally discuss things with less emotion.

Baltimore has always been very sensitive to mild weather. That's a major reason they expanded their non-regulated trading business.

The rise in power prices was much greater than any kind of demand growth could have produced.

It's obviously the right thing to do. Most companies realize the residential class just can not get a rate shock.