Potomac Edison Electric Rates and Average Monthly Bill Guide

Potomac Edison reported 390,653 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,165 kWh a month on average at 14.55 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, Potomac Edison ranks 3 from the lowest price.

Another 5,940 residential customers use Potomac Edison for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 4.08 cents per kWh, or $52.02 a month, which does not include the supply price.

Figures cover all of Potomac Edison's states together. A utility with a large territory can have different rates in different places.

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 Potomac Edison has distribution equipment. That covers 15 counties in Maryland, West Virginia. 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, Potomac Edison reported an average of 249 minutes without power per customer and 1.63 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 153 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Potomac Edison had about 122 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The Maryland figure across its utilities was 80 minutes. One interruption lasting 153 minutes and 1.63 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 249 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. Potomac Edison reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 2,201 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 10,224 residential net-metered systems on the Potomac Edison grid in 2025, with 96.3 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.

Potomac Edison is an investor-owned utility based in Maryland, and it also reports customers in 1 other state.

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

Maryland has 7 utilities with residential customers in the 2025 EIA data. Potomac Edison is 3rd by size and serves about 10.5% of the state's homes. Maryland has too few other investor-owned utilities with reported prices to compare Potomac Edison with its type, so the state average of 19.53 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. Over a year, the typical Potomac Edison bill runs about $180 below the state average, with monthly use 220 kWh higher. Potomac Edison reports customers in 2 states, and this profile uses its largest, Maryland, for comparisons. 10,224 of its residential customers use net metering, or 25.8 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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