BGE hotel electricity: commercial schedules, SOS and enrollment review

Which BGE accounts should a hotel inventory first?

BGE is Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, a Maryland delivery utility with separate electric and gas tariffs. Its company and service territory information provides the geographic starting point for a Baltimore and central Maryland hotel review. The property’s actual bill and service address still determine whether BGE serves each fuel. This page is an editorial coverage candidate, without a verified ranking by hotel rooms.

Inventory the main building, parking facility, exterior lighting, and charging accounts before requesting supply offers. Also record whether gas is used for laundry, kitchen equipment, or domestic hot water. An electric supplier agreement cannot settle the gas procurement or the gas delivery classification.

The hotel energy markets hub supports that account organization. Maryland portfolios may also need the Pepco hotel guide or Delmarva Power hotel guide. Preserve the actual delivery utility and tariff for each property, even where one supplier serves the portfolio.

How do Schedule G and Schedule GL differ?

The current Schedule G tariff describes general service availability where the customer does not qualify for another schedule, with additional specified exceptions. Its delivery calculation includes a customer charge and energy charge, rather than assuming every general-service account has the same demand-charge structure. Review other applicable schedules when the property’s load or service conditions require them.

The current Schedule GL tariff identifies general service large availability where a customer has established monthly demand of at least 60 kW. That delivery boundary is separate from the default supply tests involving PJM capacity contribution. Do not use one threshold for both classifications.

GL also distinguishes primary and secondary delivery and lists time periods for certain supply charges. Its billed-demand provisions use maximum thirty-minute demand for the applicable rating period. The schedule should be read as written. Importing another utility’s historical demand ratchet into a BGE calculation can create an incorrect budget.

Which peaks matter on a GL hotel bill?

A rating period is a tariff-defined block of hours used to allocate energy or demand charges. A building can have one peak across all hours and a different peak within a defined on-peak window.

GL’s current continuation leaf distinguishes generation and transmission demand billed in the peak rating period from delivery demand recorded during any rating period. This makes timing important. A late-night laundry start may affect the delivery peak while having different consequences for a utility default supply component than an afternoon start.

Confirm the schedule’s holiday and seasonal definitions when reproducing a bill. The hotel should not substitute ordinary business hours for the tariff’s actual clock.

How does BGE assign commercial standard offer service?

Rider 1 Standard Offer Service separates Type I, Type II, and hourly-priced treatment. Type II eligibility considers measured demand or seasonal consumption tests and the assigned PJM capacity peak load contribution. Hourly-priced eligibility is associated with customers outside Type I or Type II whose assigned contribution is at least 600 kW. The actual account assignment is the appropriate starting point.

The current posted rider includes October 1, 2026 commercial supply periods, with Type II periods separately identified from Type I periods. It also separates generation, administrative, tax, and transmission components and notes exclusions from the displayed totals. A supplier offer should be compared with the right account category and cost coverage.

For a hotel remaining on default service, use the relevant billed dates and components. For a supplier proposal extending beyond published default periods, label the future benchmark assumptions. Do not extend today’s tariff reference into a multi-year forecast as though every future component had been approved.

What does a competitive supplier actually take over?

The June 2026 supplier coordination tariff defines competitive supply in terms including energy, capacity, transmission, and required ancillary services. BGE’s distribution account remains. The commercial contract must still explain whether the offered price includes the complete supply package or leaves identified costs variable.

Ask bidders to show taxes, loss treatment, capacity inputs, transmission treatment, and adjustments. Where capacity passes through, obtain the assigned quantity, period, and calculation. Where the bidder offers a fixed price, read the exceptions for new charges, changed tags, and material load changes. A label alone does not establish coverage.

For a full-service hotel, prepare one forecast with current banquet, kitchen, laundry, and central-cooling operations and another reflecting any planned changes. Review the contract against both. If an on-site laundry is outsourced, explain the expected start date and volume reduction. If EV charging is added, specify whether it uses the main hotel meter or a separate service.

When can a BGE supplier enrollment become effective?

Section 7.2.3 of the supplier tariff states that valid enrollment transactions receive an effective date three business days after the enrollment process date. It also limits accepted enrollments to two per customer within a billing cycle. A request that exceeds the limit can be rejected and may need resubmission in the next cycle.

That process date is not the hotel’s contract signature date. Confirm authorized account data, successful supplier submission, and the utility’s accepted effective date. The tariff separately addresses supplier drops and account moves. A hotel should verify any move conditions for its specific transaction rather than assuming an existing supplier automatically follows an ownership change.

1. Identify the authorized legal entity and each covered electric account.
2. Review the outgoing contract’s service end date and termination terms.
3. Obtain the incoming supplier’s enrollment submission record.
4. Retain BGE’s accepted effective-date response and required commercial notice.
5. Reconcile both suppliers’ charges around the changeover dates.

Which current BGE efficiency pathway applies?

The business program FAQ states that the current programs are approved through December 31, 2026. It also identifies eligibility by schedule and says nonresidential customers can participate regardless of their electricity or gas supplier. A supply switch is therefore separate from the incentive application, and does not by itself establish or remove eligibility.

The eligibility table places G and GS in the Small Business Energy Solutions pathway, while broader business and tune-up programs include additional schedules such as GL, P, and T. Verify the hotel’s actual schedule and the proposed measure. Equipment specifications, approval conditions, installation dates, funding, and final documentation can still determine the outcome.

For a controls project, preserve the baseline schedules and trend data before making changes. For a chiller or kitchen-equipment replacement, compare the administrator’s required efficiency and baseline assumptions with the engineering proposal. Confirm the current rules directly before starting work, particularly near the end of the approved period. Program continuation into a later year should be verified when that later period applies.

What should the owner receive at the decision meeting?

Present a bill reconstruction, confirmed schedule and SOS category, supplier cost schedule, enrollment plan, and equipment assumptions. Include a separate delivery forecast so a lower supply offer does not conceal continued demand costs. Explain how the recommendation behaves if occupancy, laundry operations, or the commissioning date changes.

For a wider regional portfolio, the Atlantic City Electric hotel guide shows an example of a specific historical demand floor. That example is useful as a comparison question, but the hotel’s BGE schedule remains the governing delivery rule. Keep tariff conclusions distinct from a supplier’s commercial interpretation.

Broker compensation: Ask for written disclosure of any supplier-paid adder or direct fee and its billing units, calculation, and renewal treatment. Include that compensation consistently in the evaluated supply scope. Retain the disclosure with the chosen agreement, account schedules, and accepted utility enrollment evidence.