In May, Pepco sent out 17,357 disconnection notices to residents while collecting $27,622,077 in a single month. The rising heat hit residents (and their bills hard): a total of 1,545 residences were shut off from power by Pepco.

As temperatures threaten to reach 110°F, Pepco suggests increasing the heat in your house to save money on the electric bills it hiked.

Pepco spent 29 percent less ($53.0 million) than its budget in 2021 and 13 percent less ($41.3 million) in 2022. That’s over $94 million in rates charged that were not needed for Pepco’s stated projects. DC residents paid it anyway.

Our grid operator is accused of inappropriately increasing prices on consumers, forcing households to pay the costs of data centers and other large projects.

A degraded Pepco cable, combined with melting snow and de-icing salt, electrocuted two dogs in NW.

After a cold winter, some residents saw their bills more than double, prompting outcry to social media, community leaders, and more.

This potential rate increase impacts retail and other commercial buildings in DC, but even more troubling: the District’s own buildings.

Early last December, the PSC approved $123 million in rate hikes over the next two years for Pepco.

By 2027, Pepco will have captured $231 million more in rates, taking nearly a quarter billion dollars from DC residents and businesses.

Pepco is using this as a smokescreen to increase their shareholder profit and plug holes in their poor business planning.

Pepco’s proposed rate hikes are extreme, unjust, and a bad deal for DC.

Pepco wants DC residents to bear the cost of infrastructure that will strong-arm DC into missing its clean energy goals.