Comments for Electric Advisors, Inc. http://electricadvisors.com Energy choice for business Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:56:17 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on EA and your utility by Bob Woods http://electricadvisors.com/2011/01/28/utility-choice-storms-utility-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1280 Bob Woods Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:56:17 +0000 http://electricadvisors.com/?p=1629#comment-1280 Thanks for the comment, appreciate it. Thanks for the comment, appreciate it.

]]> Comment on EA and your utility by esteban http://electricadvisors.com/2011/01/28/utility-choice-storms-utility-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1278 esteban Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:34:11 +0000 http://electricadvisors.com/?p=1629#comment-1278 The TRUTH about Pepco Learn the facts There are no justifications for Pepco’s unpreparedness for storms that left hundreds of thousands without power, not for hours, not for a day, but for many days. Pepco now says it will take five years and $256.3 million to improve quality and reliability of service. Senior Vice President of operations at Pepco, Mike Sullivan, when asked if he was disappointed by Pepco's response, said: “I think we did a reasonable job of restoring power. I'm not embarrassed by what we did.” Pepco is ranked among the worst power providers in surveys of day-to-day reliability. During the last five years, Pepco has demanded and received a doubling of utility rates that people in Maryland and the entire DC area have had to pay. Undoubtedly more rate hikes are on the horizon. Profits are at an all-time high for Pepco, allowing Pepco Holdings Inc. to move up from 279 in the Fortune 500 for 2008 to 254 in the Fortune 500 for 2009. Pepco’s biggest investors, including the biggest banks, are making money hand over fist. Pepco Holdings made $10.7 billion in revenue and $300 million in profits in 2009. Assets worth $16.5 billion, a market value of over $2.85 billion and almost $4.2 billion in stockholders' equity. Pepco executives and its board of directors receive obscene levels of payment. Pepco Holdings CEO and President Joseph Rigby received compensation in 2009 exceeding $3 million. In 2008, former CEO Dennis Wraase received compensation exceeding over $9 million -- that's nearly $25,000 a day. Electricity is a right! No one should be forced to choose between buying food and keeping the lights on at home. Not one penny of profit should go to pay a dividend or continue the payment of huge management salaries until the scandalous failures of Pepco are corrected. We demand: A moratorium on shut offs 50 percent rollback in rates Justice First JusticeFirst.org 202-265-0333 The TRUTH about Pepco
Learn the facts
There are no justifications for Pepco’s unpreparedness for storms that left hundreds of thousands without power, not for hours, not for a day, but for many days.
Pepco now says it will take five years and $256.3 million to improve quality and reliability of service.
Senior Vice President of operations at Pepco, Mike Sullivan, when asked if he was disappointed by Pepco’s response, said: “I think we did a reasonable job of restoring power. I’m not embarrassed by what we did.”
Pepco is ranked among the worst power providers in surveys of day-to-day reliability.
During the last five years, Pepco has demanded and received a doubling of utility rates that people in Maryland and the entire DC area have had to pay. Undoubtedly more rate hikes are on the horizon.
Profits are at an all-time high for Pepco, allowing Pepco Holdings Inc. to move up from 279 in the Fortune 500 for 2008 to 254 in the Fortune 500 for 2009.
Pepco’s biggest investors, including the biggest banks, are making money hand over fist. Pepco Holdings made $10.7 billion in revenue and $300 million in profits in 2009. Assets worth $16.5 billion, a market value of over $2.85 billion and almost $4.2 billion in stockholders’ equity.
Pepco executives and its board of directors receive obscene levels of payment. Pepco Holdings CEO and President Joseph Rigby received compensation in 2009 exceeding $3 million. In 2008, former CEO Dennis Wraase received compensation exceeding over $9 million — that’s nearly $25,000 a day.
Electricity is a right! No one should be forced to choose between buying food and keeping the lights on at home. Not one penny of profit should go to pay a dividend or continue the payment of huge management salaries until the scandalous failures of Pepco are corrected.

We demand:

A moratorium on shut offs
50 percent rollback in rates
Justice First
JusticeFirst.org
202-265-0333

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