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Employee Danielle Ballard

Employee Danielle Ballard discusses the latest investments at Ghent Station

article | Sep 13, 2016

Her work is an extension of the company’s environmental, community commitment ...read more

Tags Environmental, Ghent, baghouses, employees, investments

KPSC approves LG&E, KU’s plans for additional environmental improvements

Press Release | Aug 8, 2016

(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) – Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company received approval today from the Kentucky Public Service Commission to cap and close the remaining coal ash ponds at the utilities’ active and now-retired ...read more

LG&E and KU request approval to create a community solar field

Press Release | Aug 2, 2016

Subscription-based Solar Share Program available to residential, business and industrial customers   (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) – Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company requested permission from the Kentucky Public Service ...read more

Employee Chase Mills

Chase Mills talks planned investments, benefits to customers

article | Jul 25, 2016

Planning for intelligent controls on the distribution system.  ...read more

Tags Chase Mills, Distribution System Restoration and Dispatch Operations, investments, restoration
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Employee Jeff Heun discusses LG&E and KU’s new universal solar facility

article | May 10, 2016

He’s worked on many construction projects over the course of his career at LG&E and KU, but for Jeff Heun, manager of Capital Projects for LG&E and KU, the solar power plant at E.W. Brown Generating Station is unlike any other. ...read more

Tags Solar Generation, employees
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‘May the Fourth’ be with them: Video captures Mill Creek falcon banding event

article | May 4, 2016

Before flying for the first time to parts unknown — or even a galaxy far, far away — officials with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources prep four peregrine falcon chicks for their next adventure. Watch the video to see KDFWR ...read more

Tags Mill Creek Station, Peregrine Falcons at Louisville Gas and Electric, banding

Celebrate Earth Day with the Louisville Zoo this weekend

article | Apr 14, 2016

LG&E and KU to sponsor Earth Day Festival. ...read more

Tags Earth Day, Environmental Stewardship, Louisville Zoo

KU and ODP celebrate Earth Day with free tree seedling giveaways in six locations

Press Release | Apr 4, 2016

(LEXINGTON, Ky.) – Kentucky Utilities Company and Old Dominion Power Company will join other local Earth Day activities by giving away free redbud tree seedlings on April 21.  Specific giveaway locations and the number of seedlings available ...read more

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Look who’s back!

article | Mar 2, 2016

Diana, the famous peregrine falcon nesting at Mill Creek Station in southwest Louisville since 2006, has returned for this year’s nesting season and laid her first egg. Mill Creek Station’s resident peregrine falcon Diana has laid her first egg ...read more

Tags Mill Creek Station, Peregrine Falcons at Louisville Gas and Electric

Exploring Kentucky's renewables

article | Oct 12, 2015

One of Kentucky’s leading business publications, The Lane Report, recently profiled LG&E and KU’s renewable energy supply in their “Faster Lane” e-newsletter.  ...read more

Tags Solar Generation, hydro, renewables

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