industry electrical power industry founded 1911 headquarters dayton ohio united states products electricity number of employees 1 500 2008 parent aes website www.dplinc.com dp & l inc. is a subsidiary of aes corporation . through its subsidiary the dayton power and light company is a public utility that sells electricity to residential commercial industrial and governmental customers in a 6 000 square mile 16 000 km2 area of west central ohio . 1 the dayton power and light company was incorporated in 1911 under the laws of ohio . dp & l is the principal subsidiary of dpl providing approximately 99 % of dpl s total consolidated revenue and approximately 92 % of dpl s total consolidated asset base . dpl and its subsidiaries employed over 1 500 people as of january 31 2008 . 1 the company is based in dayton ohio . electricity for dp & l s 24 county service area is primarily generated at eight coal fired power plants and is distributed to more than 515 000 retail customers . 1 prior to 2000 dp & l also distributed natural gas within its service area ; its gas operations were divested in the fall of 2000 to vectren an indiana company that formed earlier that year . dpl was acquired by aes in 2011 . 2 references edit a b c dpl inc. form 10 k for the year ended december 31 2007 . u.s. securities & exchange commission aes to buy ohio utility for 3.5 billion . dealbook . retrieved 2015 03 19 . external links edit dpl inc. company website dayton power and light this ohio related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a united states company or corporation involved in the energy industry is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dpl inc. & oldid 710086215 categories companies based in dayton ohiopower companies of the united statespublic utilitiesohio stubsunited states energy company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 march 2016 at 21 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view