Pennsylvania Continues to See Weak Growth in Residential Shopping

Pennsylvania saw negligible improvement in the growth rate of residential electric shopping in the most recent week, according to the latest stats from the PUC.

Link to PUC's 3/6/13 Weekly Migration Report

Matters has also developed a comparison of the migration levels from the 3/13/13 Report to the 3/20/13 Report.

Link to Matters' Comparison of Weekly Migration

In the aggregate, Pennsylvania saw another week of meager residential shopping growth. From about March 14 to March 20 (reporting date varies slightly by utility), the state, in aggregate, saw growth in residential shopping of only 3,900 accounts, up slightly from the week-ago growth of 3,700, but still only one-third of the growth levels seen in late 2012.

Matters has previously examined the slowdown in migration in light of the PUC's minimal changes to the retail market structure as contained in its end-state retail market order (see prior story)

Specifically, the weekly net growth (loss) in residential shoppers at each utility from about March 14 to about March 20 was as follows:

Duquesne Light         382
Met-Ed               1,173
PECO                 1,031
Penelec                459
Penn Power              90
PPL                    753
West Penn Power         60