Customer demand for electricity was high Wednesday (7/26) at Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. and on the five-state, regional power pool, but no new electricity use records were set.

"Electricity use was high today and we expect it to stay at near-record levels Thursday (7/27), but our plants are performing very well and there is adequate supply to meet the demand," said Barry Trayers, PP&L's manager of Bulk Power System Operations. "Unless there is an unexpected loss of major generation, the situation looks good for the rest of the week."

According to unofficial numbers, PP&L customers used 5,722,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. today. The PP&L summertime customer use record is 5,777,000 kwh, set July 14. The all-time PP&L customer use record is 6,508,000 kwh, set Feb. 6, 1995.

Customers of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection, the 11-utility power pool that includes PP&L, used 46,070,000 kwh today between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. The all-time PJM use record is 46,728,000 million kwh, set July 14.

PP&L supplies power to about 1.2 million customers in Central Eastern Pennsylvania. PJM coordinates the distribution of power to more than 22 million customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C.