PPL plans June 3 open house on new Union County transmission lines
PPL will lay out plans for about nine miles of new 230-kV lines in Lycoming and Union counties at a June 3 open house in Montgomery.
About nine miles of new 230-kV transmission lines are slated for Lycoming and Union counties, a project that could affect nearby landowners, local construction patterns and electric reliability long after the June 3 open house in Montgomery.
PPL Electric Utilities plans to host the informational open house on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Montgomery. The company said the session will follow an open-house format with no agenda and no formal presentation, which means residents will need to press for details on the exact route, any property easements, construction timing and what the project could mean for electric bills.
The utility says the line work is intended to support load growth and a new customer facility, while also strengthening the system by adding new power pathways to reduce outage risks. In practical terms, that puts this project at the intersection of property rights and ratepayer impact: landowners along the corridor will want to know where poles, access roads and rights-of-way may land, while every customer in the region has a stake in whether the investment actually lowers the chance of outages during peak demand or severe weather.
PPL describes resilient transmission as the backbone of safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable electricity. In its broader 2026 reliability messaging, the company said load growth and rapid economic development are forcing it to expand the transmission system so it can serve the region for decades to come.
That wider push matters in Union County because the county is part of a corridor where infrastructure, growth and rural land use collide. A nine-mile line may not sound large compared with major highway or pipeline projects, but transmission routes can reshape how farmland, wooded tracts and development sites are used, and they can determine how quickly power can be restored when the grid is stressed.
PPL also said it serves a 29-county Pennsylvania territory and expects to spend $3.4 billion over five years to strengthen transmission and distribution systems and replace aging equipment. For Union County residents, that spending plan is the context for the June 3 meeting: one more sign that the utility is preparing for more demand, more construction and a grid that it says must be hardened before reliability problems become more expensive to fix later.
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