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