PPL Electric Utilities Corp

PPL does not offer a make-ready program for EV charging, and lists no EV-specific incentives or EV rate for business customers (PPL business EV page, checked October 16, 2026). A business site that needs more capacity starts with a feasibility study, which PPL says takes about 10 days, followed by a construction application review of about 60 days. See [utility service application and interconnection](/commercial/installation/utility-service-application-and-interconnection) for the steps, [state grant programs](/commercial/funding/state-grant-programs) for outside funding, and the [Pennsylvania state page](/states/pa).

PPL does not publish a dedicated EV rate. Instead it offers a voluntary Time-of-Use plan that applies to the default service supply portion of the bill. Peak hours run on weekdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. between June 1 and November 30, and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. between December 1 and May 31, excluding 10 holidays that PPL lists on its Time-of-Use page; every other hour, including nights and full weekends, is off-peak. EV owners who charge overnight pay the lower off-peak supply price. The peak and off-peak prices change on June 1 and December 1 each year, so the spread shifts over time; check PPL's Time-of-Use page for the current prices.

PPL has no charger rebate of its own today: its earlier EV Charging Pilot rebate has closed, and PPL's rebates page points to state and federal programs instead. What PPL does pay for is when you charge. The Optimized EV Charging program pays $60 per season, up to $120 a year, for letting PPL pause charging of a Tesla, or of any EV on a ChargePoint or Emporia charger, during set high-demand hours; those hours do not match the Time-of-Use peak, so a Time-of-Use customer should still schedule charging overnight. The EV Off-Peak Rewards program pays $10 a month in the summer and winter months, up to $60 a year, when at least 80% of Level 2 charging happens outside the same peak hours the Time-of-Use plan uses; it is capped at 2,000 customers. Neither program's published eligibility requires the Time-of-Use plan.

For business, apartment and fleet sites, PPL does not offer a make-ready program: its business EV page answers "Do you offer a Make Ready for EV program?" with "Not at this time," and says PPL offers no EV-specific tariff rate or EV-specific incentives to business customers (the residential programs above are separate). Customers who need additional capacity may have to pay the associated costs, and PPL asks you to apply at least one year before you plan to go electric. A feasibility study of your electric supply needs takes about 10 days and gives approximate costs and a timeline; a formal construction application review can take about 60 days. PPL points customers to outside grants, such as the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (current status is on our [Pennsylvania state page](/states/pa)), and our guide to [utility make-ready programs](/commercial/funding/utility-make-ready-programs) explains how the programs that do exist work.

Pennsylvania is a restructured, deregulated market, which changes how these programs work in practice. PPL handles delivery and default service, while generation can come from a competitive supplier the customer chooses. Time-of-Use pricing applies to PPL's default service supply, so a customer who has switched to a third-party supplier is billed under that supplier's contract terms, not PPL's Time-of-Use windows. The state PUC has adopted a policy statement on rate design for EV charging that sets the factors utilities weigh when they propose EV rates, but PPL's current tariff has no separate EV rate.