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Celilo converter station
Celilo converter station near The Dalles, Oregon, is the northern terminal of the 846-mile Pacific DC Intertie, converting Northwest hydropower to direct current for transmission to Los Angeles, California.
Cengiz Holding
Cengiz Holding is a Turkish conglomerate founded by Mehmet Cengiz in 1980 and headquartered in Istanbul, with about 44,000 employees in energy, mining, construction, and services, including Cengiz Enerji and the builders of Istanbul Airport.
Central Asian Electric Power Corporation
Central Asian Electric Power Corporation, known as CAEPCO JSC, is a private Kazakh energy holding founded in 2008 that generates and sells electricity and heat in northern Kazakhstan.
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
Central Hudson Gas & Electric is a regulated utility serving roughly 315,000 electric and 90,000 gas customers in New York's mid-Hudson Valley, owned by Fortis Inc. since 2013.
Central Puerto
Central Puerto S.A. is an Argentine electric power generation company created in 1992 from the privatization of SEGBA, and the largest electricity generator in Argentina.
Centrenergo
Centrenergo is a state-controlled Ukrainian power company operating three thermal power plants with about 7,690 MW of capacity, roughly 15% of Ukraine's generation, heavily damaged by Russian strikes since 2022.
Centro de Controle de Energia Elétrica
Centro de Controle de Energia Elétrica is a Brazilian control center through which the ONS coordinates and controls the country's interconnected power grid, 24 hours a day.
CESC Limited
CESC Limited, formerly The Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, is an Indian power utility headquartered in Kolkata, serving about 3.7 million customers across 567 sq km of West Bengal.
Ceylon Electricity Board
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is Sri Lanka's state-owned electricity utility, established in 1969, responsible for most generation, all transmission, and four of five distribution regions.
Changji converter station
Changji converter station, also called Zhundong, is the sending-end rectifier station of the ±1100 kV, 12,000 MW Changji-Guquan UHVDC link in Xinjiang, China, operating since 2019.
China Datang Group
China Datang Group, formally China Datang Corporation, is one of the five state-owned power generation companies created when China's State Power Corporation was broken up in 2002.
China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group
China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, abbreviated CECEP, is a Chinese centrally administered state-owned enterprise specializing in energy conservation, environmental protection, and clean energy.
Chongqing Sanfeng Environment Group
Chongqing Sanfeng Environment Group, known as Sanfeng Environment (三峰环境), is a Chinese state-owned company in Chongqing that builds and operates municipal waste-to-energy plants, with technology and equipment used in some 268 projects worldwide.
CitiPower
CitiPower, created in 1994 from the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, is an Australian electricity distributor serving Melbourne's CBD and inner suburbs, with over 99.99% reliability.
City Utilities of Springfield
City Utilities of Springfield is a community-owned municipal utility providing electricity, natural gas, water, SpringNet broadband, and CityBus transit to about 270,000 people in southwest Missouri.
Clearance (electric power)
Clearance in electric power is the minimum required separation between energized conductors and the ground, buildings, vegetation, or people, set by codes like the NESC.
Clearway Energy
Clearway Energy, Inc. is an American clean energy company based in Princeton, New Jersey, owning about 13.2 GW of wind, solar, storage, and flexible generation across 27 states.
Cleco Corporate Holdings
Cleco Corporate Holdings is a regional energy holding company in Pineville, Louisiana, in business since 1935, whose regulated utility Cleco Power serves about 298,000 retail customers in 24 parishes.
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company
The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, known as The Illuminating Company, is an electric utility headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, serving about 0.8 million customers in northeastern Ohio.
CLP Group
CLP Group, founded in Hong Kong in 1901 as China Light & Power, is one of Asia-Pacific's largest investor-owned power businesses, operating across Hong Kong, Mainland China, Australia, and India.
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.
Coal Creek converter station
The Coal Creek converter station is the rectifier terminal of the CU HVDC system at Coal Creek Station near Underwood, North Dakota, sending 1,000 MW to Minnesota since 1978.
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.
Cogentrix
Cogentrix is an American independent power producer founded in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1983, which develops and manages fossil and renewable generating plants, including 10 natural gas facilities totaling about 5,500 MW.
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.
Cold load pickup
Cold load pickup is the abnormally high demand that appears when electrical loads are re-energized after an outage, reaching several times normal levels and tripping protective relays.
COMESA electricity market
The COMESA electricity market is the framework for cross-border power trade among the 21 member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.
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.
Commonwealth Edison
Commonwealth Edison, known as ComEd, is an investor-owned electric utility serving more than 400 municipalities in northern Illinois, including Chicago, and operates as a subsidiary of Exelon.
Compact transmission line
A compact transmission line is an overhead power line built with reduced phase spacing and shorter insulators, so more power flows through a narrower right-of-way than a conventional design allows.