2010 Report - Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Figure 50 UGI Utilities Inc. peak load (MW)220HistoricForecast2152102052002008200920101951901851802000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Citizens’ Electric CompanyCitizens’ Electric Company (Citizens’) providesservice to 6,814 customers in Union County,Pennsylvania. In 2009, Citizens’ had retailenergy sales totaling 160 GWh, down 4.8 percentfrom 2008. Residential sales accounted for 49.8percent of Citizens’ total sales, followed byindustrial (32.6 percent) and commercial (17.2percent). Average annual use per residentialcustomer was 14,062 kWh at an average cost of11.45 cents per kWh; operating revenues totaled $18.7 million.Between 1994 and 2009, Citizens’ experienced a sales growth that has averaged 0.3 percentannually, due in part to a 4.8 percent drop in 2009. Residential and commercial sales haveincreased at annual rates of 1.0 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively. Industrial sales decreased atan average annual rate of 1.2 percent. Over the next five years, Citizens’ expects total energydemand growth to average 0.7 percent, following a slight decrease in 2010. Growth rates are thesame (0.7 percent) for all three sectors. See Figure 51.Citizens’ 2009-10 winter peak load, occurring on Jan. 11, 2010, was 38.7 MW, a 4.6 percentdecrease from the winter peak of 2008. The 2009 summer peak load was 34.4 MW. Peak load56Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission