Pamela Witmer is a commissioner with the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, which is charged with ensuring electric rates in Pennsylvania remain competitive. She writes about how small businesses can benefit by shopping for electricity. In early February, Pennsylvania surpassed 2 million residential and business customers using a competitive supplier for their electric service. Just three years ago, as the last of the long-term generation rate caps on electricity supply expired, only about 337,600 electric customers were using a competitive supplier or shopping. While achieving this milestone is significant, it is quite frankly not good enough. Shopping for an electricity supplier to serve your business’ needs has never been easier. As a starting point, you can visit http://www.PAPowerswitch.com and within minutes view competitive, money-saving offers from any number of suppliers. It is exciting that two out of every five small businesses within the Commonwealth have already shopped for their electricity and are saving money right now. Switching electric generation suppliers (EGSs) is easy to do, and can save businesses hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars a month.
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