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
David  A.  Brune 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
$200,000,000 principal amount of Medium-Term Notes, Series  G  of
said  Company, maturing not more than thirty years after the date
as  of  which  they are issued, all as authorized by  Resolutions
adopted  by the Board of Directors of Baltimore Gas and  Electric
Company  at a meeting held July 24, 1997, 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 G, to any
and  all  amendments to any registration statement in respect  to
said  Medium-Term  Notes,  Series G, 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 24th day of July,
1997.


                                          Signature


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


Principal Financial and                /s/ David A. Brune
                                   --------------------------
  Accounting Officer                       David A. Brune
                                        Vice President


                                             Exhibit 24
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                                             Power of Attorney
                                             in connection with
                                             the registering of
                                             not exceeding $200
                                             million of Medium-
                                             Term Notes, Series G







                            Directors


       /s/ Dan A. Colussy              /s/ Michael D. Sullivan

       /s/ Freeman A. Hrabowski        /s/ George L. Russell, Jr.

       /s/ George V. McGowan           /s/ Jerome W. Geckle

       /s/ J. Owen Cole

       /s/ E. A. Crooke

       /s/ Nancy Lampton

       /s/ H. Furlong Baldwin





Dated:  July 24,1997