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PPL Electric Utilities has all available employees working to restore power to customers after a line of severe thunderstorms barreled across the company's 29-county service area Monday evening (7/21).

While crews have restored service to more than 37,000 customers since storms entered the company's service area late this afternoon, as of 10 p.m., there were 103,000 customers without electricity. The company serves 1.3 million customers in eastern and central Pennsylvania.

Monitoring the storms as the crossed they state, PPL Electric Utilities prepared to respond to customer calls this evening.

"Our crews are on duty and will continue working around the clock until every customer is back in service," said Michael E. Bray, president of PPL Electric Utilities.

"The storms left a considerable amount of damage in their wake. We are faced with hundreds of repair jobs and we continue to receive outage reports. We are doing all we can to restore service as quickly and as safely as possible," Bray said.

PPL Electric Utilities Corporation is a subsidiary of PPL Corporation. Headquartered in Allentown, Pa., PPL Corporation controls about 11,500 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America.

SOURCE: PPL Electric Utilities Corporation

CONTACT: George Lewis of PPL Corporation, +1-610-774-5997, or fax,
+1-610-774-5281

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