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Maryland

Baltimore Gas and Electric

Investor-owned utility (Baltimore Gas & Electric Co), regulated by the Maryland Public Service Commission. The average Maryland home pays about $166 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).

1 pending rate case, about $8 a month more if approved

That is the ask, not the outcome: commissions usually approve less than the utility requests. Each case below links its docket and sources.

$166
average Maryland home today (EIA, 2024)
$174
if everything pending is approved as asked
+$8
a month

The ask, not the outcome. Your own bill scales with your usage; a home using twice the state average would see roughly twice the change.

Pending

1
Pending Base rate case

BGE has asked to raise electric bills about 8 dollars a month starting in 2027; nothing has been approved yet and the case is still under review.

+$8a month

Decided

Approved Rider or surcharge From Feb 2026

Your BGE electric bill picked up about 72 cents a month in February 2026 from a routine multi-year plan true-up, far less than the utility originally asked for.

+$0.72a month
Approved Rider or surcharge, gas From Feb 2026

Your BGE gas bill picked up about 1.95 dollars a month in February 2026 from the same multi-year plan true-up that raised electric bills 72 cents.

+$2a month

How to have a say

Rate cases are decided by the Maryland Public Service Commission, which takes written comments on every docket and holds public hearings on the big ones. Comment deadlines and hearing dates are on each case page above when we have them. The office that argues for households in these cases is the Office of People's Counsel; its filings are the plain-English version of the utility's numbers.

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Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.