The price to compare will decrease slightly for residential and small commercial customers on the utility's default supply service.

For small business customers, the new price to compare will be 10.206 cents per kilowatt-hour, compared with 10.346 cents per kilowatt-hour currently.

A full list of PPL Electric Utilities' new rates for all rate classes can be found at www.pplelectric.com/choice.

For residential customers, the new price to compare will be 7.544 cents per kilowatt-hour, down from 7.907 cents per kilowatt-hour currently.

The utility's generation and transmission rates combined make up the “price to compare” for the purposes of shopping among alternative suppliers.

The components of the price to compare make up about two-thirds of the typical residential monthly bill for non-shopping customers. The price to compare does not include the distribution charges on a customer's bill, which apply to all customers and cover the company's costs to deliver power and provide customer service.

While usage is higher in the winter and summer months, this has been offset by falling energy prices, resulting in a small decrease to the price to compare for the December 2012 through February 2013 period.