Six of Seven Major Pennsylvania Utilities See Decline in Electric Shopping

Six of Pennsylvania's seven major electric distribution companies saw a decline in residential shopping over the past week, as migration back to default service prompted by polar vortex rates continues to roll into the migration reports as meter reads are completed.

Specifically, the weekly change in the number of residential customers on competitive supply from about March 6 to March 12 at each utility was (reporting date varies slightly by utility):

Duquesne Light         (401)
Met-Ed                 (972)
PECO                   (497)
Penelec                (733)
Penn Power               77
PPL                      (5)
West Penn Power        (725)

For comparison, the weekly change in the number of residential customers on competitive supply from about February 26 to March 5 at each utility was:

Duquesne Light         (445)
Met-Ed                 (614)
PECO                   (421)
Penelec                (165)
Penn Power              104
PPL                   1,005
West Penn Power         122