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Blakely officials raise reliability concerns after PPL disconnects borough grid; PPL to respond
Summary
Council member Kyle Burak told the Blakely Borough Council that PPL has been disconnecting the borough grid for minor disruptions and not allowing the borough system to self-correct; PPL said it would respond to the borough's concerns within two weeks.
Council member Kyle Burak reported Aug. 19 that Blakely Electric officials met with representatives from AMP, U.S. Rep. Mullins's office, Sen. Brown's office and PPL to address repeated power cutoffs that the borough says are preventing its electric grid from self-correcting.
"PPL was not very cooperative but said they would respond to our concern within the next two (2) weeks," Burak reported to the council. He framed the issue as a reliability concern for the borough's distribution system and said the meeting sought conditions under which PPL would allow Blakely's grid to operate as designed when minor disruptions occur.
The minutes record no immediate operational fixes and no formal vote; Burak said PPL committed to follow up. The council asked for a written response from PPL and monitoring of any further disruptions. No additional technical details or outage logs were included in the minutes.
