Pa. Starts Weekly Migration Reports; PECO Seeing 5,000+ Residential Enrollments Per Week

The Pennsylvania PUC has started issuing weekly electric migration reports.

Eventually the reports will be made available on the PA Power Switch Site; however, the PUC's web vendor is still in the process of adding links to the site.

Copies of the two recent reports are available below:

3/30/11 Weekly Migration Report

3/23/11 Weekly Migration Report

Matters has also compiled a comparison of the 3/30/11 report to 3/23/11 report, as well as to the January 1, 2011 Office of Consumer Advocate report, for the number of accounts migrated, both in aggregate and by customer class.

Comparison of Weekly and January Reports

The PECO territory saw a net gain of nearly 5,700 migrated residential customers from March 22, 2011 to March 29, 2011.

The PPL territory saw a net gain in migrated residential customers of more than 1,700 from March 19, 2011 to March 26, 2011.

Duquesne Light saw a weekly net gain in residential migration of nearly 2,200 customers, while Penelec saw a net increase of 929 migrated residential customers from March 23, 2011 to March 30, 2011.

Year-to-date, the net gain in migrated residential accounts is as follows:

PECO: 188,741

PPL: 21,148

Duquesne Light: 16,350

Current residential migration rates as a percent of customers are:

PPL: 36.9%

Duquesne Light: 23.97%

Penn Power: 15.9%

PECO: 15.0%

Residential migration is less than 1% of customers at Met-Ed, Penelec, and West Penn Power.

Regarding the surpassing of 1 million migrated customers last week, Richard Hudson, Pennsylvania State Chair for the Retail Energy Supply Association, said, "Reaching this milestone as quickly as we have is a testament to the value competitive suppliers bring to the customer and to the Commission's commitment to progressive energy market structures that mitigate energy costs, create jobs and foster innovation."