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DeMorning Links: All eyes on Pepco Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) is back from China, and his first order of business has been to capture the Zeitgeist — that is, put the heat on Pepco. "They need to move faster," he said at a Monday news conference , his first since the Friday storm . "How many times have we been through this before?" He went on CNN Tuesday morning to continue the crusade, noting that Pepco customers ought to get a ... Pepco: 75 Percent Of Customer Power Restored Pepco employees, local contract crews and outside utility reinforcements have restored three out of every four outages from Friday's violent storm that left more than 443,000 customers without service. Mayor Gray says public is 'fed up' with Pepco outages Mayor Vincent C. Gray added his voice Monday to the list of leaders around the region angered by power outages and Pepco's slow restoration of electricity. Gray, who was wrapping up a trade mission to China during Friday's storm, returned to a city forced to close recreation centers and schools because of the outages and on a personal note, a Hillcrest home with no power. Read full article >> Pepco Power Restoration Efforts Under Fire From Customers, Politicians 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 Friday's storm" in the D.C. area. Cheh Calls for Pepco Investigation as Power Outages Drag On With 20,000 Pepco customers in the District still without power after last Friday's derecho storm, members of the D.C. Council are taking steps to inquire why so many people lost service and why, four days after the storm, so many are still in the dark. [ more › ] Outages put Pepco on multiple hot seats D.C. Council members planned to meet face-to-face with officials from Pepco as soon as Tuesday to address the "unacceptable" pace of the utility's recovery efforts after Friday night's fierce storm swept through the region and left hundreds of thousands without power in stifling heat. Their stern response to a third ... Pepco, Dominion and BGE cite severity of storm in explaining long recovery Politicians may not have been happy Sunday when power companies told customers that their electricity may not return until the end of the week, but the severity of Friday night's storm left utility officials opting for candor as work crews began to spread out to neighborhoods. Read full article >> Pepco: Power Restored To About Half Of Customers As of Monday morning, Pepco says they have restored power to about half of their customers who lost it due to Friday's storm.  Around 440,000 of the company's customers lost power as a result of the storm. Record This Diss Track: 'The Ballad of Pepco' Pepco got you down? We've got the lyrics to a song about just how much grief the utility inspires, now all we need is the music. [ more › ] Pepco restores power to high-voltage lines WASHINGTON (AP) — Pepco says it has restored power to all high-voltage transmission lines and all substations, a major step in getting power back to customers.
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