Pepco

• WASHINGTON -- Pepco reports on Twitter that power has been restored to about half of the more than 440,000 customers who lost power as a result of Fridays storm in the D.C. area.
(Huffington Post)
• The Washington, D.C., area experienced incredibly severe storms on Friday night, the kind that, with an unprecedented number of downed trees, can only lead to extensive power disruptions -- 1.
(Huffington Post)
• All of them, except for Mr. Mendelson, were ward members of the council and wanted to make sure their constituents received as much attention - or even free bags of ice - as the other wards.
(Washington Times)
• Nobody is blaming Pepco for last Fridays violent storm, or for the hurricane-force winds that left more than a million people in the Washington region sweltering without power in 100-degree heat.
(Washington Examiner)
• For the past year, Pepco's multimillion-dollar TV and print ad campaign has promised that "We're ready for everything," as a utility worker vows in a TV spot called "Reliability.
(Washington Post)
• D.C. mayor Vincent Gray is criticizing Pepcos restoration efforts and says the utility needs to move faster at getting the power back on for the thousands of residents still in the dark.
(WAMU)
• Trees might have fallen in every direction during Friday's storm, but on Monday most fingers pointed directly at Pepco as Montgomery County residents still waited for the utility to fully restore power.
(Maryland Community Newspapers Online)
• At the peak of the outage, 443,000 customers across Pepco's service area lost power. By 11 a.m. Monday, power was returned to about 50 percent. In Prince George's County, 59,000 lacked power and in the District of Columbia, 40,500.
(Maryland Community Newspapers Online)
• On Friday, June 29, 2012 a violent storm passed through the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area leaving at least five dead. The storm looked like something out of horror movie, said Nicole Davis of Rockville, Maryland.
(Examiner)
• Pepco announced this week that it will expand its residential demand response program, Energy Wise Rewards, with Comverge to 300,000 customers across its territory, an increase of 50,000 from the original agreement.
(Greentech Media)