Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) Rates and Average Bill

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) reported 1,143,710 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 878 kWh a month on average at 20.19 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 8 Maryland utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, BGE ranks 7 from the lowest price.

Another 76,934 residential customers use BGE for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 7.40 cents per kWh, or $67.96 a month, which does not include the supply price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where BGE has distribution equipment. That covers 9 counties in Maryland. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, BGE reported an average of 65 minutes without power per customer and 0.64 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 102 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

BGE had about 62 fewer minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Maryland figure across its utilities was 80 minutes. One interruption lasting 102 minutes and 0.64 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 65 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under IEEE 1366. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. BGE does not report a residential time-of-use program in its 2025 EIA filing. Ask the utility, because programs change. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 52,062 residential net-metered systems on the BGE grid in 2025, with 411.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

A private company owned by shareholders. A state commission reviews its costs and sets or approves its rates in formal rate cases. In Maryland, that review is done by the Maryland Public Service Commission.

BGE is an investor-owned utility based in Maryland.

BGE operates in the PJM power market. Power markets set wholesale costs, but your retail rate is set by the rules described above.

By residential customers, BGE ranks 1st of the 7 utilities that report homes in Maryland, with about 49.4% of the state's homes. Maryland has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare BGE with its type, so the state average of 19.53 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. At $177.19 a month, an average BGE home pays about $87 a year less than the Maryland average of $184.42, and uses 67 kWh a month less. BGE lists distribution equipment in 9 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 52,062 of its residential customers use net metering, or 42.7 per 1,000 homes, against 49.0 for Maryland as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in Maryland with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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