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Your numbers seem off.  According to Washington Post, there are about 24K people total without power in the metro area.  Most of them are in Montgomery County.  We are considering buying a house there.  Any idea why restoration takes so long in MoCo?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/power-outage-status/2012/[/quote]

PP here.  I went to bge.com and pepco.com to get my numbers for the number of outages.  I only used WaPo for the total number of customers served by each company (that's where Google sent me).  Just going back, I see now that the 85000 number was posted yesterday morning for the numbers from end of day on Tuesday (7/3).  Today's update from PEPCO (which was posted after I made the previous post) says 15,444 customers or about 4% left powerless.  So, they've made significant headway in the last 48 hours.

And the restoration in MoCo takes so long because PEPCO does not spend enough money on maintaining and updating the infrastructure.  As has been pointed out above, PEPCO does not spend nearly enough money on tree trimming in areas with excessive tree cover that is near power lines.  If the trees were cut back further from the power lines, when they fell, they would be less likely to knock out power lines.  PEPCO has resisted putting power lines underground.  PEPCO has very old equipment and spends less money per customer on repairing and replacing aging equipment relative to the other power companies, so they end up with more equipment failures.  And on and on.  PEPCO needs to spend more money on the aging infrastructure, but is so tied to making a profit, giving raises and bonuses to executives and making dividends to the shareholders that they will skimp money on the infrastructure.  Their only answer to loud cries for infrastructure maintenance and upgrades is to pass on the full cost to the customers rather than subsidizing the cost out of profits and bonuses.  If this were a government agency, it would be one of the more corrupt agencies out there.[/quote]

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