You’ve heard about PPL Electric Utilities using drones to patrol power lines. Here’s the story of an employee who uses drones to win prizes. Customer Experience Specialist Susie Smith recently competed in the MultiGP International Open, a drone racing event in Muncie,...
September is National Preparedness Month, and amid an active storm season, we encourage you to plan ahead so you're ready if an emergency strikes. "This year, we have already experienced 36 storms across the regions we serve," said Sal Salet, vice president of...
You’ve heard about PPL Electric Utilities using drones to patrol power lines. Here’s the story of an employee who uses drones to win prizes. Customer Experience Specialist Susie Smith recently competed in the MultiGP International Open, a drone racing event in Muncie,...
The sight of ospreys nesting at the overlook by Wallenpaupack Dam has become something local residents have come to expect for more than 20 years. So when the nesting platform originally put up by PPL Electric Utilities came down during a wind storm early in 2018, Meg...
This tip appears in the July 2018 issue of Connect, our customer newsletter. We're reprinting it here because it's good safety advice. Q. My buddy is a do-it-yourselfer and never bothers to turn off the circuit breakers when he’s working on an electrical outlet. How...
When Jeff Luzenski looks back on his days as a child growing up in the Lehigh Valley, he can’t recall ever seeing an osprey or peregrine falcon flying overhead. So the sight of ospreys on nesting platforms at various spots in Pennsylvania, and falcons feeding their...
You asked for more convenience. We’re delivering with new two-way texting. It makes doing business with PPL faster and easier than ever! Paying your bill or reporting an outage is now as simple as sending a text message. You can also use two-way texting to find out...
Shown above: The Bloomsburg Fair following Hurricane Agnes, June 1972. Hurricane season starts June 1 and continues into the fall. And while we might think of the warm tropics when we think of hurricanes, experience shows these storms can have a big, destructive...
Drones are more than just an innovative way to patrol and review electric delivery lines. They can be an innovative tool to help string them, too. At least twice in recent weeks, our employees have turned to the unmanned aerial vehicles as a way to help with...
Updated at 11 a.m. Friday (3/2): Today’s nor’easter with its high winds is causing a lot of damage throughout our service area, and more bad weather is to come. There are many individual repair locations, so some outages may be prolonged. We urge customers to prepare...
What does reliable electric service mean to you? If you own a business, it means that your computers, machinery, or cash registers can always be counted on to work when things are busiest. At home, it means your personal space can always be relied on to be well-lit...
Thinking about promoting your yard sale, band concert, or campaign for township supervisor by posting signs on utility poles? Please don't. Posting signs or posters on utility poles is unsafe and, in many cases, illegal. Our line workers can be injured if their...
