Residential Migration Growth Rate at BGE, Pepco Steady in March Stats

The Maryland PSC has posted electric migration statistics for the month ending March 2011.

The PSC's as-filed statistics are linked here.

Matters' comparison of select statistics with the February 2011 data is available here (compares total accounts migrated as well as percent of accounts migrated).

Notable statistics include:

- Total residential migration at BGE increased by 8,463 net accounts since February, essentially even with the 8,755 net growth in accounts from January to February.

- Total residential migration at Pepco increased by 2,181 net accounts since February, again essentially flat versus the about 2,000 accounts recorded in net growth from January to February.

- Residential migration at BGE is 18.7% of accounts

- Residential migration at Pepco is 15.2% of accounts

Note that the PSC charts contain an apparent error in the aggregation of totals for the switches from/to a supplier chart; specifically, the totals for BGE and Pepco in Column I are each inverted (i.e. the total in Line 86 is actually totaling Line 87, and vice versa.