Earlier this month, we submitted a joint petition for non-unanimous settlement to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) requesting approval for an increase in base distribution rates. The proposed settlement reflects months of public review and compromise, ensuring customers receive safe, reliable electric service while maintaining strong protections for affordability.
What does this mean for you?
We know any increase to your electric bill matters. That’s why we’re committed to operating efficiently and supporting you with a variety of resources. In fact, this is our first request to change distribution rates since 2016 — while managing our expenses nearly 25% below the rate of inflation. The result: we held the line on customer costs in a way that very few utilities in this country can point to.
If approved, this settlement includes investments in a stronger system, enhanced assistance for vulnerable customers, expanded payment flexibility and a two-year pause on additional base rate increases.
See how these smart investments are set to boost your service and make your power more reliable:
- Building a stronger electric system: We’re planning targeted investments — stronger poles, upgraded wires, smart grid technology — designed to reduce outages and restore power faster in the future as severe weather intensifies. These improvements help avoid higher costs over time by reducing damage and disruptions.
- Expanding assistance for customers who need it most: We’re expanding support for vulnerable customers by increasing hardship fund bill credits, improving access to assistance programs, eliminating reconnection fees, streamlining the return of security deposits and boosting the annual low-income weatherization budget.
- Supporting responsible large load growth: Large‑load customers, such as data centers, place unique demands on the system. A new large-load rate class ensures our large users make long-term financial and usage commitments to protect other customers from additional infrastructure costs, while also providing $11 million in annual support for low‑income residential customers.
- Adding small business protections: We plan to mitigate cost impacts of net-metered distributed generation and introduces new, flexible payment options for small businesses.
Together, these measures are intended to balance necessary system improvements with protections that help customers manage costs.
Our commitment to accountability
We know you work hard for your money and affordability and reliability remain core priorities for us. The PUC closely reviews and monitors how utilities invest customer dollars, and this settlement includes additional reporting and establishes service expectations to ensure you see real improvements and benefits.
We are committed to operating efficiently, managing costs responsibly and being transparent about the outcomes customers can expect from these investments.
For more information and to review the entire settlement, visit pplelectric.com/RateInfo.
What is the increase?
I pay more in distribution charges that I do in electric use charges.
It’s pretty clear what this means for customers as far as rate increases on already high energy rates. Utilities like PPL aren’t stopping here though. They are wanting to remove incentives for compensation for energy generation sold back to the grid from renewable energy by around 75%.
Expanding assistance for customers who need it most… That truly speaks to caring about your customers. Thank you for keeping the lights on in the darkest of times!
You’re raising prices when we are already being forced to pay double what we used to. You’re ripping the consumers off at rediculous rates. You’re NOT consumer friendly or anywhere near fair and reasonable affordability !!!
You really buried the lede on this story. What is the Rate increase that has been proposed?
I, along with so many other senior citizens, cannot afford an increase in our utility bills! Inflation has already hit us so hard in other areas. The high cost of groceries, taxes, etc. is out of control. I will soon be 76 years old, and still have to work part-time to live comfortably!
Please do not increase our electric bills. They are high enough. Let the CEOs take a pay cut.Go back to actual meter readings
HORRIBLE NEWS! I RESENT HAVING MY BILL INCREASED TO GIVE SOMEONE ELSE A PASS ON THEIR BILL!!!! PEOPLE THAT DON’T QUALIFY BY A FEW DOLLARS ARE MADE SUFFER! PEOPLE THAT ARE ON FIXED INCOMES SUCH AS MYSELF WILL BE FORCED TO GIVE UP THEIR HOME DUE TO ALL THESE INCREASES THAT ARE NOTHING MORE THAN CORPORATE GREED. STOP USING LANGUAGE THAT HIDES BEHIND RAISES FOR CORPORATE EMPLOYEES. PPL IS NOTHING MORE THAN ANOTHER PRICE GOUGING CORPORATION DESTROYING THE MIDDLE CLASS!!!!
Does typing in all CAPS make you feel more important?
I don’t agree with rates increasing on distribution. PPL wants to enrich their own high corporate employees while the average customer pays for the upgrades. This money should have been put on the side for upgrades in previous years for use in later years, if the company was managed properly.
I agree with all of these comments our electric bills are off the wall we are in our mid to late 80’s along with groceries , gas prices & products [partially due to gas prices] now to get on the band wagon with everyone else & raise electric prices too.
What is the rate?
PPL always receives two increases per year, June and December. Why two and the rationale behind it? We receive a Customer Charge each month, (the amount fluctuates each month. What is that for? Also, we have been hit for years for a System Improvement Charge @7.50%. Why are we still paying for this when the system supposedly was improved?
The PUC needs to question these continuous requests that has a major impact on the consumer. I am 82 years of age and a US Army Veteran. They should offer discounts to Seniors and Veterans if they truly cared about the consumer.
Agree with above ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Show us the rate increase!
If it’s such a great deal for your customers you would be shouting it from every angle.
Anyone else notice that ppl’s commercial rate is lower than the residential rate? So one greedy business (ppl) giving a break to all other businesses and sticking it to us residential customers who just have to pay it. We can’t raise our prices, we can’t go without electricity, ppl no longer gives the “standard offer” program which gave us at least a small discount, and shopping for other suppliers no longer helps much either. And why does the PUC keep approving these price increases? And how many new data centers are being built to support the billionaire AI moguls?
I posted a comment yesterday, but it was not posted. Why??
My electric used to go out frequently…now it seldom does that. I would say that not having a raise in distribution rates since 2016 is a pretty good track record for PPL. Thank You for that PPL. Absolutely any increase in cost during these hard times is difficult but PPL has a budget also. Like some of you, I’m also on a fixed income and will redo my budget…on the kitchen table, under a “light”, thanking the Good Lord (and PPL) for the blessings of electricity. Note: I do have backup lighting (kerosene lamps, etc.) around – just incase the grid goes down…and I am pretty sure we are headed in that direction. So PPL, thanks for my hot water, my lights, my stove, my microwave, my washer, my dryer… I think you have been fair over the years and are now just in the same boat as the rest of us…