PPL Corp. announced that its development subsidiary will bespending between $400 and $450 million to install five compact,natural gas-fired generation facilities in eastern Pennsylvaniatotaling about 900 MW of generating capacity. The five facilitiesin Lancaster and Montgomery Counties are expected to go on-line bythe summer of 2002.

“These projects represent an environmentally sensitive andcost-effective approach to meeting the growing need for electricityin the region, especially during hot, humid weather,” said WilliamF. Hecht, PPL’s chairman. “The requests to restrict the use ofelectricity last summer and already this spring underscore the needfor additional peaking generation of this kind,” he said.

The compact facilities, which occupy less than an acre each,”will improve the reliability of the electrical system forsurrounding communities while minimizing environmental impacts andrequiring no new transmission lines,” Hecht continued. Individual,pre-assembled generation units with capacities of about 45 MW eachwill be used. The design represents the most efficient,state-of-the-art technology for peaking generators. They operatecleanly using natural gas and a minimum amount of water to improveefficiency and to minimize air emissions.

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