The United Illuminating Company

electric distribution company in Connecticut, now part of Avangrid
Organization business Q7771571
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The United Illuminating Company

Summary

The United Illuminating Company is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (58 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The United Illuminating Company is in the country of United States[3].
  • The United Illuminating Company is in the country of US[4].
  • The United Illuminating Company's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • The United Illuminating Company's instance of is recorded as electricity supply company[6].
  • The United Illuminating Company's headquarters location is recorded as Orange[7].
  • The United Illuminating Company's industry is recorded as electricity supply company[8].
  • 1899 marks the founding of The United Illuminating Company[9].
  • 1899-06-15 marks the founding of The United Illuminating Company[10].
  • The United Illuminating Company's parent organization or unit is recorded as UIL Holdings Corporation[11].
  • The United Illuminating Company's parent organization or unit is recorded as Avangrid[12].
  • The United Illuminating Company's official website is recorded as https://uinet.com[13].
  • The United Illuminating Company's product or material produced is recorded as electric power transmission[14].
  • The United Illuminating Company's legal form is recorded as Q130264746[15].
  • The United Illuminating Company's legal form is recorded as JKOT[16].
  • The United Illuminating Company's short name is recorded as UI[17].
  • The United Illuminating Company's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+6670'}[18].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300B4YGCZQQ06TA03[19]

  • Registered legal name: The United Illuminating Company[20]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-CT[21]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[22]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): JKOT[23]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[24]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[25]

  • Entity created: 1899-06-15[26]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-04-02[27]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-03-02[28]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-03-02[29]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[30]

  • Registration authority: RA000600[31]

  • Authority entity ID: 0159106[32]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[33]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1899[9] and 1899-06-15[10].

Identity

The United Illuminating Company's short name is recorded as UI[17].

Operations

The United Illuminating Company's headquarters location is recorded as Orange[7]. Parent organizations include UIL Holdings Corporation[11], a business[34], in United States[35], founded in 1971[36], headquartered in Orange[37] and Avangrid[12], a business[38], in United States[39], founded in 1997[40], headquartered in New Gloucester[41].

Industry

The United Illuminating Company's industry is recorded as electricity supply company[8].

Ownership

The United Illuminating Company's product or material produced is recorded as electric power transmission[14].

Why It Matters

The United Illuminating Company ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (58 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . uinet.com. uinet.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [19] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [20] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [21] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [22] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [23] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [24] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [25] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [26] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [27] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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