PPL this week published its overall corporate responsibility report that includes a special section on it environmental performance over the last year.

PPL noted they are spending $1.6 billion on control that will nearly eliminate sulfur dioxide emissions from their five largest generating units in Pennsylvania and testing new technology to reduce mercury emissions.

In a special section on Climate Change & Carbon Risk, PPL said it has identified projects that will reduce or offset greenhouse gas emissions from its operations, noting the company’s generating units produced 32 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2005.

PPL noted it is a member of the FutureGen Industrial Alliance, a consortium of companies working to develop zero-emission coal-fired power plants in the U.S., the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership in Montana and has undertaken a variety of alternative fuel projects.

10/7/2006