SmartEnergy

SmartEnergy provides 100% renewable energy to customers in Maryland. Since 2012, we have been committed to helping our customers choose the environmentally friendly option when it comes to their electricity supply. Through our partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, we plant a tree in honor of each new customer. To date, we have planted over 150,000 trees in the states that we serve. It's never been easier to start making a difference.

Pepco, a subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, provides electric service s to more than 750,000 residential and commercial customers in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland. Its parent company, Pepco Holdings, operates power delivery and competitive energy businesses through its subsidiaries in the United States. The parent company s power delivery business consists primarily of the transmission, distribution and supply of electric power. Pepco Holdings conducts its power delivery business through its regulated utility subsidiaries that include Potomac Electric Power Company, Delmarva Power & Light Company and Atlantic City Electric Company. The parent company provides generation, marketing and supply of electricity and gas, as well as related energy management services, primarily in the mid-Atlantic region. Pepco Holdings operations are conducted through Conectiv Energy Holding Company and Pepco Energy Services.

National Rural Electric Co-operative is a national service organization that represents the interests of cooperative electric utilities and the consumers they serve. Its board of directors oversees the association s activities and consists of 47 members, one from each state in which there is an electric distribution cooperative. Founded in 1942, NRECA was organized specifically to overcome World War II shortages of electric construction materials, to obtain insurance coverage for newly constructed rural electric cooperatives, and to mitigate wholesale power problems. Since those early days, NRECA has been an advocate for consumer-owned cooperatives on energy and operational issues as well as rural community and economic development. It now has more than 900 members that serve 37 million people in 47 states. Most of the 865 distribution systems are consumer-owned cooperatives while some are public power districts. National Rural Electric Co-operative is headquartered in Arlington, Va.