Residential Shopping Growth Slows in Pennsylvania

Last week saw Pennsylvania's residential shopping growth slip versus the immediately prior week, with the FirstEnergy utilities continuing to be the only EDCs seeing net gains in residential shopping.

From about July 17 to July 23 (reporting date varies slightly by utility), Pennsylvania saw the total number of residential accounts on competitive supply increase by just under 1,000, or a 40% drop from the week-ago growth of over 1,600.

Specifically, from about July 17 to July 23 (reporting date varies slightly by utility) the weekly change in the number of residential customers on competitive supply was:

Duquesne Light         (227)
Met-Ed                  694
PECO                   (324)
Penelec                 540
Penn Power               51
PPL                    (404)
West Penn Power         650

For comparison, from about July 10 to July 16 (reporting date varies slightly by utility) the weekly change in the number of residential customers on competitive supply was:

Duquesne Light         (164)
Met-Ed                1,123
PECO                   (218)
Penelec                 494
Penn Power              103
PPL                    (334)
West Penn Power         630