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Public Power Corporation

Public Power Corporation (ΔΕΗ, PPC) is Greece's largest electricity generation and supply company. Founded in 1950, it has 11.1 GW of capacity, serves about 5.6 million customers, and is phasing out lignite.

Public safety power shutoff

A public safety power shutoff (PSPS) is the proactive de-energization of power lines by a utility during extreme wildfire risk, used as a last resort before fire starts.

Public Service Commission of South Carolina

The Public Service Commission of South Carolina is the state agency that adjudicates cases involving investor-owned utilities, with seven commissioners elected by the General Assembly to staggered four-year terms.

Public Service Commission of West Virginia

The Public Service Commission of West Virginia is the state agency that regulates public utilities, including electric, gas, water, and telephone services, created by the Legislature in 1913.

Public Service Company of Colorado

Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo) is an investor-owned electric and natural gas utility centered on Denver, formed in 1924 and now an Xcel Energy subsidiary.

Public Service Company of North Carolina

Public Service Company of North Carolina (PSNC), doing business as Enbridge Gas North Carolina, is a regulated natural gas utility headquartered in Gastonia serving more than 600,000 customers.

Public Service Company of Oklahoma

Public Service Company of Oklahoma, or PSO, is an investor-owned electric utility in Tulsa serving about 580,000 customers as a subsidiary of American Electric Power.

Public Service Electric and Gas

Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G) is a regulated utility distributing electricity and natural gas throughout New Jersey, serving roughly 2.4 million electric and 1.9 million gas customers.

Public Staff - North Carolina Utilities Commission

The Public Staff of the North Carolina Utilities Commission is an independent state agency, created by the General Assembly, that represents the using and consuming public in utility rate cases.

Public Utilities Commission of Ohio

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) regulates Ohio's electric, gas, telephone, and water utilities, with five commissioners appointed by the governor to staggered five-year terms.

Public Utility Commission of Texas

The Public Utility Commission of Texas, also known as PUCT, regulates Texas's electric, telecommunication, and water and sewer utilities and oversees the ERCOT electric market, and was created in 1975.

Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act

The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) is a federal law requiring electric utilities to purchase power from qualifying facilities at their avoided cost.

Pubugou hydroelectric plant

Pubugou hydroelectric plant (瀑布沟水电站) is a 3,600 MW hydroelectric station on the Dadu River in Sichuan, China, whose six units were all commissioned in 2010.

Pucheng power station

Pucheng power station (华电蒲城发电厂) is a six-unit coal-fired power station of about 2,580 MW at Sun Town in Pucheng County, Weinan, Shaanxi, China, built in phases from 1996 to 2008.

Pueblo Viejo hydroelectric plant

The Pueblo Viejo hydroelectric plant, commonly known as the Chixoy Dam, is a 300 MW hydroelectric facility on the Chixoy River in Guatemala, built from 1977 to 1983.

Puerto La Cruz refinery

The Puerto La Cruz refinery (Refinería de Puerto La Cruz) is a Venezuelan crude oil refinery in Anzoátegui state, eastern Venezuela, built by Gulf Refining and operated by PDVSA since nationalization in 1976.

Puerto Peñasco Solar Project

The Puerto Peñasco Solar Project (Central Fotovoltaica Puerto Peñasco) is a solar power plant built by Mexico's utility CFE near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, planned to reach 1,000 MW.

Puerto power station

The Puerto power station is a thermal power complex in the port of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with 1,747 MW of installed capacity, owned by Central Puerto.

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA; Spanish: Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica) is Puerto Rico's public power corporation, the sole electric utility serving about 1.5 million customers.

Puerto Rosales-La Plata Oil Pipeline

The Puerto Rosales-La Plata oil pipeline is an Argentine crude oil pipeline running 585 kilometers from the Atlantic coast to the La Plata refinery, operated by YPF.

Puertollano renewable fuels plant

The Puertollano renewable fuels plant is a Repsol facility in Ciudad Real, Spain, which began producing 200,000 metric tons of renewable diesel per year from organic waste in May 2026.

Puget Sound Energy

Puget Sound Energy is an investor-owned utility headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, serving about 1.1 million electric and 800,000 gas customers; its gas business dates to 1873, and its present name was adopted in 1997.

Puget Sound refinery

The Puget Sound Refinery is an oil refinery in Anacortes, Washington, owned by HF Sinclair since 2021 and operating since 1957, with a capacity of 149,000 barrels per day.

Puguang Gas Field

Puguang Gas Field (普光气田) is a giant high-sulfur natural gas field in Dazhou, northeastern Sichuan Basin, China, discovered in 2003 and operated by Sinopec, with over 9 trillion cubic feet of proven reserves.

Pukchang power station

Pukchang power station is a coal-fired power station in South Pyongan Province, North Korea, and the country's largest power plant, with an installed capacity of 1,600 MW.

Pukchang Thermal Plant Complex

Pukchang Thermal Plant Complex, also called the Pukchang power station, is North Korea's largest power plant, a coal-fired station of at least 1,600 MW in South Pyongan Province.

Pulau Sakra power station

Pulau Sakra power station is a power generation complex in the Sakra sector of Jurong Island, Singapore, named for one of the islands merged to form Jurong Island.

Pulau Seraya power station

Pulau Seraya power station is a power station on Pulau Seraya, now part of Jurong Island in Singapore. Opened in 1988, it was Singapore's first offshore power station.

Pulse Clean Energy

Pulse Clean Energy, formerly Green Frog Power Ltd, is a British company that owns and operates grid-scale battery storage, rebranded in 2021 after IMCO's full acquisition.

Pulsed column

A pulsed column, or pulsed extraction column, is a vertical liquid–liquid extraction contactor that mixes two liquids with a reciprocating pulse, used mainly in PUREX nuclear reprocessing.