Though the number of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers having their power shut off has increased as the colder weather sets in, it's still fewer than the number of people who faced shut-offs this time last year, according to Public Service Commission records.

About 4,400 customers had the power to their homes cut off in September, the most recent month's data available. That's 7 percent fewer terminations than in September 2007.

The decreased number of turn-offs for this September may be a result of milder weather. A PSC report that compared two years of data from October 2006 through September 2008 stated that the cold...