The District’s consumer-advocate agency is seeking to dismiss a request for a rate increase by the area’s largest power provider. In a new filing with the D.C. Public Service Commission, the Office of the People’s Counsel is attempting to block Pepco from raising rates once again.

“The time has come for the Commission to hold Pepco accountable for its poor quality distribution service to District of Columbia customers,” the agency said in the official filing. “Few things touch the daily lives of 21st Century consumers more than persistent, prolonged, and often unexplained electrical service outages.”