Pennsylvania Retail Market Slide Continues

Pennsylvania saw another week in which the loss of residential electric shoppers topped 6,000, according to the latest stats from the PUC.

Specifically, the Pennsylvania retail electric market lost nearly 6,500 residential customers on competitive supply from about April 10 to April 16. This is an improvement from the week-ago loss of nearly 10,000 residential shoppers.

From about April 10 to April 16 (reporting date varies slightly by utility) the weekly change in the number of residential customers on competitive supply was:

Duquesne Light         (867)
Met-Ed                 (856)
PECO                   (306)
Penelec                (746)
Penn Power              (50)
PPL                  (2,047)
West Penn Power      (1,587)

For comparison, the weekly change in the number of residential customers on competitive supply from about April 3 to April 9 at each utility was:

Duquesne Light       (1,229)
Met-Ed               (1,277)
PECO                   (589)
Penelec              (1,449)
Penn Power             (229)
PPL                  (2,549)
West Penn Power      (2,234)