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On October 6, 2026 the Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) filed an answer raising concerns with PPL’s proposed non-bypassable customer protection transmission rider (CPTR) and asking the Pennsylvania PUC to send the proposal to an ALJ for full evidentiary proceedings.

PPL’s proposal among other things would shift recovery of NITS and certain other transmission costs from load serving entities/electric generation suppliers to a non-bypassable PPL rider and directly allocate certain large-load transmission costs to Rate LP-6 customers.

The OCA questions whether PPL has provided adequate protections to prevent shopping customers from paying transmission costs twice, once through the new CPTR and again through existing EGS contracts that already include NITS or other transmission costs.

The OCA also questions whether PPL’s targeted Q1 2028 implementation provides sufficient time for suppliers to revise contracts and disclosure statements. If the PJM billing transfer is implemented, EGSs would no longer need to recover the affected NITS costs through their retail supply contracts, although the OCA notes that EGS offers would still face energy, capacity, and ancillary-service market risks.

The OCA also raises broader concerns about whether PPL’s proposal adequately assigns data-center and other large-load costs to the customers causing them, protects existing customers from cost shifting, and appropriately treats potential future PJM reliability costs. It therefore recommends further investigation rather than approval of the proposal as filed.

As previously reported, on September 14, 2026, PPL Electric filed its petition seeking (1) the Company’s proposed non-bypassable Customer Protection Transmission Rider (CPTR)3 to recover all Network Integration Transmission Service (NITS) costs and certain other transmission costs and to allocate certain network upgrade costs to Rate LP-6; (2) the elimination of the Transmission Service Charge (TSC); (3) changes to the Generation Supply Charges to include the costs currently recovered under the TSC that will not be recovered through the CPTR, along with the associated net over or undercollection balance; (4) the proposed amendment of PPL Electric’s existing Default Service Program and Procurement Plan (DSP VI) to incorporate the programmatic and process changes to implement the non-bypassable CPTR, elimination of the TSC, and the changes to its Generation Supply Charges; (5) PPL Electric’s changes to its Retail Tariff, Electric Pa. P.U.C. No. 202 (Retail Tariff), and its Electric Generation Supplier Coordination Tariff, Electric Pa. P.U.C. No. 2S (Supplier Tariff) to implement the non-bypassable CPTR, eliminate the TSC, and make changes to the Generation Supply Charges; and (6) seeking waivers of any and all Commission regulations needed to implement the proposals .