Pennsylvania May Gas Migration Report Shows Large Jump in Residential Shopping at PECO

Pennsylvania's May report on migration to competitive natural gas supply shows a large jump in the number of residential customers taking competitive gas supply at PECO.

Link to PUC May migration report

Matters has also developed a comparison of the natural migration levels in April 2012 versus May 2012

Link to Matters comparison of migration data

Matters notes that the PUC May chart contains totals for National Fuel Gas Distribution and PECO that are inconsistent with the sum of the individual class data listed on the same chart for each company. In this story, Matters refers to the residential migration levels as listed on the same PUC chart, but such data may be inaccurate.

As listed on the PUC's May report, some 26,626 residential gas customers at PECO were taking competitive supply in May, which represents growth of 6,800 migrated residential accounts versus April. This is up from the growth in monthly residential migration during April at PECO, which had been 2,250 accounts.

From April to May, the number of residential customers on competitive gas supply at UGI Utilities - Gas Division increased by 1,100 accounts, down from the April growth of 2,800.

Other notable growth in the number of residential customers on competitive supply during May, versus the April total, was seen at the following distribution companies:

Columbia Gas: +532

National Fuel Gas Distribution: +316

Peoples Natural Gas: +368

UGI Penn Natural Gas: +101