Will You Let PPL Keep Raising Rates on You

Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL) delivers electricity to nearly one and a half million people in the state of Pennsylvania. Are you one of those people? If so then you should start saving your pennies now because PPL is about to launch a rate hike that has the potential to break your piggy bank. As of June 1st they are raising rates by 15% on their electricity customers.

Can you afford an electricity bill increase of 15%? It is doubtful considering that most of us are struggling to pay the bills we already owe! And yet those one and a half million customers are going to have to find a way to pay the increased rate unless they take advantage of their right to shop around and find a Pennsylvania electricity provider that will offer them a better rate.

There are definitely providers out there that will charge you less than PPL. In fact, there are companies out there that are charging less than PPL is charging now, even before the company has raised its rates. PPL charges its customers a default rate of nearly ten cents per kWh of energy used in the home. Alternative Pennsylvania energy suppliers often offer rates lower than nine cents per kWh and some have current rates as low as six and a half cents per kWh.

When the PPL rate hike takes place on June 1st, customers of the energy company will begin paying a default rate of 11.22 cents per kWh. That’s higher than the average rate in many regions across the nation. Do you really want to let PPL do this to you?

Many residential and business customers are choosing to stay with PPL simply because they aren’t sure what it means to switch to a new energy provider. It is easy to stick with what you know. You are familiar with it and so it is comfortable. But how comfortable can you really be knowing that you may be paying twice as much as you need to for your electricity each month? Switching to a lower cost provider is easy and you will get comfortable with your new provider quickly, especially when you see how low your PPL electric bill can be!