4:00 a.m. Outage Update

For Immediate Release
September 23, 2003, 4:00 a.m.

4:00 a.m. Outage Update

Despite storms over night, Pepco crews continued working to restore service as quickly as possible. Currently 135,000 customers remain without power. Pepco estimates that nearly all customers will have power restored by Friday.

Pepco urges customers to call in if they are still without power and notice that their neighbors have regained power. The number to call is 1-877-PEPCO-62.

As of 4:00 a.m., today, the following outages are reported on the Pepco system:

Area	Total Customers	Affected Customers
District of Columbia	224,000	35,000
Montgomery County	286,000	60,000
Prince George`s County	210,000	40,000
Totals	720,000	135,000

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About Pepco: For more than 100 years, Pepco has served the people of the Washington metropolitan area with clean, reliable and low-cost electricity. Pepco, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: POM), provides electricity transmission and distribution services to more than 700,000 customers in the District of Columbia and major portions of Prince George`s and Montgomery County in Maryland.

Point of Contact:
Robert Dobkin