PPL Electric Utilities said today it will cut its residential rates by 10.7 percent, effective March 1.
It will be the fifth consecutive rate reduction since PPL rates spiked nearly 30 percent in January 2010.
In total, the series of cuts will have nearly erased that record increase two years ago.
PPL said it’s been able to trim rates because it’s paying less to obtain power on the wholesale market, a trend it foresees continuing
Image via Wikipedia
HARFORD, Pa. (AP) — For more than a decade, Bronson Pinchot has spent much of his downtime in the picture-book Pennsylvania hamlet where he found a dream home far from the stressful clamor of New York or L.A.
Pinchot likely remains best known as the endearingly naïve, quasi-Mediterranean immigrant Balki Bartokomous from the TV sitcom “Perfect Strangers.” But unlike Balki, Pinchot is by his own admission “fiercely private” and an “introvert that does a pretty convincing performance as an extrovert.” Still, he has decided to open his doors to America via “The Bronson Pinchot Project,” which premiered Feb. 11 on the DIY cable network. In all, eight episodes were shot over 13 weeks at the end of last year in Harford, a village founded in 1790 and nestled in the Endless Mountains of Susquehanna County near the New York state line.
Read more: http://www.timesherald.com/article/20120221/ENTERTAINMENT03/120229941&pager=full_story
Roy's Rants - For Your Information 