Pepco wants to stick customers with cost of arguing its upkeep was fine

WPost Columnist Robert McCarthy uncovers that PEPCO is asking for a rate increase to cover its cost to cover fighting action taken against it by the PSC last year: "Moreover, in a move that ought to win it an award for chutzpah, Pepco is justifying $2.5 million of the new rate request to cover its costs for outside lawyers and consultants in the case decided against it in December. In other words, Pepco wants the same customers who have been suffering the effects of its inadequate upkeep to pick up the tab for experts who argued — unsuccessfully, thank heaven — that its reliability was fine all along." The only way, says McCarthy, to fix PEPCO is for consumers to unite and #fightforpower. Let's spread the word about this petition so we can keep the lights on!