About Us

• . SMECO is a customer-owned electric cooperative providing electricity to more than 160,000 services in southern Prince Georges County, and in Charles County, St. Marys County, and all but the northeast portion of Calvert County. What does were a co-op mean? Co-ops are distinctly different from investor-owned utilities because co-ops are owned by their customers, and customer-members elect the men and women who serve on the Board of Directors. Co-ops also issue capital credits to their customer-members. What are capital credits? They are the members share of the co-ops margins, based on how much electricity the member purchased and the rate at which the account was billed. SMECOs marginsrevenue less expensesare used as working capital for new construction and system improvements. When SMECOs Board of Directors determines that a percentage of the capital credits can be distributed to members through a general refund, capital credits will be issued by check or credited to members electric bills.