Public Service Commission Orders Utility Improvements
The Maryland Public Service Commission issued an order on Wednesday directing electricity companies to improve service reliability and resiliency.
Utility companies in Maryland will need to beef up their efforts to improve electricity service reliability and resiliency, according to an order issued by the Maryland Public Service Commission on Wednesday, Feb. 27. The order (No. 85385) requires utility providers like Pepco to do the following: Pepco has 534,601 electricity customers in Maryland, and 410,679 (77 percent) of them were without power at the peak of electricity outages after the derecho—double the number of outages after Hurricane Irene, according to the commission's order. President Obama even declared that six jurisdictions in Maryland, including Montgomery County, were part of a major disaster area after the derecho, which occurred during a heat wave. On June 9, …
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patty vogel
4:47 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Knee jerk reaction to the power outage is to cut every tree down in Kesington, Silver Spring and Chevy Chase. While you were sleeping MoCo, every tree was cut down. Take a look at St.Pauls street, Dupont, PlyersMill Road, Asphuldh trucks everywhere. more ›