The PSC is continuing its pattern of privileging Pepco at the expense of DC residents. Following the appeals court’s vacatur of Order No. 22328, the PSC has released a response that would keep the vacated rates in place by exploiting a legal gray area instead of restoring the prior lawful rates. It has also established a sham procedural schedule that gives advocates and community stakeholders only six business days to prepare evidence and witnesses for a hearing whose scope remains unclear.

The PSC’s strategy is to extend the would-be-defunct rates for as long as possible while waiting for further court action to close the loophole. That process could take months. Meanwhile, electricity debt has risen by more than 50% over the last year, and roughly one-quarter of DC residents are already in electricity debt.

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.

Join us in telling the PSC that DC residents and community stakeholders condemn the games they are playing by sending a letter right now!

In solidarity,

We Power DC