Maryland Electricity Rates, Providers & Generation
In Maryland, the average residential electricity rate is 19.48¢ per kilowatt-hour, ranking 38th nationally; the typical home spends $185 per month on electricity; 4% of generation comes from renewable sources.
Maryland electricity overview
Production, consumption, and emissions for Maryland based on the most recent reported year (2025).
- Population
- 6,265,347
- Total production
- 97.1 TWh 15.49 MWh per capita
- Total consumption
- 59.5 TWh 9.50 MWh per capita
- Production from renewables
- 4.2 TWh 4.3% of generation
- Production from non-renewables
- 92.9 TWh
Maryland electricity rates & bills
Average residential electricity rate in Maryland, last 22 months.
| Sector | Avg rate (¢/kWh) |
|---|---|
| Residential | 19.48¢ |
| Commercial | 14.74¢ |
| Industrial | 12.48¢ |
How Maryland generates electricity
Generation mix from in-state power plants over the most recent twelve months, by fuel category.
- Renewable
- Nuclear
- Fossil
- Other
| Fuel | Share | Generation |
|---|---|---|
| fossil fuels | 19.5% | 19.4 TWh |
| natural gas | 16.6% | 16.6 TWh |
| natural gas & other gases | 16.6% | 16.6 TWh |
| nuclear | 14.6% | 14.6 TWh |
| renewable | 4.0% | 4.0 TWh |
| estimated total solar | 3.1% | 3.1 TWh |
| estimated total solar photovoltaic | 3.1% | 3.1 TWh |
| all renewables | 2.4% | 2.4 TWh |
| coal, excluding waste coal | 2.3% | 2.3 TWh |
| all coal products | 2.3% | 2.3 TWh |
| bituminous coal and synthetic coal | 2.3% | 2.3 TWh |
| bituminous coal | 2.3% | 2.3 TWh |
| estimated small scale solar photovoltaic | 1.7% | 1.7 TWh |
| conventional hydroelectric | 1.6% | 1.6 TWh |
| solar photovoltaic | 1.4% | 1.4 TWh |
| solar | 1.4% | 1.4 TWh |
| wind | 0.7% | 713.0 GWh |
| onshore wind turbine | 0.7% | 713.0 GWh |
| petroleum liquids | 0.5% | 541.9 GWh |
| petroleum | 0.5% | 541.9 GWh |
| distillate fuel oil | 0.5% | 516.9 GWh |
| other | 0.3% | 285.6 GWh |
| biomass | 0.3% | 284.8 GWh |
| renewable waste products | 0.3% | 284.8 GWh |
| municiapl landfill gas | 0.3% | 284.8 GWh |
| biogenic municipal solid waste | 0.2% | 233.7 GWh |
| biomass | 0.2% | 233.7 GWh |
Maryland production fuel makeup
Share of in-state generation by fuel over the latest twelve months.
- fossil fuels19.5%
- natural gas16.6%
- natural gas & other gases16.6%
- nuclear14.6%
- renewable4.0%
- estimated total solar3.1%
- estimated total solar photovoltaic3.1%
- all renewables2.4%
- coal, excluding waste coal2.3%
- all coal products2.3%
- bituminous coal and synthetic coal2.3%
- bituminous coal2.3%
- estimated small scale solar photovoltaic1.7%
- conventional hydroelectric1.6%
- solar photovoltaic1.4%
- solar1.4%
- wind0.7%
- onshore wind turbine0.7%
- petroleum liquids0.5%
- petroleum0.5%
- distillate fuel oil0.5%
- other0.3%
- biomass0.3%
- renewable waste products0.3%
- municiapl landfill gas0.3%
- biogenic municipal solid waste0.2%
- biomass0.2%
Electric utilities in Maryland
The 7 electric distribution utilities that serve Maryland, by customers served. These are the companies that deliver power and handle outages.
| Utility | Parent company | Customers served | Outage map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Gas & Electric Co | Exelon | 1,300,000 | Outage map |
| Pepco (Potomac Electric Power Co) | — | 905,000 | Outage map |
| Delmarva Power | Exelon | 554,553 | Outage map |
| Potomac Edison | — | 430,000 | Outage map |
| Monongahela Power (Mon Power) | — | 390,000 | Outage map |
| Southern Maryland Electric Coop (SMECO) | — | 174,303 | Outage map |
| EverBright, LLC | — | 63,164 | Outage map |
Residential electricity providers in Maryland
15 utilities and retail providers serving residential customers, ordered by customer count. Maryland has a deregulated retail electricity market — most residential customers can choose among competing providers.
| Provider | Type | Customers | Annual sales | Avg rate | Avg bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Gas & Electric Co | Investor-owned | 188,355 | 2.0 TWh | 6.49¢ | — |
| Potomac Electric Power Co | Investor-owned | 68,124 | 665.1 GWh | 8.97¢ | — |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | Cooperative | 50,697 | 677.0 GWh | 16.46¢ | — |
| Tesla Inc. | Behind-the-meter | 26,988 | 186.6 GWh | 15.84¢ | — |
| Sunrun Inc. | Behind-the-meter | 25,231 | 225.8 GWh | 14.18¢ | — |
| The Potomac Edison Company | Investor-owned | 15,998 | 195.5 GWh | 4.12¢ | — |
| Hagerstown Light Department | Municipal | 15,099 | 165.4 GWh | 7.77¢ | — |
| Delmarva Power | Investor-owned | 14,360 | 174.0 GWh | 8.76¢ | — |
| Easton Utilities Comm | Municipal | 8,590 | 107.3 GWh | 13.06¢ | — |
| Sunnova | Behind-the-meter | 4,578 | 44.3 GWh | 18.67¢ | — |
| Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 2,507 | 25.9 GWh | 5.55¢ | — |
| Spruce Finance | Behind-the-meter | 579 | 4.8 GWh | 12.03¢ | — |
| EverBright, LLC | Behind-the-meter | 350 | 2.1 GWh | 12.74¢ | — |
| A & N Electric Coop | Cooperative | 253 | 2.2 GWh | 13.69¢ | — |
| Palmetto Solar, LLC | Behind-the-meter | 5 | 197 MWh | 25.69¢ | — |
Commercial electricity providers in Maryland
14 providers serving commercial customers, ordered by annual sales.
| Provider | Type | Customers | Annual sales | Avg rate | Avg bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Gas & Electric Co | Investor-owned | 49,081 | 11.8 TWh | 3.70¢ | — |
| Potomac Electric Power Co | Investor-owned | 18,915 | 5.9 TWh | 5.50¢ | — |
| The Potomac Edison Company | Investor-owned | 10,488 | 1.5 TWh | 3.54¢ | — |
| Delmarva Power | Investor-owned | 10,718 | 1.3 TWh | 5.51¢ | — |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | Cooperative | 6,132 | 234.1 GWh | 15.29¢ | — |
| Easton Utilities Comm | Municipal | 2,400 | 132.1 GWh | 12.68¢ | — |
| Hagerstown Light Department | Municipal | 2,592 | 86.8 GWh | 8.08¢ | — |
| Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc | Cooperative | 345 | 31.9 GWh | 3.47¢ | — |
| Tesla Inc. | Behind-the-meter | 148 | 19.9 GWh | 6.34¢ | — |
| Constellation Solar Holding, LLC | Behind-the-meter | 16 | 14.4 GWh | 8.54¢ | — |
| TerraForm US Energy Services, LLC | Behind-the-meter | 7 | 2.6 GWh | 8.95¢ | — |
| Ahana Renewables, LLC | Behind-the-meter | 4 | 1.8 GWh | 7.39¢ | — |
| A & N Electric Coop | Cooperative | 42 | 567 MWh | 13.54¢ | — |
| Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation | Behind-the-meter | 1 | 166 MWh | 10.00¢ | — |
Power plant map of Maryland
185 power plants in Maryland with known coordinates, plotted by location. Marker size reflects nameplate capacity; color shows primary fuel.
- Renewable
- Nuclear
- Fossil
- Other
Power plants in Maryland
Largest in-state electricity generators by annual net generation, with associated CO2 emissions where available.
| Plant | County | Fuel | Capacity | Generation | CO₂ | CO₂/MWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant | — | NUC | 1.9 GW | 15.0 TWh | — | — |
| Wildcat Point Generation Facility | — | NG | 1.1 GW | 4.4 TWh | 1.7 M tonnes | 373 kg |
| Key | — | NG | 831 MW | 4.2 TWh | 1.7 M tonnes | 393 kg |
| CPV St Charles Energy Center | — | NG | 775 MW | 4.2 TWh | 1.6 M tonnes | 385 kg |
| Conowingo | — | WAT | 531 MW | 1.8 TWh | — | — |
| Brandon Shores | — | BIT | 1.4 GW | 1.0 TWh | 1.2 M tonnes | 1,185 kg |
| Chalk Point Power | — | NG | 1.8 GW | 690.7 GWh | 467.4 k tonnes | 677 kg |
| Brandywine Power Facility | — | NG | 289 MW | 650.8 GWh | 297.4 k tonnes | 457 kg |
| Wheelabrator Baltimore Refuse | — | MSW | 65 MW | 291.3 GWh | 122.5 k tonnes | 420 kg |
| Dickerson Power | — | NG | 326 MW | 287.8 GWh | 198.0 k tonnes | 688 kg |
| Montgomery County Resource Recovery | — | MSW | 68 MW | 283.5 GWh | 255.0 k tonnes | 900 kg |
| Perryman | — | NG | 492 MW | 246.9 GWh | 152.6 k tonnes | 618 kg |
| Essential Power Rock Springs LLC | — | NG | 796 MW | 213.7 GWh | 119.3 k tonnes | 558 kg |
| NIH Cogeneration Facility | — | NG | 28 MW | 175.5 GWh | 0 kg | 0 kg |
| Criterion | — | WND | 70 MW | 167.0 GWh | — | — |
| Bluegrass Solar | — | SUN | 80 MW | 159.8 GWh | — | — |
| Great Bay Solar 1 | — | SUN | 118 MW | 138.9 GWh | — | — |
| Fourmile Ridge | — | WND | 40 MW | 111.4 GWh | — | — |
| Central Utility Plant at White Oak | — | NG | 54 MW | 97.0 GWh | 56.4 k tonnes | 581 kg |
| Roth Rock Wind Farm LLC | — | WND | 40 MW | 93.6 GWh | — | — |
| Fair Wind | — | WND | 30 MW | 86.2 GWh | — | — |
| Herbert A Wagner | — | DFO | 774 MW | 68.1 GWh | 108.2 k tonnes | 1,589 kg |
| APG Combined Heat and Power Plant | — | NG | 8 MW | 49.7 GWh | 25.3 k tonnes | 508 kg |
| Domino Sugar Baltimore | — | NG | 18 MW | 49.6 GWh | 0 kg | 0 kg |
| Todd Solar | — | SUN | 20 MW | 43.5 GWh | — | — |
| Ripley | — | SUN | 28 MW | 35.0 GWh | — | — |
| Maryland Solar | — | SUN | 27 MW | 32.8 GWh | — | — |
| Longview Solar | — | SUN | 14 MW | 25.5 GWh | — | — |
| Eastern Landfill Gas LLC | — | LFG | 4 MW | 25.1 GWh | 2 kg | 0 kg |
| Roth Rock North Wind Farm, LLC | — | WND | 10 MW | 23.4 GWh | — | — |
| Annapolis Solar Park, LLC | — | SUN | 12 MW | 22.8 GWh | — | — |
| Millersville LFG | — | LFG | 3 MW | 22.1 GWh | 0 kg | 0 kg |
| Fort Detrick Solar PV | — | SUN | 22 MW | 20.6 GWh | — | — |
| Deep Creek | — | WAT | 20 MW | 19.7 GWh | — | — |
| Wye Mills VNEM CSG | — | SUN | 10 MW | 18.9 GWh | — | — |
| Mount Saint Mary's | — | SUN | 14 MW | 17.8 GWh | — | — |
| Solar Hagerstown | — | SUN | 10 MW | 17.2 GWh | — | — |
| Wicomico | — | LFG | 5 MW | 15.4 GWh | 574.8 tonnes | 37 kg |
| Rockfish Solar LLC | — | SUN | 10 MW | 14.6 GWh | — | — |
| Baker Point | — | SUN | 9 MW | 12.9 GWh | — | — |
| Union Bridge Solar | — | SUN | 8 MW | 12.3 GWh | — | — |
| Blue Star | — | SUN | 8 MW | 12.1 GWh | — | — |
| Gateway Solar | — | SUN | 8 MW | 10.0 GWh | — | — |
| Bomber CSG | — | SUN | 6 MW | 9.0 GWh | — | — |
| Synergen Panorama, LLC CSG | — | SUN | 5 MW | 8.1 GWh | — | — |
| Pinesburg Solar LLC | — | SUN | 4 MW | 8.1 GWh | — | — |
| Herbert Farm Solar | — | SUN | 6 MW | 7.6 GWh | — | — |
| Church Hill | — | SUN | 6 MW | 7.6 GWh | — | — |
| NIST Solar | — | SUN | 4 MW | 6.8 GWh | — | — |
| CNE at Cambridge MD | — | SUN | 3 MW | 5.9 GWh | — | — |
There is 1 nuclear power plant in Maryland
| Plant | County | Fuel | Capacity | Generation | CO₂ | CO₂/MWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant | — | NUC | 1.9 GW | 15.0 TWh | — | — |
Data centers & crypto mining in Maryland
Data centers and cryptocurrency-mining operations are large electricity consumers that show up inside Maryland's commercial and industrial load. EIA does not publish a facility-level data-center inventory, so the figures below pair reported commercial and industrial sales with EIA estimates of data-center and crypto-mining electricity demand.
No state-level EIA estimate of cryptocurrency-mining load is available for Maryland; mining is concentrated in a handful of states.
Quick facts about electricity in Maryland
- The average residential electricity rate in Maryland is 19.48¢ per kWh, the 38th lowest among the 50 states and DC.
- The typical residential electricity bill in Maryland is $185 per month.
- Maryland's largest source of in-state generation is fossil fuels, at 19.5% of the mix.
- Renewable sources account for 4.3% of the electricity generated in Maryland.
- Maryland generated 97.1 TWh of electricity in the most recent reported year.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average electricity rate in Maryland?
The average residential electricity rate in Maryland was 19.48¢ per kilowatt-hour as of 2025, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data, ranking 38th among the 50 states and DC.
What is the average electricity bill in Maryland?
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Maryland was $185 in 2025. This figure is calculated from total annual residential revenue divided by average customer count over twelve months, using EIA Form 861 data.
Can I choose my electricity provider in Maryland?
Yes. Most residential customers can choose their electricity provider.
What share of Maryland's electricity comes from renewable sources?
In 2025, 4.3% of electricity generated in Maryland came from renewable sources (wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biomass), based on EIA Form 923 data.
How much electricity do data centers use in Maryland?
Data centers in Maryland are estimated to use about 3.2 TWh of electricity per year, roughly 5.5% of the state's electricity sales. EIA does not publish facility-level data-center data; this is an estimate that apportions national EIA/DOE data-center figures by Maryland's share of U.S. commercial electricity sales.