Posts Tagged ‘Pepco’

PEPCO Continues to Suck


courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
According to a tipster, readers on South Capitol and 2nd St SW may be without power from 8pm to 7:30am tonight due to transformer repairs in the area.  This is all well and good, except that PEPCO neglected to notify customers in the neighborhood that they would be without [...]

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DC Fire/EMS/Police Communications Down For Five Hours

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Pepco Starts Giving Rebates for Energy-Efficient Appliances

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Don’t get shocked

‘Crecent Lightning’
courtesy of ‘Cazimiro’
It looks cool but it’s less pleasant to get hit by it. According to Pepco lightning strikes kill 400 people in the US every year – most of them in June, July, and August. So they’ve offered up this selection of tips for how to stay safer in a storm.
They don’t offer [...]

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Pepco Goes Green?

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Who Should Fill HBO’s Shoes?

‘Screen on the Green’
courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’
I’m sure you’ve heard by now that HBO has canceled their sponsorship of the famous Screen on the Green summer movie program on the national mall. This is making DC’ers everywhere sad. Which, if you’re an area company, totally leaves room for you to step in and be the hero.
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Pepco twitters… tell them what for

‘Towers of Power at Sunrise’
courtesy of ‘macmoov’
While I mean that in a “give em hell” sense, there’s also an opportunity to tell them exactly how you’d like to see them use this new tool. Their social media lead, Andre, sent us a message which asked us to share this with y’all:
We launched an online survey to [...]

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside. And In.

‘6th St Row in Snow’
courtesy of ‘daveinshaw’
Last week’s Thrifty District story was eerily familiar to me. My good friend Rebecca, over at Inspiration DC, has gone through almost the exact same Pepco disaster that Tiff featured in her post. She’s got a 700-square foot apartment, top floor of a building in eastern market, with two [...]

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