William H. Spence is executive vice president and chief operating officer of PPL Corporation. He oversees the day-to-day operations of PPL’s generation, marketing, and distribution and transmission companies. This includes the company’s electricity delivery businesses in the United Kingdom and its nuclear development company. He also is a member of PPL’s Corporate Leadership Council, which sets the strategic direction for the company and its subsidiaries.

Spence joined PPL in 2006. Previously, he had 19 years of service with Pepco Holdings and its heritage companies, Delmarva Power and Conectiv. He joined Delmarva Power in 1987 in the company’s regulated gas business, where he held various management positions before being named vice president of trading for Delmarva Power in 1996. In that position, he helped to grow the trading operations from inception to more than $2 billion in revenues and integrated the merchant operations of Atlantic City Electric and Delmarva Power during the merger of the two companies.

Spence was named senior vice president of Conectiv in 2000, prior to the merger with Pepco, and eventually was named president of Pepco Holdings’ $3 billion competitive generation and retail marketing businesses.

Spence earned a bachelor’s degree in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Penn State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. He also is a graduate of the Executive Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the Nuclear Technology Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Spence currently serves on the boards of the National Nuclear Accreditation organization, the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley and the Delaware Museum of Natural History. He is also a member of the Electric Power Research Institutes Research Advisory Council.