Electric Utilities

This group collects Utilities sector members whose core business is regulated electricity generation, transmission or distribution: the large investor owned and state owned electric utility holding companies, national and regional transmission grid operators, electric generation and distribution cooperatives, and several historic electric utility companies. It is the largest group in this subcategory, reflecting how much of the world's utility sector still runs through traditional regulated electric utilities, and it is kept apart from Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers, reserved for merchant and unregulated power generators that sell into competitive markets rather than operate as a rate regulated utility with a defined service territory.