Maryland Code, Public Utilities § 7-604

(1) protect consumers from discriminatory, unfair, deceptive, and anticompetitive acts and practices in the marketing, selling, or distributing of natural gas;

(2) provide for contracting, enrollment, and billing practices and procedures; and

(3) the Commission considers necessary to protect the consumer.

(1) provide customers with protections consistent with applicable protections provided to retail electric customers; and

(2) impose appropriate requirements on gas suppliers that are consistent with applicable requirements imposed on electricity suppliers.