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Maryland regulators order utilities to improve reliability

By Kate Jacobson
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Maryland regulators order utilities to improve reliability

Maryland regulators ordered power companies such as Pepco to improve their systems to make them more reliable after storms.

The new rules, released Wednesday by the Maryland Public Service Commission, come in the wake of last summer’s derecho, when about 992,000 customers statewide experienced outages and about 32 million hours of service were interrupted.

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