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Tariff data · 2026-08-26
Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc · MD

Residential Service Time of Use

When does peak hit on Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc’s Residential Service Time of Use? Peak hits 8pm–6am, 9am–5pm, 6am–9am, 5pm–8pm in Oct–Apr; 2pm–7pm in May–Sep — every day.

  • peak27.45¢
  • mid15.39¢
  • off-peak14.45¢
Weekdays
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What does Residential Service Time of Use cost a year?

HouseholdUsesPer yearWorks out to
Apartment

One or two people, no central air, no electric heat

4,866 kWh$97720.1¢ / kWh
Family home

Three or four people with central air conditioning

9,453 kWh$1,79719.0¢ / kWh
Home with an EV

Same house, plus an electric car charging overnight

13,103 kWh$2,34517.9¢ / kWh

Estimates, not quotes. We run three made-up but realistic households through this tariff hour by hour for a full year — including the way air conditioning loads the afternoon and an EV loads the small hours. Your own bill depends on when you actually use electricity, which is exactly the thing a per-kWh number hides.

What you actually pay

PeriodRateApplies when
peak27.45¢2pm–7pm, May–September
mid26.12¢6am–9am, 5pm–8pm, October–April
mid15.39¢8pm–6am, 9am–5pm, midnight–midnight, October–April
off-peak14.45¢7pm–2pm, midnight–midnight, May–September

Plus a fixed charge of $10.07 per month.

Should you be on Residential Service Time of Use?

This is a time-of-use plan, which means the clock decides your bill as much as the meter does. At the worst hour you pay 27.5¢ a kWh; at the best hour, 14.5¢ — 1.9× apart for identical electricity.

That gap is worth real money only if you can move load into it. Every kilowatt-hour a day you shift from 2pm to midnight is about $47 a year. A dishwasher run is roughly 1.5 kWh; an EV commute charge is 8 to 12. If your day is fixed — you are home in the evening and the air conditioner runs when it runs — a plan like this costs you more, not less.

Before a single kilowatt-hour moves, this plan charges $121 a year in fixed fees. On the apartment above that is 12% of the whole bill; on the house with a car charging in it, 5%. Fixed charges are invisible in a cents-per-kWh comparison and they punish small users hardest — if you use very little electricity, the headline rate is the least important number on this page.

Expect the bill to move with the calendar. The same family home costs about $204 in July and $118 in February — a $86 spread driven by heating and cooling far more than by anything you chose. Budget against the July figure, not the average, and a summer bill stops being a surprise.

How it compares to Southern Maryland Elec Coop’s other plans

Measured against the other residential plans this utility files, a family home lands 3rd cheapest of 3. The cheapest option, Residential Service, would run about $1,065 a year less.

Against Residential Service, which looks like the plan you land on by default, this one comes out $35 more per year (2%). We infer the default from the tariff structure rather than a flag in the data, so confirm it against your own bill before you switch.

If this is new to you

Where this comes from

Effective
2025-07-01

the date this tariff took effect

Covers
delivery + supply

우편번호 매핑에서 이 지역 서비스 종류가 Bundled — 배달과 공급을 함께 판다

Enrollment
open to new customers

Tariff document: Available throughout the area served by the Cooperative to individual residences and individually metered dwelling units in multiple-occupancy buildings where the use is for residential purposes and for farm operations where electricity for both farm and residential purposes is delivered through the same meter, subject to the established rules and regulations of the Cooperative. Without the written permission of the Cooperative, the rated capacity of single-phase motors shall not be in excess of five horsepower. Customer must have service provided through a Cooperative-installed AMI meter. Customer must be receiving Standard Offer Service (SOS) from the Cooperative. A customer may switch between Residential service and Residential Time of Use (R-TOU) service. Schedule R-TOU is not available to customers served by an alternative Electricity Supplier. A customer on R-TOU changing to service from an alternative Electricity Supplier will be moved to Schedule R. Switches to TOU and off of TOU will occur at the next meter read date after a Customer requests the switch