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Protecting you during National Consumer Protection Week

Mar 4, 2025 | Safety and Security

This National Consumer Protection Week, learn to recognize and protect yourself from common utility scams. Scammers use threatening calls, fake websites, and even employee impersonation to target customers. Remember: PPL Electric will never demand immediate payment or ask for sensitive information over the phone or in person.

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Beware of Energy Vampires this Halloween

Oct 30, 2019 | Energy Efficiency

Instead of distributing candy this Halloween, we’re dishing out energy-saving tips! This year’s treat is learning how to cut down on phantom load, or energy vampires, that suck up your power and result in wasted energy. Energy vampires are small appliances or devices...

Drones assisting in power line inspections

Oct 22, 2019 | Reliability

Monitoring tens of thousands of miles of power lines is important to keeping the lights on, and PPL Electric Utilities is increasing its use of drones to make that process more effective and efficient. We recently began using drones to patrol the lower-voltage...

An innovative idea leads to more reliable service

Oct 17, 2019 | Reliability

We’ve never been afraid to experiment with new technology or implement innovative ideas if it means more reliable service for our customers. So as soon as battery technology became more advanced, our engineers were excited to launch a program within the PPL territory,...

When disaster strikes, know the warnings

Aug 27, 2019 | Safety and Security

“This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.” It’s a phrase we’ve all heard countless times from our radios or TVs. We’ve heard it so many times that it’s easy to stop paying attention. The fact is that the Emergency Broadcast System — and other warnings like it...

Summertime Electrical Safety: Avoid Risks Near Water

Aug 13, 2019 | Safety and Security

Summer is winding down, but there’s still plenty of time to enjoy the outdoors. For many of us, outdoor fun in the summertime means splashing around at a nearby pool or relaxing by a stream with a fishing pole in hand. Water and electricity can be a deadly...

A dependable transmission grid is key to reliability

Aug 8, 2019 | Reliability

Ever see a line of silver towers in a rural field? Or, maybe steel poles lining the road? Those are transmission lines, and you likely don’t give them much thought as you pass by in your car. But those transmission lines are crucial to most everything you do at home...

Sizzling temps ahead: Play it cool with our tips

Jul 16, 2019 | Energy Efficiency

PPL Electric Utilities offers tips to stay cool and save money as heat wave hits Pennsylvania

Powering pollinator research

Jun 28, 2019 | Environment

A single grain of pollen is invisible to the human eye, but the role it plays in our world is seen by everyone. Much of what we eat would not be possible without pollen, or pollinators, the insects that help transport pollen between flowers. About three quarters of...

Nuclear subsidy proposal in PA: Why we’re speaking out

Mar 7, 2019 | Energy Future

PPL Electric Utilities opposes an idea that would require electric utilities to purchase as much as 50 percent of customer demand from nuclear energy as part of a new mandate under Pennsylvania’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act.