By Jay Hancock, The Baltimore Sun
BGE household customers will be about 8.9 cents per kilowatt hour. (Everybody also pays BGE about 2.5 cents per kilowatt hour to deliver the electricity, no matter whom they buy it from.)
Baltimore-based Castlebridge Energy will sell you electric supply for 8.5 cents per kilowatt hour for 12 months — which includes next summer, when BGE’s standard price might nudge up again. (The exact summer price won’t be set until this fall, when BGE buys up the rest of its supply.)
Castlebridge doesn’t charge an early-exit fee if prices drop even more and you want to leave a contract early. Early-termination charges at WGES can hit $200.
Neither does Castlebridge, run by former BGE guys, blow money on a lot of advertising, gift-card gimmicks or friends-and-family marketing shticks and pass on the cost. They just give you the low price. ( cbenergygroup.com.)
Always compare deals for electricity and natural gas on opc.state.md.us, the website of Maryland‘s Office of People’s Counsel, which represents residential utility customers before regulators.
The best “green” electricity deal listed there is from Stream Energy, which says it will buy renewable energy credits from wind generators nationwide equal to 100 percent of your usage. Their price is 9.69 cents per kilowatt hour for 12 months (streamenergy.net).
Also check out Clean Currents’ “neighbor” wind energy option, which promises to buy wind-generated kilowatts within the region. (10.56 cents for 12 months. cleancurrents.com)
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