2010 Report - Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Figure 38 Pennsylvania Power Company average of deviations in forecasts (%)18Industrial16141210864Commercial2Residential0-2-4-6Peak Load-8-10-122000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007Forecast YearPPL Electric Utilities CorporationPPL Electric Utilities Corporation (PPL), asubsidiary of PPL Corporation, provides service to1,398,461 homes and businesses over a 10,000-square-mile area in all or portions of 29 counties inCentral Eastern Pennsylvania. In 2009, PPL hadenergy sales totaling 37,623 GWh—down 3.8percent from 2008. Residential sales continued todominate PPL's market with 37.8 percent of the totalsales, followed by commercial (36.7 percent) and industrial (22.4 percent). Average annual use perresidential customer was 11,641 kWh at an average cost of 10.33 cents per kWh; operatingrevenues totaled $3.43 billion.Between 1994 and 2009, PPL's energy demand grew an average of 1.1 percent per year.Residential energy sales grew at an annual rate of 1.5 percent, and commercial sales grew at a 2.4percent rate. Industrial sales decreased at a rate of 0.8 percent, due mainly to an 11.9 percent dropin 2009 sales. The current five-year projection of average growth in energy demand is 0.9 percent.This includes growth rates of 0.2 percent for residential and 2.8 percent for commercial. Industrialsales are expected to continue to fall at an average rate of 0.9 percent per year. See Figure 39.44Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission