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Canadian and Latin American power companies

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Algonquin Power & Utilities

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is a Canadian utility holding company, headquartered in Oakville, Ontario, that owns rate-regulated electric, gas, and water utilities serving about 1.3 million customers.

BC Hydro

BC Hydro, formally the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, is a provincial Crown corporation that generates and distributes electricity for most of British Columbia, serving over five million people.

Caribbean Utilities

Caribbean Utilities (CUC) is the sole electric utility of Grand Cayman, serving about 35,000 customers since 1966 and owned roughly 60% by Canada's Fortis Inc.

Celesc

Celesc (Centrais Elétricas de Santa Catarina) is a Brazilian electric utility controlled by the state of Santa Catarina. Created in 1955, it serves over 3 million customers.

CNEL EP

CNEL EP (Corporación Nacional de Electricidad) is Ecuador's state-owned strategic public electricity company, created in 2013, whose distribution concession covers 44 percent of the national territory and supplies about half the population.

Codensa

Codensa was a Colombian electricity distribution company headquartered in Bogotá, founded in 1997 and serving the capital and neighboring municipalities until its 2022 merger into Emgesa, renamed Enel Colombia.

Colbún

Colbún S.A. is a Chilean electric power generation and trading company headquartered in Santiago, operating 29 plants with more than 5,000 MW of installed capacity in Chile and Peru.

Comisión Federal de Electricidad

Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), or Federal Electricity Commission, is Mexico's state-owned electric utility. Created in 1937, it supplies most of the country's electricity and was reconstituted by a 2024 constitutional reform.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia

Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel) is a Brazilian electric utility headquartered in Curitiba, Paraná. Founded as a state-owned company in 1954, it was privatized in 2023 and serves nearly all of Paraná.

Corporación Eléctrica Nacional

Corporación Eléctrica Nacional (CORPOELEC, Corpoelec) is Venezuela's state-owned electricity company, created in 2007 to consolidate the country's public and private utilities into a single national operator.

East-West Tie Limited Partnership

East-West Tie Limited Partnership is an Ontario limited partnership that owns the East-West Tie Line, a 450-kilometer, 230-kilovolt transmission line between Wawa and Thunder Bay, completed in 2022.

Edelap

Edelap (Empresa Distribuidora La Plata S.A.) is an Argentine electric power distribution company created in 1992 from SEGBA's La Plata unit, serving six partidos of Buenos Aires Province.

Electroperú

Electroperú (Empresa de Electricidad del Perú S.A.) is a Peruvian state-owned electricity company founded in 1972, whose Mantaro complex supplies about 13 percent of Peru's energy.

Eletronorte

Eletronorte (Centrais Elétricas do Norte do Brasil) is a Brazilian electricity generation and transmission company, created by the federal government in 1973 to develop the Amazon region's power systems.

Eletropaulo

Eletropaulo Metropolitana Eletricidade de São Paulo S.A. was a Brazilian electricity distributor serving greater São Paulo, created in 1981, privatized in 1998, and acquired by Enel in 2018.

Empresa Nacional de Electricidad (Bolivia)

Empresa Nacional de Electricidad (ENDE) is Bolivia's state-owned electricity corporation, founded in 1962 and active across generation, transmission, distribution, and import and export of electricity.

Enel Chile

Enel Chile is a publicly held Chilean electricity company, created in 2016 from the division of Enersis S.A., which generates power through subsidiaries and distributes electricity to about 2.2 million customers in Santiago.

ENMAX

ENMAX Corporation is a Canadian electricity utility holding company, wholly owned by the City of Calgary since 1998, operating regulated wires in Calgary and Maine, plus generation and retail.

EPCOR

EPCOR is a Canadian utility company, created by the City of Edmonton in 1995, that builds and operates electricity, gas, and water networks across Canada and the United States.

FortisAlberta

FortisAlberta is a regulated electricity distribution utility in Alberta, Canada, that owns the power lines serving more than 600,000 customers. It has been a subsidiary of Fortis Inc. since 2004.

FortisBC

FortisBC is the brand under which two regulated utilities deliver electricity and natural gas in British Columbia, serving more than 1.3 million customers as a subsidiary of Fortis Inc.

FortisOntario

FortisOntario is a Canadian electric utility headquartered in Fort Erie, Ontario, serving about 70,300 customers through three regulated utilities, as a subsidiary of Fortis Inc.

Grupo Albanesi

Grupo Albanesi is an Argentine business group founded in 1929 that generates electric power and trades natural gas, operating ten thermal plants in Argentina and Peru.

ISA (Colombia)

ISA (Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P.) is a Colombian public utility company founded in 1967, one of the largest energy transmission companies in Latin America, majority-owned by Ecopetrol since 2021.

Manitoba Hydro

Manitoba Hydro is a provincial Crown corporation that supplies electricity and natural gas to Manitoba, with up to 97 percent of its electricity generated from water in northern hydroelectric stations.

Maritime Electric

Maritime Electric is a regulated electric utility and the principal distributor of electricity in Prince Edward Island, serving about 91,000 customers as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortis Inc.

Neoenergia

Neoenergia S.A. is a Brazilian integrated electricity company controlled by Spain's Iberdrola, founded in 1997 and the largest power distributor in Brazil, serving more than 40 million people.

New Brunswick Power Holding

New Brunswick Power Holding Corporation, known commercially as NB Power, is the New Brunswick Crown corporation and vertically integrated electric utility serving more than 350,000 customers.

Newfoundland Power

Newfoundland Power is the regulated electric utility distributing electricity on the island portion of Newfoundland and Labrador, serving over 276,000 customers and owned by Fortis Inc.

Nova Scotia Power

Nova Scotia Power is a regulated, vertically integrated electric utility serving about 550,000 customers in Nova Scotia, Canada, and providing 95 percent of the province's generation, transmission, and distribution.