The Public Service Commission continues to consider Pepco's rate case application to raise rates by 20% over three years, despite Maryland already rejecting Pepco’s proposal. If approved, this would only worsen DC’s crisis of energy injustice, with energy rates already so unaffordable, 1 in 5 residents are in debt to the utility. While Pepco claims these costs are necessary for decarbonization goals, the Office of the People’s Council found that 95% of the proposed investments cannot be tied to any reductions in greenhouse gasses.

Despite hundreds of public comments against the multiyear rate hike, the PSC still has not reached a decision. This regulatory neglect in the face of rabid pursuit of profit on the backs of DC’s poorest residents is exactly why DC needs a utility that is owned by and accountable to the people of DC—we need public power now.

Write a letter today to the DC Council, demanding they ask the PSC to rein in Pepco's spending and put DC residents over the utility's profit margin.

In solidarity,

We Power DC