PPL Climate Change Actions

• PPL has developed 12 megawatts of renewable energy projects that use landfill methane, solar energy and fuel cells to generate electricity and will invest at least $100 million in renewable energy projects over the next five years.
   
• PPL purchased 77,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy in 2006.
   
• PPL plans to expand generating capacity at existing nuclear and hydro plants, which do not emit greenhouse gases.
   
• PPL is one of only four U.S. utilities to be members of the FutureGen Industrial Alliance, which is developing a near-zero emission power plant that can capture carbon dioxide for sequestration.
   
• PPL generated 39 percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuel power plants in 2006.
   
• PPL decommissioned two coal-fired power plants in 2007, which will reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by about 1 million tons.
   
• For the second year in a row, PPL responded to the Carbon Disclosure Project survey, which seeks information from over 2,400 of the world's largest companies on the business risks and opportunities presented by climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.
   
• PPL is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership in the northwestern United States to support the development of technologies that can provide for long-term storage/disposal of carbon dioxide emissions.
   
• PPL participates in the Montana governor’s Climate Change Advisory Council.
   
• PPL Electric Utilities has provided more than $25 million for renewable energy and clean energy technology development through the Sustainable Energy Fund of Central Eastern Pennsylvania.
   
• A building at PPL’s headquarters was the first privately owned building in Pennsylvania to receive a “Gold” rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
   
• PPL Electric Utilities uses bio-diesel alternative fuel (20 percent supplemented with soybean or vegetable oil) in some of its vehicles, and is looking to expand its use of alternative fuels (bio-diesel and ethanol).
   
• PPL Electric Utilities has ordered its first hybrid diesel/electric powered bucket truck for delivery in 2007.
   
• The beneficial reuse of ash from PPL’s coal-fired power plants as a substitute for cement in concrete manufacturing offsets greenhouse gas emissions from the cement industry.