Saturday, September 8, 2012
Both Pepco and Baltimore Gas and Electric are reporting a significant number of outages in the DC suburbs.
Utilities in the Washington, DC suburbs are reporting thousands of outages for customers in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties following thunderstorms and high winds throughout the region. Pepco is reporting 1,058 active outages throughout their coverage area, which includes Montgomery and Prince George's Counties and the District. In Montgomery, 15,441 customers are affected and 26,521 customers in Prince George's are affected. Baltimore Gas and Electric reports 1,650 customers in Prince George's out of power. No Montgomery County customers are affected. Stay with Patch for updates. A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 10 p.m. for many areas east of Interstate 95, according to the National Weather Service. Prince George'…
Friday, July 20, 2012
State regulators to vote today on proposed Pepco rate increase.
This is the second of two articles based on comments made by Gov. Martin O’Malley this week about Pepco, the state Public Service Commission and the future of Maryland’s power grid. Click here to read the first article. Gov. Martin O’Malley laid out the challenge for Maryland’s Public Service Commission this week, calling on regulators to work to strengthen the state’s power grid as utilities rethink their service model. Speaking at a stop in Rockville, O’Malley (D) called 1999 legislation that deregulated the state’s utilities “a mistake,” saying it led to a reduction of preventive maintenance by Pepco that went unaddressed until the PSC intervened in 2010. Now, the PSC, which regulates state utilities, must address “how to adjust for…
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Public Service Commission plans hearings on Pepco's response to the June 29 storm.
This is the first of two articles based on comments by Gov. Martin O’Malley this week about Pepco, the Maryland Public Service Commission and the future of Maryland’s power grid. Stronger storms than the region has seen in decades mean Maryland needs a stronger electrical grid—and that means the state’s Public Service Commission has work to do after it holds hearings next month, Gov. Martin O’Malley said during a stop this week in Rockville. “I think there’s pretty broad consensus that the grid that we currently have is not as strong as it needs to be to weather the far more violent and frequent weather events that a warm atmosphere is going to be bringing for the foreseeable future,” O’Malley (D) said. Pepco executives and state officials…
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Severe winds, lightning, and torrential rain swept through Montgomery and Prince George's counties. 'Everyone thought they were going to die,' one resident wrote.
Last update: 3:20 p.m. A powerful storm with wind gusts up to 60 mph struck a brief but hard blow on Montgomery and Prince George's counties Friday night, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in a potentially dangerous heat wave. One person was killed in Montgomery County, according to police. Residents hunkered down against the wind, flashes of lightning and driving rain as the National Weather Service issued severe storm warnings. Large swaths of Montgomery County and Prince George's County lost power in what meteorologists have identified as a derecho. As of 3:00 p.m. Saturday, some 224,540 customers (73 percent) in Montgomery County and 130,183 customers (58 percent) in Prince George's County were without service, according to …
Thousands remain without power after a powerful storm Friday night.
Thousands of customers were without power following Friday night’s storm, and Pepco officials estimated that full power restoration could take days. Lightning, rain and winds gusting up to 60 mph struck Montgomery and Prince George's counties overnight Friday. As of 8 a.m. Saturday, the county estimated 210,000 Pepco customers remained without power out of 305,000 in Montgomery County. Some 500 out of 800 traffic signals were without power across the county, according to the county information offices, while trees and debris littered streets across the area. The company issued the following announcement on its website, as calls for customer assistance continued to pour in Saturday. Due to the widespread damage and the large number of …
Ronald Joyer
12:35 pm on Sunday, July 22, 2012
I do not know what people were expecting from O'Malley??? He has done the same on most other issues, that is, stick it to us. Promised us, no property tax increase, he did not increase them. He increased the rate, at which we can be charged for property tax. Gas tax, auto registration fee, emission test, etc. all increased. Let's not get started on the give aways to companies, while we foot the … more ›