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PE Customers Up
Use of Electricity
Residential customers of The Potomac Edison Company, for the second consecutive year, increased their use of electricity in the home at a record-breaking pace.
Figures released by the utility company trnow that in 1968, the average residential customer increased the use of electricity by 552 kilowatt houls over the previous year. This is the largest year-to-year gain in the history of the company, according to i officials. The previous high was ; 467 kilowatt hours, set in 1967. ij The gain for 1968 brings the annual average use per customer to 6,797 kilowatt hours, which is I well above the national average.
While the use of electricity went up, Potomac Edison reported another decline in the cost. The average cost per residential kilowatt hour last year was 2.15 cents, compared with 2.18 cents in 1967.
By operating districts, following is the average kilowatt hour use per residential customer in 1968:
Frederick — 8,334; Hagerstown
7,664; Waynesboro — 7,114; Winchester — 6,885; Martinsburg — 6,711; Luray — 6,649; Cumberland - 5,647; Romney — 5,579; and Frostburg — 5,398.
86.7%