My colleague Paul Adams and I are getting questions based on his story today, BGE bills to jump 8% this summer

Readers want to know the exact rates per kilowatt hour starting June 1. The PSC hasn't disclosed the rates, and neither has BGE. BGE rate czar Wayne Harbaugh says the state requires all utilities to disclose new rates on the same day, which will be Friday.

I wrote last week that the "price to compare" for BGE will go up about 4 percent after June 1 to 11.8 cents per kilowatt hour. This is for SUMMER only -- June -- September -- and it doesn't count BGE's additional delivery charge of about 3.4 cents. The 8 percent increase Adams refers to is an average for the 12 months beginning June compared with prices for the 12 months ending in May. It sounds like they bought some winter power this month at pretty high prices, which will crank up the average for the whole year.

PS: But it still doesn't change my opinion on whether you should buy an alternative dirty-electricity product from WGES, Commerce Energy or others. If you want green energy and are willing to pay for it, go for it. But their offers for standard electricity are still higher than what BGE will be charging in the next year. And even if you think electric prices are going even higher, the alternative vendors don't let you lock in for more than two years. So it's not much of a hedge.