Pennsylvania Sees Statewide Growth in Residential Electric Shopping

After two weeks of declining aggregate residential electric shopping levels, Pennsylvania has again seen statewide residential electric migration increase.

From about August 13 to August 20 (reporting date varies slightly by utility), Pennsylvania saw an increase of 1,000 residential customers on competitive supply, reversing the decline of 635 residential shoppers from the immediately prior week.

Specifically, from about August 13 to August 20 (reporting date varies slightly by utility) the weekly change in the number of residential customers on competitive supply was:

Duquesne Light         (398)
Met-Ed                  542
PECO                    970
Penelec                 304
Penn Power               44
PPL                    (224)
West Penn Power        (253)

For comparison, from about August 7 to August 13 (reporting date varies slightly by utility) the weekly change in the number of residential customers on competitive supply was:

Duquesne Light       (1,022)
Met-Ed                  244
PECO                  1,127
Penelec                 (10)
Penn Power               54
PPL                    (977)
West Penn Power         (51)