Southern Union Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the gathering, processing, transportation, storage, and distribution of natural gas in the United States. It operates in three segments: Transportation and Storage, Gathering and Processing, and Distribution. The Transportation and Storage segment engages in the interstate transportation and storage of natural gas in the Midwest and from the Gulf Coast to Florida. It also provides liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminalling and regasification services. The Gathering and Processing segment involves in gathering, treating, processing, and redelivering natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) in Texas and New Mexico. It operates a network of approximately 5,500 miles of natural gas and NGL pipelines, 4 cryogenic processing plants with a combined capacity of 410 MMcf/d, and 5 natural gas treating plants with a combined capacity of 585 MMcf/d. The Distribution segment engages in the local distribution of natural gas in Missouri and Massachusetts. This segment serves approximately 550,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers through local distribution systems consisting of 9,140 miles of mains, 6,185 miles of service lines, and 45 miles of transmission lines. Southern Union company was founded in 1932 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Privatization is the light at the end of the tunnel for Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil's largest power generators. Known as CESP, the company is the largest generator of electricity used in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. CESP's six hydroelectric facilities (57 generation units) have a capacity of more than 7,456 MW. It gets most of its revenues from distribution utilities. Sao Paulo state government-controlled CESP previously had 22 power plants, but it spun off two generating companies and a transmission company in 1999. The slimmer CESP was targeted for auction, but the state government postponed the sale. CESP is restructuring its debt and is focusing on operational efficiency.

Seeking fame and fortune in and outside Finland, energy powerhouse Fortum generates electric power across the region. In the Baltic Rim its power plants create electricity (more than 10,980 MW of generation capacity), and heat. Fortum distributes electricity to 1.6 million customers (primarily in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden). The company also has significant operations in a growth area, Russia, including 2,785 MW of power generation capacity. (Russia accounted for about 9% of Fortum's total revenues in 2009). Fortum has divested its oil and engineering assets in order to focus on its core power and heating businesses.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Cowlitz County, Washington (or Cowlitz County Public Utility District), a Depression era institution that provides electric utility services to 47,400 customers (including 42,400 residential customers and 5,200 commercial clients) in its service territory. The municipal utility also serves more than 3,800 Longview-Kelso area water utility customers. Like 27 other PUDs in Washington state, Cowlitz County Public Utility District has the authority to offer electric, water, wastewater, and wholesale telecommunication service.

Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona, S.A. (Agbar) distributes water to more than 12 million people (almost 19 million during tourist season) and provides wastewater services for more than 6.2 million people. The company also has stakes in water businesses in Chile and the UK. Agbar has sold its solid-waste collection and treatment operations in order to focus on its core water business. Activities in Spain account for about 83% of the company's sales. Agbar is 66%-owned by Holding de Infraestructuras y Servicios Urbanos S.A.

Pepco Energy Services continues to sail right along. The company provides electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in deregulated areas (primarily the US eastern seaboard, Chicago, and Texas). The nonregulated energy supply company, a subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, offers services in energy management, energy-efficiency consulting, "green power" facilities development and construction, and equipment maintenance. It operates two power plants with a aggregate capacity of 790 MW. Pepco Energy Services also provides its customers the choice of sourcing power from green sources (from solar, wind, and biomass plants).

Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division (MLGW) helps lighten up the Memphis blues. The municipally owned utility provides electricity, water, and natural gas services for all of Shelby County, Tennessee, including the city of Memphis. It serves primarily residential and commercial customers. MLGW buys electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and distributes it to more than 420,000 customers. The company purchases natural gas on the spot market, transmits it through open access pipelines, and delivers it to about 320,000 customers. Through its artesian water system, MLGW supplies water to more than 257,000 customers.

When the Blue Moon of Kentucky is not enough to light the way, East Kentucky Power Cooperative is there to help. The company generates and transmits electricity to 16 local distribution cooperatives, which in turn provide electricity to 519,000 customers in 87 counties in eastern Kentucky. East Kentucky Power operates more than 2,900 miles of transmission lines, and generates most of its electricity from primarily fossil-fueled power plants with more than 2,500 MW of capacity. The company also operates landfill-gas generation facilities and purchases hydroelectric power from the Southeastern Power Administration.

Hyflux Ltd., an investment holding company, provides integrated water management and environmental solutions. The company involves in the seawater desalination, raw water purification, wastewater cleaning, water recycling, water reclamation, and ultra pure water production for municipal and industrial clients, as well as provides home consumer filtration and purification products. It also designs, builds, and sells water treatment plants, seawater desalination plants, wastewater treatment plants, and water recycling plants under service concession arrangements. In addition, the company engages in the development of membrane applications in resource recovery, waste recycling, and energy reclamation, including applications, such as used oil recovery and recycling; development and commercialization of specialty materials, such as l-lactic acid from natural renewable resources; and separation, concentration, and purification treatments for manufacturing process streams. It has operations in Singapore, Southeast Asia, China, India, Algeria, the Middle East, and North Africa. Hyflux Ltd. has a joint venture agreement with Mitsui & Co. Ltd. to develop water projects in China. The company was formerly known as Hydrochem (S) Pte Ltd. Hyflux Ltd. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Singapore, Singapore.

Toronto Hydro provides electric and related services for the metropolitan area and other parts of Ontario. The company's primary subsidiary, Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited (LDC), provides regulated power transmission and distribution services to 688,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Subsidiary Toronto Hydro Energy Services markets power and provides energy efficiency products and services throughout Ontario. It also provides street lighting services (160,000 street lights) in the City of Toronto.

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