• Malcolm Woolf, who directs the Maryland Energy Administration, says states need to have some say in how regional transmission organizations operate.
• Woolf, who's agency's mission is "to maximize energy efficiency while promoting economic development, reducing reliance on foreign energy supplies, and improving the environment," is playing with a weak hand in the wake of deregulation that led to the creation of RTOs that answer to Washington.
• Woolf told a joint meeting of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, the National Association of State Energy Officers, and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners that Maryland "is at the mercy of PJM" (the regional operator that includes Maryland).

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Regional transmission organizations (RTOs) must be more transparent in their operations and accountable to the states where they operate, says Malcolm Woolf, Director of the Maryland Energy Administration. ...