Potomac Electric Power Company
Description
Potomac Electric Power Company pierces blackout veil with phone-delivered precision—13,000-volt cable erupts in flames on M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, severing power to 2,000 customers and stranding Josh's West Coast polling lifeline. As DC's utility nerve center, it dissects grid failures with rapid forensics, arming White House aides against operational collapse in shadowed strategy sessions.
Event Involvements
Events with structured involvement data
S2E13
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Bartlet's Third State of the Union
Josh's Blackout Fury: Polling Obsession Amid Power Chaos
Potomac Electric Power Company delivers outage forensics via Donna's phone—13,000-volt cable fire on M Street/Wisconsin affecting 2,000 customers from repair mishap—its relayed intel offers scant solace, spotlighting external grid failure crippling White House polling lifeline amid SOTU fallout gauging.
Active Representation
Through phone-delivered operational report to Donna
Power Dynamics
External utility holds disruptive leverage over polling ops via infrastructure control
Institutional Impact
Highlights vulnerability of political ops to urban infrastructure fragility
Organizational Goals
Diagnose and communicate outage cause accurately
Coordinate restoration to minimize customer impact
Influence Mechanisms
Technical expertise in grid forensics
Real-time info dissemination via hotline