MEDIA ADVISORY

Pepco Beats Global Restoration Estimate by Two Days
Today, Crews Restore Power to 90 Percent of 443,000 Customers Affected by Storm

Today, Pepco beat by two days its global restoration estimate to restore power to 90 percent of its customers who lost power as a result of Friday's violent storm.
Originally, the utility projected to have 90 percent of customer outages restored by 11 p.m., Friday, July 6.
Since the peak of the storm, Pepco has restored nearly 400,000 customers.

The global estimated restoration time for remaining customers without power is still late Friday evening.
Pockets of customers will not have their power restored until sometime this weekend, but no later than Sunday evening.

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Pepco, a subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: POM), delivers safe, reliable and affordable electric service to more than 788,000 customers in Maryland and the District of Columbia.