2009 Report - Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Met-Ed’s summer peak load, occurring on June 10, 2008, was 3,045
megawatts (MW), representing an increase of 7.8 percent from last year’s system
peak of 2,825 MW. The 2008-09 winter peak load was 2,622 MW or 5.0 percent
higher than the previous year’s winter peak of 2,498 MW.
The actual average annual peak load growth rate over the past 15 years
was 3.0 percent. Met-Ed’s forecast shows its peak load dropping from 3,045 MW
to 2,829 MW in 2009 (7.1 percent) and increasing thereafter to 3,158 MW by 2013,
or a four-year average annual growth rate of 2.8 percent. The current forecast for
2009 is one percent below the previous forecast. See Figure 2.7.
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Figure 2.7 Metropolitan Edison Company
Historic & Forecast Peak Load
3,100
3,000
2,900
Megawatts
2,800
2,700
2,600
2,500
2,400
2,300
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Tables 2.8-2.11 provide Met-Ed’s forecasts of peak load and residential,
commercial and industrial energy demand from 1999 through 2009.
A restructuring settlement, approved by the Commission in 1998, provided
for the transfer of 80 percent of Met-Ed’s Provider of Last Resort (PLR)
responsibility to other generation suppliers by June 2003. Since this did not occur,
Met-Ed retains PLR responsibility for those customers who do not choose an
alternate energy supplier and currently supplies nearly all of its PLR customers.
Met-Ed divested most of its generation facilities in 1999. Met-Ed sold the
York Haven generating station (19.4 MW) during 2007.
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