PPL Corporation signs Ratepayer Protection Pledge and highlights existing customer protections in Pennsylvania and Kentucky
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Published: Jul 24, 2026, 04:12 AM GMT+9
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PPL Corporation today announced it has signed the White House's Ratepayer Protection Pledge, reaffirming the company's long-standing commitment to affordability, reliability and responsible growth.
The pledge, previously signed by many of the nation's largest technology companies, defines voluntary principles to help ensure that data centers appropriately fund energy and infrastructure associated with serving them and that existing customers are protected as demand grows.
"The customer-protection principles reflected in the Ratepayer Protection Pledge are consistent with our approach to responsible growth," said Vincent Sorgi, president and chief executive officer of PPL Corporation. "In fact, PPL and its utilities were early movers in establishing new rate classes and regulator-approved, enforceable tariffs designed to protect existing customers and help ensure that large energy users, including data centers, pay their fair share of the costs of infrastructure needed to serve them," said Sorgi. "Ultimately, we believe economic growth and customer protection can go hand in hand, and this pledge reflects that important balance."
In Pennsylvania, PPL Electric Utilities' recently approved LP-6 rate establishes protections ─ including long-term service commitments, minimum billing obligations, revenue protections, up-front payments for directly assignable upgrades, financial security requirements and other measures ─ all designed to ensure costs associated with new demand are paid by customers creating that demand and not shifted to others. Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company earlier this year implemented similar regulator-approved customer protections through their Extremely High Load Factor (EHLF) tariff. As data centers and other large-load customers connect under these enforceable commitments, they can improve system utilization and potentially lower costs for non-data center customers over time.
Large customer connections are planned carefully, detailed engineering and reliability studies are completed up front, high-demand interconnections are subject to regulatory oversight, and any necessary upgrades are made before service begins, helping to ensure the grid remains safe and reliable for all customers.
Additional generation resources will also be needed to support economic growth, strengthen national security, maintain reliability and promote long-term customer affordability. This is why PPL has consistently advocated for policies that encourage investment in new generation resources and energy infrastructure while helping to ensure the costs of serving new demand are appropriately assigned. It's also why PPL created its joint venture with Blackstone Infrastructure ─ to build, own and operate new generation resources needed to serve new data center demand in PJM, particularly in Pennsylvania. The initiative is intended to support reliability, power economic development and help improve the supply-demand balance across the region in an effort to reduce upward pressure on wholesale electricity prices over time.
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