A corporation, person, agency, authority, or other legal entity or instrumentality that owns electric generating capacity and is not an electric utility. Non-utility power producers include qualifying cogenerators, qualifying small power producers, and other non-utility generators (including independent power producers) without a designated franchised service area.
Any entity not regulated by the government as a public utility that owns or operates a generating facility and offers electric power for sale to utilities or the public (also known as Independent Power Producer).
A corporation, person, agency, authority, or other legal entity or instrumentality that owns electric generating capacity and is not an electric utility. The entity generates on-site all or part of its electricity requirements, does not sell to the public, and may or may not sell electricity to electric utilities.
Electricity generating facility connected to the power system but owned independent of the utility that operates the system.