ALLENTOWN, Pa.- PPL Electric Utilities (PPL) says it has submitted a new petition for a settlement in its pending request for a distribution rate increase.<\/p>\n
Under the terms of the settlement, the rate increase would be smaller than what the utility first requested last fall.<\/p>\n
According to PPL, here’s how monthly bills would be impacted:<\/p>\n
Residential customers using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month could see their total bill increase by about $7.42.Commercial customers using 1,000 kWh and 3 KW per month could see their total bill increase by $4.64 per month.Industrial customers using 150,000 kWh and 500 KW per month could see their total bill increase by about $382.63.<\/p>\n
Under the original request, the monthly increase for a typical residential customer would have been about $13;\u00a0a typical commercial customer would have paid an extra $8; and the average industrial customer could expect a $514 increase.<\/p>\n
The new proposal amounts to a $275 million\u00a0increase in annual base distribution revenues, compared to\u00a0$356 million under the initial plan.<\/p>\n
PPL last raised its distribution rates in 2016. The company said the increase is needed to pay for infrastructure and grid improvements.<\/p>\n
As part of the settlement, PPL Electric will agree not to increase distribution base rates again for two years.<\/p>\n
If the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) gives the go-ahead, the new rates would go into effect July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa.- PPL Electric Utilities (PPL) says it has submitted a new petition for a settlement in its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,9962,559],"class_list":["post-137756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-pennsylvania-public-utility-commission","tag-ppl-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}