Residential Customers Continuing to Leave Competitive Supply at PPL

PPL started the new year seeing a continuation of the trend of fewer residential customers on competitive supply, as was seen in most of the month of December, according to the latest stats from the Pennsylvania PUC.

Link to 1/11/12 Weekly Migration Report

Matters has also compiled a comparison of the migration levels from the 1/4/12 Report to the 1/11/12 Report.

Link to Matters' Comparison of Weekly Migration

From January 1 to January 7, PPL saw the number of residential customers on competitive supply decline by 473 accounts. Due to reporting gaps, a week-ago comparison is unavailable, but from December 10 to December 31, the decline in residential migration at PPL was only 419 accounts.

For the most recent week, PECO saw residential migration growth of 1,500 accounts, essentially steady with the week-ago growth of 1,600 accounts.

Duquesne Light saw residential migration increase by 1,400 accounts in the most recent week; a week-ago comparison is not available.

From December 29 through January 11, the FirstEnergy utilities saw the number of residential accounts on competitive supply grow as follows (a weekly breakdown is not available due to a gap in reporting last week):

Met-Ed: +7,593

Penelec: +3,233

Penn Power: +449

West Penn Power: +1,516