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PPL Adds More Juice to Upper Macungie
PPL Electric Utilities will construct a new substation to add electricity to growing parts of the township.
PPL Electric Utilities plans to add more and better electric service to by constructing a new substation and tap line on property owned by the utility at Long Lane and Tillage Road.
"There has been a lot of residential growth in the area," said Paul Worth, a PPL spokesman. "The existing power lines are overloaded and we need to upgrade them."
Worth said the company will tap into a transmission line located on the property owned the utility and create an above-ground substation that will improve reliability for customers in Upper Macungie, Trexlertown and Fogelsville.
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"We'll tap off that existing line to create the local substation," Worth said.
Worth said the company has filed a letter of notification to the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission in January. The commission must approve the project before work can begin,
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