EC2(4) Customer Additions, by Sector

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Residential additions are the number of households; commercial and light industrial and large industrial additions are tallied by number of accounts. The customer count excludes inactive accounts, multi-meter groups except the master, accounts with all meters removed and unmetered service when the revenue category is the same as the metered service. Net additions account growth became stronger mainly due to the completion of apartments and townhouses in the beginning of fiscal 2008. Stronger economic growth translated to into new business and new account growth in the commercial and light industrial sector. The lower growth for the commercial and light industrial sector was mainly due to the reclassification of some commercial rooming houses to residential section. Large industrial growth is the result of a number of natural gas pumping stations coming on-line in fiscal 2008 due to the strong demand for natural gas.