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BGE avoids major outages during snowstorm

Thank you to the more than 3,000 BGE employees who helped maintain and restore power for our customers as snow, sleet and ice moved across our region. We thank our customers for their patience as we safely managed any outages.- BGE’s Facebook page

(Baltimore, MD) -- Baltimore Gas and Electric says about 1,000 customers lost power during the recent snowstorm.

BGE serves about 1.2 million people.

They said they were proud of their performance and added increased charges have allowed the utility company to improve infrastructure for these types of moments.

Across the country, more than one-million Americans lost power.

Maryland in general had some of the fewest power outages in the region with just 280, according to poweroutage.com.