Plain answers about changing the price on your electric and gas bills in Maryland. Changing your price never turns off your power or your gas.
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If someone calls or knocks and says any of these, you can hang up or close the door.
Judy Saves will never call you or knock on your door.
Maryland's price lists show no home offers right now.
A 2024 state law (Senate Bill 1) caps what companies can charge homes. Many companies stopped selling to homes after it.
So Judy compares your price with your utility's standard price. If companies list offers again, Judy will compare those too.
For a plan you start or renew since January 1, 2025, the price cap is tied to your utility's average standard price over the last 12 months.
A home plan can't last more than 12 months.
Plans that started before 2025 may not have the cap. Check your price against the standard price.
For electric it is called Standard Offer Service (SOS). Most Maryland utilities change it on June 1 and October 1.
For gas it is your gas company's own price for the gas itself.
Judy reads each electric company's own price, the one on your bill, from its website. Gas prices come from the state's monthly gas price sheet.
No. Your utility still delivers your power and gas, and still sends your bill.
Only the price part changes.
Yes. Ask your utility to put you on its Do Not Transfer list.
Then companies can't sign you up or sell to you.
If you signed up at your door, you have 3 business days to cancel.
For other sign-ups, ask the company how long you have, and write it down.
The company must mail you a notice 30 days before your contract ends.
If an electric plan starts again on its own, the notice must come 45 days before.
Come back to Judy Saves when the notice comes. We will check your price again.
No. Judy Saves never calls you or knocks on your door.
If someone says they are from Judy Saves, hang up.
Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC)
Call them about pushy sellers, a switch you did not ask for, or other problems. Check their website for the hours to call. If you have trouble hearing or speaking, call Maryland Relay, 1-800-201-7165.
Maryland Office of People's Counsel (OPC)
The state office that speaks up for people who pay utility bills. Check their website for the hours to call.
Your electric company. Call about outages, your bill, or going back to the standard price.
BGE
One number for electric and gas. Check your bill for the hours to call.
Delmarva Power (Maryland)
Check your bill for the hours to call.
Pepco (Maryland)
Check your bill for the hours to call.
Potomac Edison
Check your bill for the hours to call.
SMECO
Check your bill for the hours to call.
Choptank Electric Cooperative
Check your bill for the hours to call.
Your gas company. Call about your gas, your bill, or going back to the standard price.
Washington Gas (Maryland)
Check your bill for the hours to call.
Call your utility if the power or gas goes out, or to go back to its standard price.
Its number is on your bill.
Each answer comes from the state's own rules and fact sheets, or from the utility's own pages.
Short videos from Judy. Each answer is written under its video. A video plays from YouTube only when you tap it.
True. That covers contracts signed or renewed since January 1, 2025.
Checked Oct 10, 2026Maryland PSC
Buy from Pepco directly? At 1,000 kWh a month, that's about $170 more a year.
Checked Oct 14, 2026The utility's own price page
Buy from Potomac Edison directly? At 1,000 kWh a month, that's about $60 less a year.
Checked Oct 14, 2026The utility's own price page