SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     Washington, D.C. 20549


                            FORM 8-K


                         CURRENT REPORT
               Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
               the Securities Exchange Act of 1934


Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 14, 2002

 Commission   Registrant, State of Incorporation,     IRS Employer
 File Number     Address, and Telephone Number      Identification No.


   2-26720    Louisville Gas and Electric Company      61-0264150
                    (A Kentucky Corporation)
                      220 West Main Street
                         P.O. Box 32010
                     Louisville, Ky. 40232
                         (502) 627-2000

   1-3464          Kentucky Utilities Company          61-0247570
             (A Kentucky and Virginia Corporation)
                       One Quality Street
                 Lexington, Kentucky 40507-1428
                         (859) 255-2100

This combined Form 8-K is separately filed by Louisville Gas  and
Electric  Company  and  Kentucky Utilities Company.   Information
contained herein relating to any individual registrant  is  filed
by such registrant on its own behalf and each registrant makes no
representation   as  to  information  relating   to   the   other
registrant.

Item 9.        Regulation FD Disclosure

     On August 14, 2002, in connection with the filing of the
respective Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q of Louisville Gas and
Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company (each, the
"Company") for the period ended June 30, 2002 (the "Report"), the
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and the Chief
Financial Officer of each Company respectively certified,
pursuant to and solely for the purposes of 18 U.S.C.  1350, as
adopted pursuant to  906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
that, to such officer's knowledge:

     (1) The  Report  fully  complies with the  requirements  of
          Section  13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange  Act
          of 1934; and

     (2)  The   information  contained  in  the   Report   fairly
          presents,  in  all  material  respects,  the  financial
          condition  and results of operations of the Company  as
          of  the  dates  and  for the periods expressed  in  the
          Report."

                           SIGNATURES

Pursuant  to the requirements of the Securities Exchange  Act  of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed  on
its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                              Louisville Gas and Electric Company

Dated:   August 14, 2002           By:     /s/ John R. McCall
                                      Executive Vice President,
                                      General Counsel and
                                      Corporate Secretary

Pursuant  to the requirements of the Securities Exchange  Act  of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed  on
its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                   Kentucky Utilities Company

Dated:    August  14, 2002         By:     /s/  John  R.McCall
                                      Executive Vice President,
                                      General Counsel and
                                      Corporate Secretary