{"id":40911,"date":"2025-11-21T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40911\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:06:22","slug":"puc-sets-hearings-on-ppls-7-rate-increase-request-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40911\/","title":{"rendered":"PUC sets hearings on PPL’s 7% rate increase request"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has scheduled four in-person hearings and two telephone hearings in December to gather public input on PPL Electric Utilities Corporation\u2019s proposed 7% residential rate increase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In September, the Allentown-based utility requested an annual base rate increase of $356.3 million per year that would increase total annual revenue by 8.6%. PPL serves about 1.5 million customers in 29 counties, including Berks, Chester, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Montgomery, Northampton and Schuylkill.<\/p>\n

The PUC voted 5-0 in October<\/a> to investigate the proposed rate increase, which could raise a total residential monthly bill by about 7%. A residential customer using 918 kWh per month would see an increase to $189.40 from $177.01.<\/p>\n

The company said commercial customers could see an increase of about 3.1%, and industrial customers could see an increase of about 2.6%.<\/p>\n

A final PUC decision on PPL\u2019s request is due by July 1.<\/p>\n

The following is the schedule for the in-person hearings:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dec. 8 at 6 p.m., Scranton University Brennan Hall, Rose Rose Room, fifth floor, 320 Madison Ave., Scranton.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dec. 9 at 6 p.m., Catasauqua Municipal Building, borough hall, 90 Bridge St., Catasauqua.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dec. 10 at 6 p.m., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Keystone Building, Hearing Room #1, 400 North St., Harrisburg.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dec. 11 at 6 p.m., Manheim Township Public Library, Morgan Center, 595 Granite Run Drive, Lancaster.<\/p>\n

Two telephone hearings will be held at the following times:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dec. 15 at 1 and 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Information to participate: Dial the toll-free conference number, 866-421-8851; enter PIN number, 66640466; give your name when prompted and press #.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Participants in the telephone hearings are encouraged to register by 4 p.m. on Dec. 11. Failure to do so could result in not being called to testify.<\/p>\n

\u2022 To register, call legal assistant Pamela McNeal at 215-560-4228 or email at pmcneal@pa.gov and provide your first and last name;the hearing for which you are registering; the phone number you will be using to call into the hearing; a phone number where you can be reached before the hearing, if needed; your email address, if you have one.<\/p>\n

If you intend to offer any documents or exhibits at the hearings, you must email one copy to McNeal at pmcneal@pa.gov.<\/p>\n

Exhibits for any in-person hearing must be received by noon on Dec. 5. Exhibits for the telephone hearings must be received by noon on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n

For further information or help registering, contact the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate at 1-800-684-6560 or by email at consumer@paoca.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has scheduled four in-person hearings and two telephone hearings in December to gather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1557,433,182,200,139,28,128,130,129,231,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-40911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-chester-county","10":"tag-lehigh-county","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-montgomery-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-reading-city","16":"tag-reading-city-headlines","17":"tag-reading-city-news","18":"tag-schuylkill-county","19":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40911","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=40911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}