Customers, investors and business partners of the PPL family of companies now have a new source for information about this growing worldwide energy enterprise: www.pplweb.com.
"We are very excited about this new Web site because it packages important information in ways that directly respond to the interests and needs of our customers, investors and business partners," said Dan McCarthy, PPL director-Corporate Communications.
"Our Web site redesign was not just about changing the images that load on computer screens around the world. It was about responding to the needs of our various constituents — needs they have told us about in many ways since we have had a presence on the Web," McCarthy said.
The result is an easy-to-navigate, attractive and customer-focused site that provides a platform for future on-line transaction services for customers and investors, said McCarthy.
Visitors to the site will find information ranging from how to obtain electric or natural gas service to the company's international operations in Latin America and the United Kingdom.
"While pplweb.com does a superb job of capturing the spirit and vitality of PPL's 12,500 employees worldwide, and is an excellent source of information about our company, we realize that every Internet site is a work-in-progress," McCarthy said.
"We expect our site to evolve significantly as we keep listening to the needs of site visitors and working with our business lines to use Internet technology to meet those needs."
The launch of the new Web site coincides with the company's completion of the realignment of its subsidiaries into four business lines, he noted. The subsidiaries are: PPL Generation, which includes the company's electricity generation plants in Pennsylvania, Maine and Montana; PPL Utilities, the electric and gas delivery businesses in Pennsylvania and Maryland; PPL EnergyPlus for marketing and energy services; and PPLGlobal, which includes the company's international businesses in the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, and El Salvador.
Enock Interactive, an international Web design firm, assisted PPL in the Web site's redesign. The new site went live July 1.