News Release

New All-Time Record for Electric Use Set For Third Consecutive Day

August 9, 2007

For the third consecutive day, Huntsville Utilities' customers pushed electricity use to record levels.

At 5:00 p.m., the hourly peak demand for electricity reached 1,184.5 megawatts.

Today's record surpassed the record established yesterday by over six megawatts. The record set Wednesday was 1,178 megawatts.