WASHINGTON — The Maryland Public Service Commission has approved a rate hike for Pepco, which provides electricity to two suburban D.C. counties. The commission issued an order Tuesday granting a revenue increase of $52.5 million to Pepco. The increase, ...

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Exelon Corp.’s proposed $6.8 billion takeover of Pepco Holdings Inc. was approved by Washington, D.C., regulators, clearing the way for the companies to form the nation’s biggest utility almost two years after the deal was first announced. The District of ...

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NEW YORK — Exelon, in an effort to get its $6.8 billion buyout of Pepco approved, offered a new proposal Monday that it hopes will win the last regulator’s support. The District of Columbia Public Service Commission is the last ...

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WASHINGTON — The mayor of the nation’s capital withdrew her support Tuesday for a proposed $6.8 billion merger of power companies Pepco and Exelon. The Washington Post reported that District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser she said she could not ...

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WASHINGTON  — District of Columbia regulators have again rejected a proposed $6.8 billion merger between power companies Exelon and Pepco, but they say they are willing to reconsider the deal. The D.C. Public Service Commission voted Friday to impose a ...

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Exelon Corp. can push ahead with its $6.8 billion takeover of Pepco Holdings Inc. after a judge rejected arguments by Maryland officials that the deal gives the power company too much control over the state’s energy markets. Queen Anne’s County ...

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Exelon Corp., the largest U.S. nuclear operator, is planning to sell bonds to finance its acquisition of Pepco Holdings Inc., a move that would create the biggest electric and natural gas utility in the Mid-Atlantic region. Exelon will sell notes ...

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The potential appointments raised the eyebrows of some merger opponents because the panel had already heard arguments on the proposed merger and one nominee would mean a second former employee of BGE on the five-person commission.

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People’s Counsel Paula Carmody says it isn’t clear that Pepco customers know their utility faces a $6.8 billion takeover.

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The Maryland Public Service Commission tends not to fund utility projects in the future through rate increases in the present.

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