Cleveland Public Power

Cleveland Public Power is a publicly owned electricity generation and distribution company in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1907 by then-Cleveland mayor Tom L. Johnson. Prior to 1983, it was known as Municipal Light. CPP does not have sufficient capacity to compete across the entire Greater Cleveland area. Rather, it is intended to create additional capacity and to create a benchmark price in order to prevent price gouging by local private utilities and prevent the private market from controlling the city's electricity supply for municipal services such as streetlights and buildings. It also supplies electricity to the Cleveland Browns Stadium.