Experts: Pepco customers may have to pay more for better service

ANNAPOLIS – Marylanders who suffer from perpetually unreliable electricity service might have to start paying a premium for better service, even though they already pay the 13th-highest power rates in the nation, energy experts said Tuesday.

“Reliability — it all boils down to money,” said Rajnish Barua, executive director of the National Regulatory Research Institute, which offers consulting services to utility regulators. “It depends on how much you want to pay for it.”