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these regions did not escape the significant increases experienced <br /> by all regions in 2001.As previously shown, natural gas prices were very <br /> high in 2000-2001, and this is likely an important factor in the increase. <br /> Also in 2001 dysfunctional power markets led to large rate increases <br /> in western states. These increases would affect the 2001 national <br /> rates, but none of the regions shown in the chart. Thus, it is not <br /> surprising that national rates show a larger percentage increase than <br /> the chosen regions. <br /> Retail Choice and Revenue <br /> Per Kilowatt-Hour <br /> ETA began collecting separate information for full-service electric <br /> customers and unbundled (retail choice) customers for the 2000 <br /> statistical year. However, ETA has not performed any significant <br /> • analysis of prices in the retail choice environment, most likely <br /> ...the data are not <br /> because the data are not detailed enough to draw any conclusions <br /> detailed enough <br /> in regard to the basic question: Are customers better off or worse <br /> to draw any off purchasing power from alternate energy suppliers? <br /> conclusions in <br /> regard to the For unbundled electricity sales, volume and revenue data are <br /> basic question: reported in two parts. The power supplier reports the energy-only <br /> Are customers portion, and the regulated utility reports the delivery-only portion. <br /> better off or Sales are reported on an annual basis, but power suppliers are only <br /> worse off required to aggregate totals by state, not by utility service territory. <br /> purchasing power There is no way of knowing which energy-only sales should be <br /> from alternate combined with a utility's delivery service, and therefore the total price <br /> energy suppliers? paid by a utility's retail choice customers cannot be determined. <br /> For example, in Pennsylvania there were eight utilities providing <br /> delivery-only service to residential customers in 2001, and 21 power <br /> suppliers providing energy to these customers. Pennsylvania's <br /> bundled (full-service) residential customers paid, per kilowatt-hour, <br /> 8 Electricity Price Trends <br />