PPL Corporation

If PPL Electric Utilities today bought the power it will need when rate caps expire, consumer prices would soar 30 percent in January 2010. But a company plan approved Thursday by the state Public Utility Commission allows the Allentown utility to...

To prepare for a big 2010 rate hike, a PPL Corp. official advised area businessmen to educate themselves. "The most important thing you can do is become an informed consumer," Tom Stathos, PPL director of customer strategy, said at a Tuesday morning talk...

The 2010 rate hike looming over PPL Electric Utilities customers just got bigger. According to the latest calculations, the price of electricity could go up 35 percent for homeowners and 23 percent to 43 percent for some businesses. Each of those figures...

This month, after revealing that electricity rates could surge 35 percent for residents and up to 43 percent for businesses in 2010, PPL Corp. shrugged off responsibility for the looming hike, saying it does not set prices -- the marketplace does. But the...

About 20,000 former Pennsylvania customers of now-defunct electricity supplier Utility.com will get a $10 refund next month. The Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate won the payout in bankruptcy proceedings against the now defunct dot-com. The...

Electricity rates for PPL Electric Utilities Corp. customers would increase 20 percent to 30 percent in 2010 if state regulators approve a power purchasing proposal the Allentown company filed Wednesday in an attempt to avoid even larger increases. PPL...

PPL Electric Utility customers have gotten their first concrete indication of just how high their rates will jump on Jan. 1, 2010: Twenty-nine percent for homeowners and 18 percent to 37 percent for some businesses, depending on each customer's power use....

Gov. Ed Rendell voiced qualified support for extending caps that freeze electricity rates but are due to expire in 2010 and 2011. "There's a better way to do it than extending rate caps," Rendell said Tuesday while promoting his own wide-ranging energy...

Pennsylvania residents will be overcharged by $5 billion over the next few years because of a flaw in the deregulated electricity market, state officials have alleged in a complaint to federal regulators. The 211-page complaint, filed last week by a...

PPL Corp. announced a record annual profit on Thursday, posting numbers that dwarfed the record the company set just a year earlier. The Allentown energy company earned $1.3 billion, or $3.40 per share, in 2007, compared to $865 million, or $2.24 per...

Pushed by Enron and crafted behind closed doors, the 84-page measure to deregulate Pennsylvania's electric industry was slipped into a bill that called only for a one-word change in the state's taxicab law. "This legislation," then-Gov. Tom Ridge...

When the price of electricity soars in a year and a half, its hefty cost will hit the consumer's pocketbook over and over again. Homeowners will pay for the increase not just in monthly bills, which could be more than 30 percent higher, but at the...