The Southeastern Electric Exchange has recognized PPL with two Industry Excellence Awards.

PPL's first industry award involves its smart grid technology.The automated power restoration system uses pole-top sensors to detect outages, a central computer to quickly analyze the problem, and remote-control switches to reroute power and restore many customers to service - even before a work crew has made repairs.PPL customers are experiencing 30 percent fewer outages now than in 2007. With additional investments being made every year, reliability is expected to increase by another 15 percent over the next five years.PPL's second industry award came for its use of technology to help maintain its power line rights of way.The company uses geospatial technology to give it accurate three-dimensional views of power-line corridors, and it also has switched to a paperless work management system. PPL uses light detection and ranging data to provide information on obstructions in the right of way - such as trees - that may pose a threat to reliability.