Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative Smeco Hughesville

In support of the empower maryland energy efficiency act of 2008 smeco launched its residential energy efficiency programs.

Southern maryland electric cooperative smeco hughesville. Smeco launched its residential energy efficiency programs in 2009 and along with other utilities supporting empower maryland is making great strides. Cox smeco president and ceo. Southern maryland electric cooperative smeco is a customer owned cooperative providing electricity to more than 137 000 customers making it one of the largest electric co ops in the nation. More than 11 000 members voted a record high number of votes cast in a smeco election and results were announced at the meeting.

Smeco has a solar farm located in hughesville which has been generating electricity since november 2012. Mary s counties all but the northern tip of calvert county and the southern portion of prince george s county. To report an outage call 1 877 74 smeco 1 877 747 6326. You can contact smeco toll free at 1 888 440 3311.

Southern maryland electric cooperative smeco is among the 10 largest electric cooperatives in the nation providing electricity to over 150 000 services in maryland as part of its effort to respond to the empower maryland initiative which aims to reduce the state s energy consumption by 15 percent by 2015 smeco supports the energy star new homes and energy star qualified products programs. Cox spoke at smeco s 82nd annual members meeting on august 27. Check out our website. The project which came online in 2018 generates 66 mw of renewable energy.

Remarks by sonja m. You can see how much energy the solar farm has produced. Smeco uses some of the solar energy to supply the needs of the engineering and. Smeco solar a subsidiary of southern maryland electric cooperative operates a solar farm in hughesville to convert sunlight into energy by harnessing the power of the sun the solar farm which sits on 33 acres of smeco owned land uses 23 716 photovoltaic panels to generate 5 5 megawatts of electricity.

Our customer service counters are closed to the public until the covid 19 outbreak is no longer a threat. Smeco will purchase the farm s output for 20 years.