For Marylanders looking for greener electricity, there are a couple options right now, and they're cheaper - at least for the next few months - than the standard residential rate charged by Baltimore Gas Electric.  

The electricity suppliers listed by the Maryland Public Service Commission that sell power generated in part or entirely by wind turbines:  Clean Currents and Washington Gas Energy Services.  (Pepco Energy Services's Web site also offers green and wind power for residential customers, but if you click on those links it says they are not being sold now.)

Apologies for all the numbers that follow, but when you're talking about money, you need to use those pesky things.

In its "Chesapeake Green" or "C-Green" plans, Clean Currents offers to sell residential customers electricity that is either 50 percent or 100 percent wind-generated, with rates locked in for either one or two years.  The rates quoted range from 11.1 cents per kilowatt-hour to 11.7 cents per kwh, depending on how much wind you want.

Washington Gas, meanwhile, offers "CleanSteps" plans with wind generating 50 or 100 percent of the electricity supplied.  Prices range from 11.4 cents/kwh to 12.6 cents/kwh. 

The standard residential rate charged by BGE, by comparison, is 11.825 cents per kwh, effective June 1.  In October, though, BGE's rate is scheduled to drop to 10.662 cents per kwh, below the rates now offered by either Clean Currents or WGES.  Check for yourself here.

So if you act now, you can feel green (or at least wind-blown) when you turn on the lights and save a little green, too.   For those wondering where the power is actually generated, the answer is - out of state.  There are no commercial wind turbines in Maryland yet, though some are in the pipeline.  That's another post, for later.