Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc Electricity Rate per kWh (2024 EIA Data)

Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc is a member-owned cooperative electric utility that reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under utility number 3503. In 2024 it served 50,697 bundled residential customers in Maryland, and its average realised residential price was 16.46 cents per kWh: $111 million of residential revenue divided by 676,954 MWh of residential sales.

Across the other sectors, Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc's 2024 average prices were 15.29 cents for commercial customers (6,132 accounts) and 11.08 cents for industrial customers (216 accounts). Industrial customers paid 5.38 cents less per kWh than households, a 33% discount that is typical of high-volume, high-voltage service.

Within Maryland, Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc ranked number 6 of 9 utilities with bundled or delivery service by residential accounts served (50,697) and accounted for 2.48% of the state's residential electricity sales in 2024, measured in MWh sold or delivered rather than in customers. The state-wide average realised residential price in 2024, computed from the same EIA file, was 17.86 cents per kWh, so Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc's customers paid 1.40 cents below the Maryland average (-7.8%). For context, EIA's latest monthly figure for Maryland is 21.84 cents per kWh (June 2026, Electric Power Monthly); that is a different, more recent measure across all utilities and is not directly comparable with a 2024 annual average.

EIA's service-territory file places Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc in 9 Maryland counties: Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Annes, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester. On the grid side it operates in the RFC NERC region and the PJM Interconnection market, and reported distribution and retail marketing as its activities. Balancing authority code: PJM.

EIA's preliminary 2025 early release (published 4 August 2026) shows a residential price of 17.11 cents per kWh for Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc in Maryland across 50,981 residential customers, 0.65 cents higher than the 2024 final figure. Early-release data has not been validated by EIA and must not be aggregated; the 2024 final figures remain the reference on this page until the 2025 final file is published.

The nearest other utilities in Maryland by service-territory centroid are Delmarva Power (10.9 miles away, 17.23 cents), Easton Utilities Comm (15.7 miles away, 13.06 cents), Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc (47.9 miles away, 14.84 cents), Baltimore Gas & Electric Co (54.3 miles away, 17.91 cents), and Potomac Electric Power Co (63 miles away, 20.08 cents).