patching...
Welcome back, Patch Blogger!

Streetlights

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Pepco Intros New Streetlight Outage Reporting Map

The new Bing map makes it easy to report streetlight outages.

The next time you spot a burned-out streetlight, try Pepco's new upgraded online streetlight outage reporting system. It's an easy system to use. At the "Report a Streetlight or Area Light Problem" page of Pepco's website, one may enter in the streetlight pole's number or an address in the vicinity of the streetlight, and one will be presented with a Bing map indicating where all of the streetlights are located in that area. Hover the cursor over the green dot representing the streetlight that is out, and one will get a pop-up menu with a link allowing one to "click here to report a problem for this light." "Once a streetlight problem is reported, the new reporting system sends the customer an email with a tracking number, location and …

Got a Hot Tip?