Industry | Electric utility |
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Founded | Long Island, New York (1911) by Ellis Laurimore Phillips & George W. Olmsted |
Defunct | 1998 |
Fate | Electrical transmission network acquired by LIPA, electrical distribution system and natural gas operations merged with Brooklyn Union Gas to form KeySpan |
Successor | Long Island Power Authority, KeySpan |
Headquarters | Hicksville, New York, United States[1] |
Key people | W. J. Catacosinos, Chairman & CEO, J. T. Flynn, President & COO, A. Nozzolillo Sr. VP-Finance & CFO, T. A. Babcock, Treasurer, K. A. Marion, Corporate Secretary |
Products | Electrical & natural gas utility[1] in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties, on Long Island, New York[1] |
The Long Island Lighting Company, or LILCO ("lil-co"), was an electrical power company and natural gas utility for Long Island, New York, serving 2.7 million people in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens counties,[1] from 1911 until 1998.