The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has begun a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances surrounding unusually high bills recently received by customers served by PPL Electric Utilities, along with the accuracy and integrity of PPL’s billing practices.

Hershey-based Forward Solutions, a newly formed portfolio company of lower middle market private equity fund Osceola Capital, has acquired Utility Sales Associates, a provider of outsourced sales services for utilities and telecommunications equipment manufacturers.

Mechanicsburg-based Pennsylvania American Water, the largest investor-owned utility in the state, has completed its purchase of the wastewater system assets of Upper Pottsgrove Township, Montgomery County, which serves approximately 1,550 customers.

Mechanicsburg-based Pennsylvania American Water announced plans this year to rehabilitate 14 of its water storage tanks and build seven new structures.

York Water Co. reported first-quarter operating revenue of $14.24 million, an increase of nearly 9% from a year ago.

The Harrisburg-based Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has approved a nearly $1.2 million settlement with a Westmoreland County company that it claims violated the Public Utility Code after a 2018 electrocution incident killed an Allegheny County resident. 

York Water Co. reported 2021 operating revenue of $55.12 million, up from $53.85 million the year before. 

UGI Utilities, a subsidiary of UGI Corp. headquartered in Denver, Lancaster County, has begun to accept renewable natural gas from Archaea Energy into its pipeline distribution system.

York Water Co. rang the closing bell for the NASDAQ on Monday in celebration of its 20th year on the stock market and its 600th consecutive dividend.

A coalition of businesses, including Sheetz and Giant-Eagle Get-Go, has filed a formal protest in hopes of blocking Texas-based Buckeye Partners LP from redirecting the gasoline flow of the Laurel Pipeline from the Pittsburgh market to Central and Eastern Pennsylvania.