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Vol74-5 May 2024

Member newsletter for Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative

Standard Offer Service rate tracker

Total residential Standard Offer Service (SOS) rate for April: $0.087163 per kilowatt-hour (kWh).

Winter Residential Energy Charge: $0.0854 per kWh
April Residential Power Cost Adjustment (PCA): $0.001763 per kWh

SMECO’s PCA for April was 2.05 percent of the current average annual base energy.

Graph showing PCA percentages from February, March, and April: PCA 5% below energy rate is -4.02% for February : Actual PCA reflecting difference in cost from energy rate is -0.06% for March : PCA 5% above energy rate is 2.05% for April

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 April did not meet
the 5 percent trigger.