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Algonquin Power & Utilities

Renewable energy and utility conglomerate

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is a Canadian investor-owned regulated utility company with assets across North America, Bermuda, and Chile. Algonquin provides water, wastewater, natural gas, and electricity services through its operating subsidiaries: Liberty Utilities, its regulated utility business; Bermuda Electric Light Company, and Suralis in Chile.

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This entry incorporates text from “Algonquin Power & Utilities” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.