A D.C. official wants the city to allow residents to opt out of the installation of Pepco’s controversial new smart meters.
Pepco wants to charge you more so that it can become more reliable.
So, what caused the 34-minute power outage at the Super Bowl? Marion Barry has a theory: Beyoncé.
Pepco customers in D.C. will start paying $2.60 more a month as part of an approved rate increase for the much-hated utility.
The D.C. government—the hulking behemoth that it is—will now power its bureaucratic inefficiencies with nothing but wind power.
Lots of power outages, tons of phone calls and a barrage of web traffic—the June 29 derecho storm in numbers, courtesy of a new Pepco report.
Remember last week, when the Washington Post reported that Pepco had received several million dollars more in federal tax credits over the past few years than it had paid in taxes?
Metrorail service was disrupted early this morning after electrical power to substations along the Orange and Blue lines was interrupted.
At some point in 2012, 10 cultivation centers will start growing marijuana as part of the District’s long-awaited medical marijuana program. As we’ve written before, what with application fees and security plans, it won’t be a particularly cheap undertaking. Now would-be cultivators may have one more thing to worry about — their electric bills.
