Pepco Holdings (POM)

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Pepco Holdings, Inc. operates as a diversified energy company. It operates in two divisions, Power Delivery and Competitive Energy. The Power Delivery division engages in the transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity; and the delivery and supply of natural gas. This division owns and operates a network of transmission or distribution facilities comprising wires, substations, and other equipment. As of December 31, 2009, it delivered electricity to approximately 1.8 million customers in the mid-Atlantic region and distributed natural gas to approximately 123,000 customers in Delaware. The Competitive Energy division involves in the competitive generation, marketing, and supply of electricity and natural gas; and provision of related energy management services primarily in the mid-Atlantic region. It provides wholesale electric power, capacity, and ancillary services in the wholesale markets and supplies electricity to other wholesale market participants under long and short-term bilateral contracts. This division owned and operated mid-merit plants with a combined 2,250 megawatts (MW) of capacity, peak-load plants with a combined 722 MW of capacity, and base-load generating plants with a combined 340 MW of capacity. It also provides energy savings performance contracting services to federal, state, and local government customers, as well as retail energy supply services to commercial, industrial, and government customers; and designs, constructs, and operates combined heat and power plants, and central energy plants. In addition, this division offers high and low voltage electric construction and maintenance services; and streetlight construction and asset management services to utilities, municipalities, and other customers in the Washington, D.C. area. Further, it owned 3 landfill gas-fired electricity plants with a total generating capacity of 10 MW. The company was founded in 1896 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.