IDACORP, Inc., through its subsidiary, Idaho Power Company, engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, and purchase of electric energy in the United States. It owns and operates 17 hydroelectric generating plants located in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, as well as 2 natural gas-fired plants situated in southern Idaho; and owns interests in 3 coal-fired steam electric generating plants located in Wyoming, Nevada, and Oregon. As of December 31, 2009, the company supplied electric energy to approximately 490,000 general business customers involved in food processing, electronics and general manufacturing, forest products, beet sugar refining, and winter recreation industries. It had a network of approximately 4,796 pole miles of high-voltage transmission lines, 23 step-up transmission substations located at power plants, 22 transmission substations, 8 switching stations, 223 energized distribution substations, and approximately 26,675 pole miles of distribution lines. IDACORP, Inc., through its other subsidiaries, invests in housing and other real estate properties in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and has a 50% interest in 9 hydroelectric plants with a total generation capacity of 45 MW in Idaho and northern California. The company was founded in 1915 and is based in Boise, Idaho.

Global Water Resources (GWRI) took the phrase "Think globally, act locally" to heart. The company provides water, wastewater, and recycled water utility services to 14 utilities and more than 60,000 people in its service area around Phoenix. Its recycled water is treated and purified wastewater used for non-potable and outdoor purposes, sent through a separate system of pipes than drinking water. GWRI says its reclaimed water project saves up to 40% of drought-prone Arizona's scarce groundwater. The utility also extends water and wastewater infrastructure financing to regional developers and builders. The company was formed in 2003. Once privately held, GWRI went public in an IPO in late 2010.

Clyde Bergemman EEC designs and supplies custom-engineered air-pollution control systems and offers related services. Its systems scrub out dust and acid gases from plant emissions to meet strict regulations. Customers include power generators and paper and pulp producers. Its products include ammonia-on-demand systems (which control emissions from power generators), electrostatic precipitators, and fabric filtration systems. The company is a unit of energy services provider Clyde Bergemman Power Group.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Clark County (Clark Public Utilities) provides utility services to residents and businesses in Clark County, Washington. Clark Public Utilities transmits and distributes electricity to more than 182,000 customers; the company generates about half of its power supply at its 250-MW gas-fired power plant and purchases the rest from other generators, including the Bonneville Power Administration. Clark Public Utilities also distributes water to about 30,000 customers and collects and treats wastewater for the City of La Center, Washington.

Southern Pine Electric Power Association (Southern Pine EPA) delivers the consumer-owned utility cooperative that serves about 65,000 members in south central Mississippi. The cooperative provides power over more than 10,000 miles of line to some 60,400 residential meters and 4,600 commercial meters. A board of directors, elected by Southern Pine EPA membership, sets the policies and establishes the business structure of the organization, which is led on a day-to-day operational basis by a general manager. Southern Pine EPA established four district offices in 1994 to enable the cooperative to better serve its large service area.

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).

The Native American inhabitants of Georgia may have used flint to spark the fires that brought light to their dwellings. Central Georgians today rely on the Flint Electric Membership Corporation, which does business as Flint Energies, to light their homes. Flint Energies serves 250,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers (through 82,500 meters) in 17 counties, Fort Benning, and the city of Warner Robins. The customer-owned cooperative operates more than 6,250 miles of distribution line and about 50 substations. Flint Energies first flicked the switch in 1937.

Southern California Edison (SCE) distributes electricity to a population of more than 13 million people in central, coastal, and Southern California (excluding Los Angeles and some other cities in the regions). The utility's system consists of about 12,000 circuit miles of transmission lines and more than 113,500 circuit miles of distribution lines. SCE also has 5,500 MW of net generating capacity from interests in nuclear, hydroelectric, and fossil-fueled power plants; it sold most of its fossil-fueled facilities in response to the state's deregulation legislation. The utility sells excess power to wholesale customers. SCE is a subsidiary of Edison International.

Targa Resources Corp., through its general and limited partner interests in Targa Resources Partners LP, provides midstream natural gas and natural gas liquid (NGL) services in the United States. It engages in gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and selling natural gas; and storing, fractionating, treating, transporting, and selling NGLs and NGL products. The company owns and operates approximately 11,169 miles of natural gas pipelines and approximately 800 miles of NGL pipelines, with natural gas gathering systems covering approximately 13,500 square miles and 21 natural gas processing plants with access to natural gas supplies in the Permian Basin, the Fort Worth Basin, the onshore region of the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico. It sells its products to petrochemical manufacturers, refineries, multi-state retailers, and independent retailers. Targa Resources Corp. was founded in 2004 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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.

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