Member newsletter for Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative

Standard Offer Service rate update

Total residential Standard Offer Service (SOS) rate for November: $0.078606 per kilowatt-hour (kWh).

  • Winter Residential Energy Charge: $0.0854 per kWh
  • November Residential Power Cost Adjustment (PCA): ($0.006794) per kWh

SMECO’s PCA for November was -7.89 percent of the current average annual base energy.

SMECO must revise its base energy rate if the PCA for three consecutive months is five percent more or less than the base energy rate. A new base rate became effective October 1, 2023.