{"id":138678,"date":"2026-03-15T03:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138678\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:04:06","slug":"ppl-seeks-smaller-electric-rate-increase-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138678\/","title":{"rendered":"PPL Seeks Smaller Electric Rate Increase In Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/PPLlg-e1737718689486.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-593067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PPLlg-e1737718689486-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\"  \/><\/a>ALLENTOWN \u2014 PPL Electric Utilities is seeking approval for a smaller rate increase than originally proposed. They filed a revised proposal Friday with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.\u00a0 Officials say PPL first requested a $356 million distribution rate increase last fall. The revised proposal asks for about $257 million instead.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, officials say the average residential customer would see an increase of about $8.65 per month. The company says that represents an increase of about 4.9 percent.\u00a0 Officials say an administrative law judge is reviewing the settlement proposal. New rates could take effect on or after July 1 if approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN \u2014 PPL Electric Utilities is seeking approval for a smaller rate increase than originally proposed. They filed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-138678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138678","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=138678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}