FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Betty Kennedy: 609-625-5567
betty.kennedy@pepcoholdings.com

Atlantic City Electric and its sister PHI power delivery companies are sending nearly 60 linemen and support personnel to assist Louisiana-based Cleco Corp. restore power in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita.

Convoys of bucket trucks, derricks and other support vehicles will leave Saturday morning from various locations in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland for the approximately 1,300-mile journey.

This initiative has been coordinated with several mutual assistance groups in which Atlantic City Electric, Delmarva Power and Pepco are members. Under the mutual assistance arrangement, member utilities help each other recover from disasters.

"Our thoughts are with the people of the Gulf Coast states who are again being uprooted, and we're answering the call for help from the electric utilities in the area that are still reeling from Hurricane Katrina," said Mike Maxwell, PHI Vice President of Emergency Preparedness.

The PHI companies sent a similar contingent to Mississippi earlier this month to assist in the recovery from Katrina. Additional contract crews from PHI's utilities also have been released to join the new storm relief effort.

Atlantic City Electric, a public utility owned by Pepco Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: POM), provides safe, reliable and affordable regulated electric and natural gas delivery services to more than 500,000 customers in Southern New Jersey.