Power outages in Maryland, by utility
Across 7 Maryland utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 2.9 hours in 2025 — that is 1.0× better than the national median. Maryland ranks #22 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 2.9 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 6.7 hrs
- The Potomac Edison Company
- Best utility
- 0.5 hrs
- Easton Utilities Comm
- Utilities reporting
- 7
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Maryland utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Potomac Edison CompanyInvestor Owned | 6.7 hrs399 min | 1.3 | 2.2× worse |
| 2 | Choptank Electric Cooperative, IncCooperative | 3.6 hrs217 min | 1.8 | 1.2× worse |
| 3 | Baltimore Gas & Electric CoInvestor Owned | 2.9 hrs175 min | 0.9 | 1.0× better |
| 4 | Southern Maryland Elec Coop IncCooperative | 2.9 hrs173 min | 1.6 | 1.0× better |
| 5 | Delmarva PowerInvestor Owned | 1.9 hrs114 min | 0.9 | 1.6× better |
| 6 | Potomac Electric Power CoInvestor Owned | 1.7 hrs104 min | 0.7 | 1.7× better |
| 7 | Easton Utilities CommMunicipal | 0.5 hrs31 min | 0.6 | 5.8× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Only 7 utilities in Maryland reported, so this ranking covers part of the state rather than all of it. Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.