Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc Electricity Rates

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 15 utilities reporting residential rates in Maryland, Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc comes 8th of 15. The state's range runs from Hagerstown Light Department at 7.77¢ to Palmetto Solar, LLC at 25.69¢, so where a household sits inside Maryland depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 2 other cooperative utilities reporting in Maryland, which averaged 15.07¢, Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc is close to its own ownership class within the state (-1.6%).

All figures come from the 2024 release, so no comparison mixes vintages. The state figure is customer-weighted across 15 reporting utilities.

Scale and consumption

Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc reported 158.4K residential customers, ranking 5th of 15 utilities in Maryland by customers served and covering 7.2% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 13,753 kWh per customer per year - above the national residential norm, implying a typical annual bill near $2,041.

Within Maryland the median reporting utility sells about 10,426 kWh per customer, so Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc customers use +31.9% against their own state's middle. Consumption this heavy usually tracks electric heating, sustained air-conditioning load or a largely detached-housing territory, which makes the price per kWh bite harder here than the headline rate suggests.

Every utility reporting in Maryland

All 15 utilities reporting bundled residential service in Maryland, largest first, with Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in Maryland.

Common questions about Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc rates

How much does Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc charge per kWh?

Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc reported an average residential price of 14.84¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.

Is Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc expensive compared with the rest of Maryland?

Its average residential price is below the Maryland customer-weighted average of 17.71¢ per kWh, a difference of -16.2%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 15 utilities reporting residential service in Maryland.

What is the average electricity bill for Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc customers?

Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 13,753 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $2,041 a year, or about $170 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.

Who owns Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc?

EIA classifies Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc as Cooperative, a not-for-profit utility owned by the members it serves, typically in rural territory. Nationally, Cooperative utilities averaged 14.14¢ per kWh in the 2024 release.

What this page does and does not tell you

• An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
• Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology, why energy prices vary and understanding rate structures.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.