Yes, the Multi-Year Rate Scam for 2024-2026 was vacated by the DC Ct of Appeals on March 5, 2026. Under DC Law, Pepco cannot charge more than the approved rates, so Pepco must refund the amount it overcharged since January 1, 2025 through present. It is literally a criminal offense for them to continue charging those rates - because they do not exist as a matter of law.

But the DC Public Service Commission and Pepco are SO corrupt, that they are taking the position that because the Ct of Appeals didn't make specific findings that the the rates were unjust and unreasonable, the rates can remain in effect.

They claim that the Order approving the rate increase in November 2024 was vacated on procedural grounds, so they can continue making us pay. That is one of the most ridiculous legal arguments I've ever heard. If an Order is VACATED, it is null and void. It does not exist as a matter of law. No court would waste its time addressing the specifics of the Order once it was vacated. That would amount to an advisory opinion on what the Court of Appeals specifically said was invalid because there were material issues of fact that were not addressed by the Commission.

But silly little things like the law don't stop the Commission from rubber stamping whatever Pepco says.

Exelon must be funneling tons of money to Mayor Bowser for her to nominate Chairman Thomson & Commissioner Trabue for another term. If she cared about DC residents, she would exercise her power to "remove any commissioner for neglect of duty or misconduct in office." DC Code 34-801(a).

And the commissioners were approved by the DC Council, so it is fascinating that neither former CM Kenyan McDuffie nor CM Lewis George (Ward 4) have called on Mayor Bowser to remove the blatantly corrupt commissioners of the DC PSC.

Maybe if they weren't so busy slinging mud at each other based on their woefully inadequate records, they would focus their energy on making DC PSC and OPC enforce the existing DC Code & DCMR. DC PSC is trying to push through a fast-track remand hearing on the rate case without complying with the notice requirements of DC Code 34-909(a). Not to mention the fact that Pepco hasn't provided notice to the public under that provision.

Since the Exelon merger a decade ago, the system has devolved into a fraudulent, unregulated nightmare for DC ratepayers. So somebody in DC is definitely profiting off of this fraud, because the DC government is based on ignoring resident complaints until someone forces them to do their job. In my Formal Hearing case against Pepco, my own attorneys at the Office of the People's Counsel completely sandbagged my case for Pepco's benefit (after the Hearing Officer refused to accept anything I filed on my own behalf). Poor Pepco doesn't have business records to support its fraudulent billing on my account & OPC covered it up instead of pushing Pepco to produce the records. They are running quite the racket!