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PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) plans to release its consolidated fourth-quarter and year-end 2004 earnings results before the stock market opens on the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 2. PPL management will discuss these results and the company's general business outlook during a conference call with financial analysts at 9 a.m. (EST) on that day.

William F. Hecht, PPL chairman, president and chief executive officer, will conduct the conference call, which will include other members of PPL's executive management team. The call will be available online live, in audio format, on PPL's Internet Web site at http://www.pplweb.com/. For those who cannot listen to the live webcast, a replay will be accessible via PPL's Web site for 30 days. Interested individuals also can access the live conference call via telephone at 913-981-5510.

PPL Corporation, headquartered in Allentown, Pa., controls more than 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to nearly 5 million customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America. More information is available at http://www.pplweb.com/.

SOURCE: PPL Corporation

CONTACT: George Biechler, for news media, +1-610-774-5997, or Tim
Paukovits, for financial community, +1-610-774-4124, Fax: +1-610-774-5281,
both of PPL Corporation

Web site: http://www.pplweb.com/