Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative Rates and Bills Guide

Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative reported 162,860 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 1,171 kWh a month on average at 16.43 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, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative ranks 4 from the lowest price.

Another 591 residential customers use Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative for delivery only and buy their energy from a different supplier. EIA reports their delivery revenue at about 6.17 cents per kWh, or $56.06 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 Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 4 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, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative reported an average of 118 minutes without power per customer and 1.26 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 93 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative sits close to the median state on outage minutes. The Maryland figure across its utilities was 80 minutes. One interruption lasting 93 minutes and 1.26 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 118 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. Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 1,488 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 9,514 residential net-metered systems on the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 88.9 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

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Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in Maryland.

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

Of the 7 utilities listed for Maryland, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative is the 4th largest by homes, at roughly 6.6% of the state total. Maryland has too few other cooperatives with reported prices to compare Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative with its type, so the state average of 19.53 cents per kWh is the fairest yardstick. Over a year, the typical Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative bill runs about $95 above the state average, with monthly use 227 kWh higher. Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 4 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 9,514 of its residential customers use net metering, or 58.2 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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