Cooperative Review

Member newsletter for Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative

Standard Offer Service rate update

Total residential Standard Offer Service (SOS) rate for February: $0.081939 per kilowatt-hour (kWh).

Winter Residential Energy Charge: $0.0854 per kWh

February Residential Power Cost Adjustment (PCA): ($0.003461) per kWh

SMECO’s PCA for February was -4.02 percent of the current average annual base energy.

Chart showing PCA as percentage above or below energy rate. December -4.72%, January 0.47%, February -4.02%

SMECO must revise its base energy rate if the PCA for three consecutive months is 5 percent more or less than the base energy rate. The PCA for February did not meet the 5 percent trigger.