Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative Smeco Hughesville

8 28 2020 11 30 am smeco holds 82nd annual meeting.

Southern maryland electric cooperative smeco hughesville.

Smeco has a solar farm located in hughesville which has been generating electricity since november 2012. 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. Southern maryland electric cooperative smeco is a customer owned cooperative providing electricity to more than 160 000 residential customers. Smeco launched its residential energy efficiency programs in 2009 and along with other utilities supporting empower maryland is making great strides.

Southern maryland electric cooperative provides electric service to all of charles and st. The project which came online in 2018 generates 66 mw of renewable energy. Cox smeco president and ceo. Smeco will purchase the farm s output for 20 years.

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. To report an outage call 1 877 74 smeco 1 877 747 6326. More than 11 000 members voted a record high number of votes cast in a smeco election and results were announced at the meeting. In support of the empower maryland energy efficiency act of 2008 smeco launched its residential energy efficiency programs.

Remarks by sonja m. You can see how much energy the solar farm has produced. Cox spoke at smeco s 82nd annual members meeting on august 27. Our customer service counters are closed to the public until the covid 19 outbreak is no longer a threat.

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