“Dear PoPville,
Still completely insane. This is for a one bedroom (Adams Morgan) space with two circuits and no central AC. (more…)
Pepco
From Pepco:
“Pepco Crews Work Around the Clock to Safely Restore Power After Severe Storms
We know how difficult it is to be without power, especially after severe weather. Pepco crews are working safely and as quickly as possible to restore service to more than 31,000 customers after a dangerous line of thunderstorms moved through the District and Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland last night. The storms brought strong winds, frequent lightning and heavy rain that damaged trees, power lines and utility poles across the Pepco service area.
The hardest-hit areas include parts of the District and Prince George’s County, where crews are repairing damage from downed trees, broken poles and damaged power lines. We understand customers want to know when their power will be restored, and crews will continue working until every customer who can safely receive service is restored. Hardest-hit areas include portions of the District and Prince George’s County. There are currently more than 8,000 customers without power in the District and more than 22,000 in Prince George’s County. We know being without power is difficult, and we appreciate our customers patience as our crews continue working safely to make repairs in their communities. Based on the current conditions, we estimate power will be restored to 90 percent of customers by 7:00 p.m. Sunday, September 6. We will continue to update the estimated restoration time as work progresses.
The National Weather Service is forecasting another round of storms for the Pepco region later today. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Pepco. This is for my one bedroom apartment upstairs. Just as bad for the apartment downstairs.”
What is a “normal” bill for a one bedroom apartment during past summers?
2100 Block of N Street, NW
Thanks to David for sending these amazing photos from last night’s (6:30pm Wednesday) Pepco electrical substation explosion in West End: (more…)
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photo by Fritz Myer
“Dear PoPville,
‘Tis the season to complain about Pepco, but maybe something will be done if we all make a lot of noise? I keep my house between 75 and 78 degrees, and we received a bill for over $440! We do our best to be energy savvy this time of year (little to no cooking in the house, it’s grilling season!) we keep our blinds closed, all those kinds of things.
The charges are insane, (more…)
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Update: “The power outage impacting approximately 4,000 customers in Washington, DC, is resolved. If you are in the area of the Trinidad neighborhood or the H Street Corridor in NE, and are still experiencing outages, please contact Pepco at 202-833-7500.” (more…)
photo from our archives, February 2025
From Pepco:
“Pepco is monitoring the forecast closely, and our crews and local contractors are prepared to respond.
What we’re doing: (more…)
R. passes on an email from Pepco:
“Hello,
This is an important message about your Pepco account.
Due to a miscalculation of the DC Administrative Credit on your February bill, your account received a larger credit than intended. To correct this, you will see a debit adjustment applied to your next bill.
You do not need to take any action at this time.”
Anyone else get that? Time to go solar?
From the office of Councilmember Charles Allen: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
Not sure if most DC neighbors are aware of this, so wanted to see if there’s a good way to make people aware.
I was stunned when I saw Pepco’s letter explaining why we were experiencing higher electricity bills this winter. Their explanation was basically… it’s cold.
I wanted to make sure readers were aware that (more…)
Ed. Note: ICYMI we first posted about “Pepco billing anomalies”, this season, back on December 11th, 2025.
From Pepco:
“Following one of the coldest starts to winter the region has experienced in years, Pepco customers across the District of Columbia and Maryland used significantly more energy as prolonged extreme cold drove higher heating demand.
December 2025 and January 2026 ranked among the coldest winter months of the past decade, (more…)