Our History

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The birth of PPL Corporation stemmed from a June meeting in 1920 when eight utilities - with a total of 62 steam electric and hydroelectric generating plants serving central eastern Pennsylvania - merged into a single corporate entity called Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., headquartered in Allentown, Pa. This consolidation was a model for much of what would happen to the nation’s electric utility industry during the 1920s.

At the time, Pennsylvania Power & Light was an operating company within a complex holding company structure of utilities that provided electric power to consumers from the Pacific Northwest to Pennsylvania, from Minnesota to Florida. Its immediate parent was Lehigh Power Securities Corp., a subholding company that was controlled by National Power Securities Corp., another subholding company that was owned by the holding company Electric Bond and Share Co., which was controlled by General Electric.