§ 10. Definitions. A gas corporation is a corporation organized to
manufacture, to produce or otherwise acquire and to supply for public
use artificial or natural gas, a mixture of both artificial and natural
gases or thermal energy for light, heat or power and for lighting the
streets and public and private buildings of cities, villages and towns
in this state. An electric corporation is a corporation organized to
manufacture, to produce or otherwise acquire, and to supply for public
use electricity or thermal energy for light, heat or power, and for
lighting streets, avenues, public parks and places and public and
private buildings of cities, villages and towns within this state. A gas
and electric corporation is a corporation organized for purposes of both
a gas corporation and an electric corporation. For purposes of this
article, "thermal energy" shall have the same meaning as defined by
subdivision twenty-eight of section two of the public service law.