Lawmakers searching for methods to improve consumers? energy habits

The long-term solution to rising energy costs will be to change consumer habits, according to regulators and lawmakers who attended a briefing on state energy regulation Tuesday in Annapolis.

“We want to give the Public Service Commission and the People?s Counsel as many tools as possible to deal with market forces,” said Del. Dereck Davis, D-Prince George?s, who chairs the committee handling energy regulation bills. “But I think some people expect us to turn back the clock.”