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According to the SCC emergency plan, all commercial and industrial customers of Potomac Edison will have to reduce electrical usage to plant maintenance levels when PE coal stocks drop to a 15 day supply. If the emergency continues, the Company may be forced to begin rotating black-outs, with electrical service turned off for two hours and then on for four hours.
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