PPL Electric Utilities

About PPL Electric Utilities

PPL Electric Utilities is an investor owned entity located in Allentown, Pennsylvania and providing electricity to customers in 10 states in the country. Presently, 1,896,128 consumers are supplied electricity by the supplier. These customers are a mix of 1,647,957 residential accounts, 245,103 commercial customers and 3,068 industrial properties. On average, PPL Electric Utilities' consumers spend 14.94 cents per kilowatt hour for their residential electricity, which is 5.21% lower than the nationwide average rate of 15.76 cents. This ranks the company 2015th out of 2892 providers in the country for lowest average electricity rate. The company sold 37,525,147.43 megawatt hours through wholesale channels to other electricity providers and 45,741,401.69 megawatt hours through retail sales in 2022. The electricity produced in the company's power plants made up 32,484,744.51 of the megawatt hours sourced by the company. The purchase of wholesale electricity made up an additional 53,188,022.85 megawatt hours. Their total revenue in 2022 from electricity related activities was $6,854,585,512.5, with 3.33% coming from wholesale electricity sales and 78.96% from retail sales to end users.

The US average monthly residential electricity bill is $135.34, while the PPL Electric Utilities average is 1.04% less at $133.94 per month. This is the 1830th lowest average monthly bill amount for a supplier in the United States. The supplier is able to produce 316,011 megawatt hours from hydroelectric power facilities, which makes them the 59th largest producer of hydroelectric power in the nation out of 3526 companies. The provider's production plants have output of 5,135,515.75 megawatt hours by burning natural gas. This amount ranks them as the 93rd highest in the nation out of 3526 suppliers for total natural gas generation. Based on total customers, PPL Electric Utilities is the 29th largest electricity company out of 3526 in the country.