Through its subsidiaries, the province-owned company transmits and distributes electricity to 1.3 million residential and commercial customers (including municipal utilities) in Ontario. Its primary utility subsidiaries are Hydro One Networks (transmission and distribution) and Hydro One Brampton Networks (electricity distributor to urban areas). Hydro One Telecom markets the group's fiber-optic capacity (broadband) to businesses, and Hydro One Remote Communities supplies energy to more than 20 remote areas in Ontario.

Buckeye Power was established by Ohio's rural electric co-ops to produce and transmit electric power for member systems throughout the state. Buckeye Power, which owns two of the three generating units in the at Cardinal Generating Station, contracts with other Ohio electric companies to use their transmission systems to transmit power to its member electric distribution cooperatives.It has cost a few bucks to generate power, but the effort has been well worth it for Buckeye Power, an electricity generation and transmission cooperative that provides electricity to 24 distribution companies in Ohio and one in Michigan. Together they serve more than 390,000 homes and businesses in 77 of Ohio's 88 counties

The Board of Public Utilities of Kansas City, Kansas (known as the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities) will help light the way. The utility provides electric transmission and distribution services to approximately 65,000 customers and water distribution services to 51,000 customers in the Kansas City metropolitan area (in Wyandotte and Johnson counties). The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities also has interests in coal, gas, and oil-fired power generation facilities. The utility is owned by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City.

IBERDROLA, S.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in producing, switching, retailing, and distributing electricity and gas. The company primarily generates nuclear, fossil-fuel, hydroelectric, and wind power. It also offers raw materials or primary energies required for electric power generation; energy, engineering, computer, and telecommunications services; services relating to the Internet; urban and gas retailing services; regasification, transmission or distribution services, as well as other gas storage services; assistance and support services; and real estate and other related services. In addition, the company involves in the treatment and distribution of water; representation, marketing, and distribution of various goods and services, products, articles, merchandise, computer programs, industrial equipment, machinery, machine and hand tools, spare parts, and accessories; and research, plan, and study of investment and corporate organization projects, as well as develops, sets up, and promotes industrial, commercial, and service companies. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 10 million users in Spain; 3.2 million electric customers and 2 million gas customers in the United Kingdom; 1.84 million electric customers and 0.93 million gas users in Latin America. The company is based in Bilbao, Spain.

Coast Electric Power Association when it comes to providing residents in three southern Mississippi counties with electricity. The utility uses a 6,400-mile distribution network to serve its more than 76,000 members (the great majority or which are residential customers) in Hancock, Pearl River, and Harrison counties. Coast offers electronic fund transfer and average monthly payment plans and rebates on energy efficient home improvements. The utility's power is generated by South Mississippi Electric Power, an association of Coast and 10 other cooperatives. It partners with Touchstone Energy Cooperatives.

Kelda is a Norse word meaning source of water, and Yorkshire consumers count on the UK's Kelda Group as the source for water and wastewater services. The group's primary subsidiary, Yorkshire Water Services, serves some 1.7 million residential customers, representing more than 4.8 million people, and approximately 130,000 business customers. Its Loop subsidiary provides customer relationship management services for Yorkshire Water and other utilities. In addition, Kelda is engaged in real estate development through its KeyLand unit which develops or disposies of brownfield sites. In 2008 Kelda was acquired by a consortium of investment companies made up of Citigroup, GIC, Infracapital and HSBC.

American Transmission Company is an entrepreneur in the US power grid business. Connecting electricity producers to distributors, American Transmission owns, operates, monitors, and maintains 9,400 miles of high-voltage electric transmission lines and 510 substations in portions of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. American Transmission is one of the first for-profit transmission companies, formed when the US market deregulated in the early 2000s. The company operates the former transmission assets of some of its shareholders. About 30 utilities, municipalities, municipal electric companies, and electric cooperatives in its service area have an ownership stake in American Transmission.

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.

Aqua-Pure Ventures has developed a patented wastewater distillation process used in wastewater recycling. Primarily used for industrial applications, Aqua-Pure's Clear Solutions system provides evaporation technology that can easily mix with other wastewater-treatment methods. Among its many uses, Clear Solutions may be applied for treating medical wastewater and for seawater desalination. In North America Aqua-Pure distributes the Salsnes Filter, used by municipalities and industrial companies for treating wastewater. This technology, developed by the Salsnes company in Norway, can be installed in new plants or mixed with technology already in use.

Nature Group (formerly Nature Technology Solutions) provides wastewater treatment services to the oil, shipping, and offshore industries. Its technologies treat various types of industrial, marine, and oil industry waste streams, including using an environmental-friendly additive that helps remove hydrocarbons in oily wastewater. It helps operate port treatment plants in Gibraltar and Tananger, Norway, and a sewage treatment plant in Gibraltar; it is also involved in decommissioning refineries, installing treatment plants, and treating wastewater on offshore rigs.

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