Utility output down 2.3% year on year in week ended Saturday: EEI
Washington (Platts)--2Oct2013/552 pm EDT/2152 GMT
US utilities generated 71,574 GWh in the week that ended Saturday,
down 2.3% from the 73,293 GWh generated in the corresponding week of
2012, the Edison Electric Institute said Wednesday.
The weekly total was 3,650 GWh below the 75,224 GWh produced in the week
that ended September 21, EEI said.
Output fell in six of the nine regions EEI tracks. The Rocky Mountain
saw the steepest percentage dropoff, fall 13% year on year to 4,772 GWh.
The next largest percentage decrease was the Pacific Southwest's 9.9% to
5,425 GWh. Smaller declines were seen in New England, the Mid-Atlantic,
the Southeast and South Central.
Year-to-date utility generation was 3.034 million GWh, 0.7% below the
3.055 million GWh for the same period of 2012, EEI said.
--Paul Ciampoli,
paul.ciampoli@platts.com
--Edited by Jeff Barber,
jeff.barber@platts.com
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