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BGE has asked to raise electric bills about 8.18 dollars a month starting in 2027, including a 17 percent jump in the distribution charge; public hearings run through November 18, 2026 and nothing has been approved yet.
+$8a month
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
Decided
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
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.
Guides: how to comment and whether it helps, what "typical bill" means, how to read your bill.
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Other Maryland utilities with cases
Delmarva Power investor-owned utility
Potomac Edison investor-owned utility
Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.