Exhibit 24
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               BALTIMORE GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
                                
                        POWER OF ATTORNEY


     KNOW  ALL  MEN  BY  THESE  PRESENTS,  that  the  undersigned
directors and  officers of  Baltimore Gas  and  Electric  Company
hereby constitute  and appoint C. H. Poindexter, E. A. Crooke and
C. W.  Shivery and  each of  them their true and lawful attorneys
and agents  to do  any and all acts and things and to execute, in
their name  any and  all instruments  which  said  attorneys  and
agents, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable to enable
said corporation  to comply  with the  Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and  any rules,  regulations  and  requirements  of  the
Securities  and   Exchange  Commission   in  respect  thereof  in
connection with  the registration under said Act of not exceeding
$225,000,000 principal  amount of  Medium-Term Notes, Series D of
said Company,  maturing not more than thirty years after the date
as of  which they are issued ($100,000,000 principal amount which
was  previously   registered  under  the  Act,  and  $125,000,000
principal amount  to be registered hereafter),  all as authorized
by Resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of Baltimore Gas
and Electric  Company at  a meeting held July 21, 1995, including
specifically,  but   without  limiting   the  generality  of  the
foregoing,  power   and  authority  to  sign  the  names  of  the
undersigned directors  and officers  in the  capacities indicated
below, to  any registration  statements  to  be  filed  with  the
Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of said Medium-Term
Notes, Series  D, to  any and  all amendments to any registration
statement in  respect to  said Medium-Term Notes, Series D, or to
any instruments  or documents  filed as  part of or in connection
with said registration statement or amendments to such documents;
and each of the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that
said attorneys  and agents,  or any of them, shall do or cause to
be done by virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS  WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has subscribed,
or caused to be subscribed, these presents this 21st day of July,
1995.

                                          Signature

                                     /s/ C. H. Poindexter
Principal Executive Officer   __________________________________
  and Director                          C. H. Poindexter
                              Chairman of the Board and Director


                                      /s/ C. W. Shivery
Principal Financial and       __________________________________
  Accounting Officer                    C. W. Shivery
                                        Vice President


                                             Exhibit 24
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                                             Power of Attorney
                                             in connection with
                                             the registering of
                                             not exceeding $225
                                             million of Medium-
                                             Term Notes, Series D
          






                            Directors



/s/ H. Furlong Baldwin            /s/ Martin L. Grass
                                                               

/s/ J. Owen Cole                  /s/ Freeman A. Hrabowski III
                                                               

/s/ Dan A. Colussy                /s/ Nancy Lampton
                                                               

/s/ Edward A. Crooke              /s/ George V. McGowan
                                                               

/s/ James R. Curtiss              /s/ George L. Russell, Jr.
                                                               

/s/ Jerome W. Geckle              /s/ Michael D. Sullivan
                                                               


Dated:  July 21, 1995