The group's principal activity is to provide electricity to residential, commercial and governmental customers. It operates in a diversified regional energy segment. The principal subsidiaries of the group are the dayton power & light company (dp&l) and dpl energy. Dp&l provides electric services to over 500,000 retail customers in west central Ohio. Dpl energy operates over 4,600 megawatts of generation capacity and markets wholesale energy throughout the eastern United States of America.