Created by Texas ranchers and business owners, Pedernales Electric Cooperative provides electricity services in the Texas Hill Country. The company, the largest electric cooperative in the US, purchases its electricity from wholesale providers, primarily the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), and transmits and distributes it to more than 234,000 customers. The member-owned cooperative is purchasing wind-power assets from American Electric Power to expand its green energy sources. In 2008 a scandal over alleged inappropriate expenditures by board members led to the resignation of the board president and intense scrutiny of the co-op by the public, members, and the government. Created by Texas ranchers and business owners, Pedernales Electric Cooperative provides electricity services in the Texas Hill Country. The company, the largest electric cooperative in the US, purchases its electricity from wholesale providers, primarily the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), and transmits and distributes it to more than 234,000 customers. The member-owned cooperative is purchasing wind-power assets from American Electric Power to expand its green energy sources. In 2008 a scandal over alleged inappropriate expenditures by board members led to the resignation of the board president and intense scrutiny of the co-op by the public, members, and the government.

Pepco Holdings has more power than any politician in the populace of the US capital. The holding company distributes electricity and natural gas through its Potomac Electric Power (Pepco), Delmarva Power & Light, and Atlantic City Electric utilities to about 1.9 million customers in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington, DC. Nonregulated operations include independent power production, wholesale and retail energy marketing, and energy management services, through the company's Pepco Energy Services units.

Piedmont Municipal Power Agency (Piedmont Power) generates, purchases, and transmits wholesale electricity on behalf of its 10 member municipal utilities, which distribute the power to nearly 95,000 retail customers in northwestern South Carolina. These ten utilities serve the cities of Abbeville, Clinton, Easley, Gaffney, Greer, Laurens, Newberry, Rock Hill, Union, and Westminster. Piedmont Power was created to buy an ownership interest in the Catawba Nuclear Station in York County, South Carolina, in order to secure a reliable source of electric generation for its member utilities.The agency currently owns a 25% stake in the Catawba plant.

Pinnacle West Capital is at the peak of the energy pyramid in Arizona. It is the holding company for the state's largest electric utility, Arizona Public Service (APS), which transmits and distributes electricity to 1.1 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers throughout most of the state. The utility also has more than 6,280 MW of generating capacity. Through APS and other subsidiaries, Pinnacle West markets wholesale and retail power in Arizona and the western US. The company also develops and manages real estate and invests in energy ventures.

PJM Interconnection, which oversees a 56,350-mile section of the North American power transmission grid that spans across 13 northeastern and midwestern states and the District of Columbia. The regional transmission organization monitors and coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in its service territory; its more than 560 members have a combined generating capacity of about 164,000 MW. Sanctioned by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, PJM is charged with ensuring fair competition among power purchasers, sellers, and traders; it also is responsible for the reliable delivery of distributed electricity to about 51 million consumers in its territory.

Platte River Power Authority supplies wholesale electricity to four municipalities (Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont, and Loveland) in northern Colorado, which in turn serve more than 140,500 residences and businesses. The utility, which is a political subdivision of the state of Colorado, has interests in fossil-fueled and wind-powered generation facilities; it also operates transmission assets and acts as a wholesale electric utility, acquiring, constructing and operating generation capacity and supplying electric energy on an as needed basis. Platte River Power Authority evolved from the Platte River Municipal Power Association, a consortium of 31 municipalities.

Portland General Electric (PGE) keeps many Birkenstock-shod feet warm: The company, formerly a subsidiary of Enron, generates, purchases, and distributes electricity to about 815,750 customers in Oregon. PGE's service territory covers 52 cities, including Portland and Salem. Its hydroelectric, coal-fired, and gas-fired plants had a generating capacity of more than 2,600 MW in 2009, and it purchased another 1,920 MW of generating capacity. PGE also markets wholesale electricity and natural gas to other utilities and marketers in the western US. In keeping with the "green" image of Portland residents, PGE leads the nation in residential customers who purchase power from renewable sources.

Powerco is the second-largest distributor of electricity and gas in New Zealand (behind state-owned Genesis Energy). Powerco's network extends across the upper central and lower central North Island and services to 415,000 customers. Its infrastructure represents about 46% of the gas connections and 16% of the electricity connections in New Zealand. The company's Powerco Transmission Services unit is a leading provider of wind farm connections to New Zealand's national grid. Powerco is 58%-owned by investment firm Queensland Investment Corp. and 42% by Australia-based infrastructure group Babcock & Brown Infrastructure.

Alabamans and Floridians come together in PowerSouth Energy Cooperative (formerly Alabama Electric Cooperative), which provides wholesale power services to its member-owners (20 cooperative and municipal distribution utilities and one industrial company). Its distribution members provide electric services to almost 419,000 meters in central and southern Alabama (39 counties) and western Florida (10 counties). PowerSouth Energy Cooperative operates a 2,200-mile power transmission system and has more than 1,600 MW of generating capacity from interests in fossil-fueled and hydroelectric power plants.

PowerVerde (formerly known as Vyrex) has abandoned its quest for a molecular fountain of youth. These days, it's only interested in power. The development-stage biotech company had been researching antioxidants to develop cures for respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases, and other conditions related to aging. Unable to continue funding its activities, however, Vyrex executed a reverse merger with PowerVerde, which has designed a power system that generates electricity with zero emissions. The system, created by the company's founders George Konrad and Fred Barker, uses solar-heated water to power an environmentally friendly motor.

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