{"id":37879,"date":"2025-11-18T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37879\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:07:10","slug":"puc-schedules-public-hearings-on-proposed-ppl-rate-increase-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37879\/","title":{"rendered":"PUC schedules public hearings on proposed PPL rate increase | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa.- The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) has announced four in-person public hearings to gather input on a\u00a0proposed PPL Electric rate increase.<\/p>\n<p>PPL is asking for a distribution rate increase, its first since 2016. The PUC voted 5-0 last month to suspend and investigate the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Of the four in-person public hearings, only one is in the Lehigh Valley. It&#8217;s scheduled for 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9 at the Catasauqua Municipal Building at 90 Bridge Street.<\/p>\n<p>The other hearings are happening in Scranton (December 8), Harrisburg (December 10), and Lancaster (December 11).<\/p>\n<p>The PUC will also conduct two hearings by telephone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More information on the hearings, and how to participate, can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puc.pa.gov\/press-release\/2025\/public-input-hearings-scheduled-for-proposed-rate-change-by-ppl-electric-utilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PPL, which is based in Allentown, said the $356.3 million increase is needed to pay for a number of improvements.<\/p>\n<p>If the PUC gives the go-ahead, the increase would add about $13 a month to the bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) a month, or about 7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>PPL said a typical commercial customer using 1,000 kWh and 3 KW per month would see an increase of about $8 per month. For a typical industrial customer using 150,000 kWh and 500 KW per month, the increase would be about $514 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa.- The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) has announced four in-person public hearings to gather input on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[157,28,30,29,9914,9917],"class_list":["post-37879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-ppl","tag-puc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37879","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=37879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}