Exhibit 24


                     PP&L RESOURCES, INC.
              PENNSYLVANIA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY

                       1996 ANNUAL REPORT
            TO THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                        ON FORM 10-K

                       POWER OF ATTORNEY

	The undersigned directors of PP&L Resources, Inc. and 
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company, both Pennsylvania 
corporations, which are to file with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Washington, D.C., under the provisions of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, their 1996 Annual 
Report on Form 10-K, do hereby appoint William F. Hecht, Ronald 
E. Hill and Robert J. Grey their true and lawful attorney, and 
each of them their true and lawful attorney, with power to act 
without the other and with full power of substitution and 
resubstitution, to execute for them and in their names said Form 
10-K Report and any and all amendments thereto, whether said 
amendments add to, delete from or otherwise alter said Form 10-K 
Report, or add or withdraw any exhibits or schedules to be filed 
therewith and any and all instruments in connection therewith.  
The undersigned hereby grant to said attorneys and each of them 
full power and authority to do and perform in the name of and on 
behalf of the undersigned, and in any and all capacities, any act 
and thing whatsoever required or necessary to be done in and 
about the premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as 
the undersigned might do, hereby ratifying and approving the acts 
of said attorneys and each of them.


	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set 
their hands and seals this 26th day of February, 1997.


/s/ E. Allen Deaver         L.S.  /s/ Stuart Heydt               L.S.
E. Allen Deaver                    Stuart Heydt



/s/ William J. Flood        L.S.  /s/ Clifford L. Jones          L.S.
William J. Flood                   Clifford L. Jones



/s/ Elmer D. Gates          L.S.  /s/ Ruth Leventhal             L.S.
Elmer D. Gates                     Ruth Leventhal



/s/ Derek C. Hathaway       L.S.  /s/ Frank A. Long              L.S.
Derek C. Hathaway                  Frank A. Long



/s/ William F. Hecht        L.S.  /s/ Norman Robertson           L.S.
William F. Hecht                   Norman Robertson