News Release

New All-Time Record for Electric Use Set For Fifth Time This Summer

August 15, 2007

For the second time this week and the fifth time in two weeks, Huntsville Utilities' customers pushed electricity use to record levels on Wednesday.

At 5:00 p.m., the hourly peak demand for electricity reached 1198.9 megawatts.

Today's record surpassed the previous record established on Tuesday, August 14 by over 12 megawatts. That record was 1,186.9 megawatts.