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Antitrust Group Opposes Pepco Takeover

The purchase of District power utility Pepco by Chicago-based Exelon is, as it stands now, a bad deal for District electricity customers. Pepco customers can gripe now about cut-down trees or power...

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Council Guts Study of Pepco Alternatives

The District won't be studying the creation of a city-owned power company after all. Despite residents' grievances with Pepco (and the potential that a pending takeover will make it all worse), the...

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Commission Denies Exelon Takeover of Pepco

The District's Public Service Commission denied Exelon's takeover of Pepco this morning, blocking the purchase by the Chicago-based utility of the District's only local power company. Four other...

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Nuclear Fallout: Is the Pepco-Exelon Merger Really Dead?

On Thursday, a smattering of activists, councilmembers, and non-profit types will head to Freedom Plaza to protest something that the District has heard a lot about lately: the takeover of local power...

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Bowser Circulates Tentative Pepco-Exelon Settlement

The District government is quietly shopping a settlement with Pepco and Exelon over the planned merger between the power companies, according to people who have seen the tentative agreement. The deal...

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Bowser Settles in Exelon-Pepco Merger for $78 Million

After circulating a tentative agreement with Pepco and Exelon on Friday, Muriel Bowser settled with the power companies and backed Exelon's takeover of Pepco. In an afternoon press conference, Bowser...

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FreshPAC Chair Says He Didn’t Actually Lobby on Exelon-Pepco Deal

A lot was strange about FreshPAC, the late political action committee created to help Muriel Bowser. Still, maybe the strangest FreshPAC story involved PAC chairman Earl "Chico" Horton, who registered...

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Activists Question FreshPAC Chairman’s Lobbying Report

Former FreshPAC chairman Chico Horton didn't lobby Muriel Bowser's administration on Exelon's takeover of Pepco—or so he says. Some activists aren't convinced so convinced. In a letter to the Board of...

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What Happened to the Business Community’s Clout?

In October, At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman dropped the legislative equivalent of a progressive bomb from the D.C. Council dais. The legislation from Silverman and At-Large Councilmember David...

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Public Service Commission Rejects Exelon-Pepco Deal, Then Proposes Another One

After the D.C. Public Service Commission voted today to again reject Exelon's takeover of Pepco today, opponents of the merger cheered. But the excitement may prove premature. After rejecting the...

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