Little Sign of Recovery in Pennsylvania Shopping Growth

Pennsylvania again saw only marginal 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 3/27/13 Weekly Migration Report

Matters has also developed a comparison of the migration levels from the 3/20/13 Report to the 3/27/13 Report.

Link to Matters' Comparison of Weekly Migration

In the aggregate, Pennsylvania saw another week of relatively low residential shopping growth when compared to the growth in late 2012.

From about March 21 to March 27 (reporting date varies slightly by utility), the state, in aggregate, saw growth in residential shopping of only 4,400 accounts, up slightly from the week-ago growth of 3,900 accounts, but still only about half of the growth levels seen in late 2012.

Specifically, the weekly net growth (loss) in residential shoppers at each utility from about March 21 to about March 27 was as follows:

Duquesne Light         367
Met-Ed               1,330
PECO                 1,150
Penelec                776
Penn Power             134
PPL                    607
West Penn Power         77