Already hammered by lawmakers and customers over the last year for how it handled power outages during a string of storms last year, Pepco is now the focus of a four-day hearing before the Maryland Public Service Commission. The commission ...

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BETHESDA — Utility officials are blaming a power outage in the Washington suburb of Bethesda on a squirrel. The Washington Post reports that about 1,200 homes and businesses lost power for less than an hour Sunday starting around 11:20 a.m. ...

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WASHINGTON — Pepco says it expects to return power by midnight to more than 1,500 customers north of Union Station. BGE, meanwhile, says it is preparing for an approaching cold front could that could trigger thunderstorms and cause more outages. ...

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WASHINGTON — About 3,400 customers in the Washington region are without power amid a heat wave. As of 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, Pepco was reporting on its website that about 3,320 customers were without power in Washington. Another 220 customers lacked ...

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Pepco Holdings Inc., parent company of electric utility Pepco, said Friday its first-quarter profits surged on higher transmission and distribution revenue. The company reported earnings of $64 million, or 28 cents per share, in the first quarter, compared to $36 ...

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Lawmakers confronting energy legislation had no problem holding power utilities accountable for meeting reliability standards, but the governor’s effort to open up Maryland’s coastal waters to windmills failed. Also failing was a bid to put a moratorium on natural gas ...

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Sen. Barbara Mikulski is calling for stronger state power reliability standards. Mikulski says she will appear before Maryland’s Public Service Commission Thursday to urge swift adoption of regulations to put stronger standards into place. The Baltimore Democrat says frequent power ...

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Power company Pepco and its performance, or lack thereof, were the topics of discussion once again Wednesday, this time at a hearing held by the  House Economic Matters Committee. The company is under fire from multiple sides over its response ...

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After severe weather knocked power out to customers across the state, especially in Pepco’s service area, state legislators are upping the ante to improve reliability. Gov. Martin O’Malley said Wednesday that legislation would be introduced to institute reliability standards for ...

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Del. Dereck E. Davis, chairman of the House Economic Matters Committee, said Wednesday he will hold a hearing next week on the performance of Pepco and the state’s other electric utilities during last week’s snowstorm. “The committee would like some ...

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