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--Announces solid increases in results from regulated businesses ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) announced first-quarter 2013 reported earnings on Thursday (5/2) of $413 million, or $0.65 per share, a decrease from $541 million, or $0.93 per share, a year ago. Adjusting for special items, quarterly earnings from ongoing operations were $454 million, or $0.71 per share, an increase from $409 million, or $0.70 per share, in the first...

Lowest Fixed Price Currently Available to PPL Customers AKRON, Ohio, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents served by PPL now have the opportunity to lock in a low fixed price of 6.35 cents per kilowatt-hour for electric generation until June 2016 through ChamberChoice and FirstEnergy Solutions. This is a savings over PPL's current average residential rate of 7.24 cents per kWh, and the estimated rate of 8.24 cents per kWh starting June 1, 2013. "Although offers have been made...

Commercial and industrial energy users have a new supply choice WASHINGTON, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL EnergyPlus has expanded its retail electricity supply products and services into the PEPCO territory of the District of Columbia to offer commercial, industrial and institutional customers the potential to save on their energy supply costs and to improve the efficiency of their energy procurement and utilization practices. Building off its success as an energy supplier in...

ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) will issue consolidated first-quarter 2013 earnings results before the stock market opens on Thursday, May 2. William H. Spence, PPL chairman, president and Chief Executive Officer, along with other members of PPL's executive team, will discuss quarterly results and the company's general business outlook during a conference call with analysts that begins at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. The call will be available...

ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) announced Thursday (4/18) that David K. Arthur, who has more than 20 years of Washington experience, has been named the company's Federal Government Relations vice president. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130418/PH97401 ) Arthur will replace Paulette C. Pidcock, who is retiring May 1 after more than three decades of representing major companies in the U.S. utility sector. She has served as PPL's...

BUTTE, Mont., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NorthWestern Corporation d/b/a NorthWestern Energy (NYSE:NWE) today announced that it has reached stipulated agreements with intervenors to settle its natural gas rate case in Montana. The agreements have been filed with the Montana Public Service Commission. Under the agreement with the Montana Consumer Counsel and the Large Customer Group, NorthWestern Energy would be allowed to increase its natural gas delivery service rates by $11.5...

BERWICK, Pa., April 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Operators safely shut down the Unit 2 reactor at PPL Corporation's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania early Saturday (4/13) to begin a planned refueling and maintenance outage. While the reactor is shut down, workers will replace about 40 percent of the uranium fuel and complete a large number of equipment maintenance tasks and upgrades. Workers also will inspect the unit's turbines and replace several pieces of...

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Richard Allan today visited Hugh Moore Park in Easton to highlight the importance of local parks and trails to communities and economies. The secretary announced a $175,000 grant to the City of Easton for improvements to Hugh Moore Park and the completion of the approximately three-mile PPL Trail that starts at Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center and...

ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With its United Kingdom subsidiary Western Power Distribution preparing for the next price control period, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) has posted a Web page for investors providing information about the new review process and access to key filings and documents. "Regulated businesses are integral to PPL's long-term growth, and WPD is the largest of our regulated businesses," said Joseph P. Bergstein, Investor Relations vice president....

BERWICK, Pa., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Susquehanna has appointed an industry veteran with nearly 30 years of military and commercial nuclear power experience as its new site vice president for the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania. Jon A. Franke will join PPL on April 9 from the Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida, where he had been site vice president since 2009, and previously served as director of site operations and plant general manager....