New Universe International Group supplies injection molds and plastic products primarily to global manufacturers of automotive parts and medical equipment, while its environmental businesses, owned by subsidiary New Universe Environmental Technologies, provide removal and treatment of industrial and medical waste in China. The company's plastics products are exported to customers in Europe, the Far East, and the US including Canon, Ford, Volvo, and Whirlpool. The company is controlled by CEO Xi Yu who owns parent company New Universe Enterprises.

Alkane Energy pursues the arcane task of extracting methane gas from abandoned coal mines in the UK and Germany for the dual purposes of direct supply to industrial clients and for on-site power generation. A renewable energy company, Alkane aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, through the capturing of coalbed methane and its conversion to energy. The company designs, builds, and services containerized methane treatment plants and electricity generation facilities that use biogas, landfill gas, sewage gas, and coal mine methane. Alskane operates seven biogas-to-electricity sites in the UK and one in Germany.

Sutton and East Surrey Water supplies water in southern England. The regulated utility distributes water to about 252,000 residential customers and some 18,000 businesses, (a population about 650,000 people), in the London boroughs of Croydon, Merton, and Sutton, as well as East Surrey and parts of Kent and Sussex. Formerly a subsidiary of East Surrey Holdings, the company was acquired by private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners in 2005 when Terra Firma was required to buy the parent company in order to obtain gas company Phoenix Natural Gas. Terra Firma quickly sold the water utility to a fund of Germany's Deutsche Bank.

Techem knows when the heat is on. The company is a leading European utility services firm (with operations in 20 countries) that monitors energy and water consumption in 8 million end-user households, primarily apartments and multi-family dwellings in Germany. It also offers its 690,000 clients additional services such as heat and water meter sales and rentals, heating system maintenance, and bill collection. Techem Energy Contracting builds and operates facilities for energy supply, and the company's IT division offers property management software.

Ormat Technologies is on an environmentally safe power trip, building geothermal as well as recovered energy power plants. Geothermal technology extracts hot water or steam that is vaporized and used to drive turbines. The fluid is then cooled and recycled back through the process, making it a clean and renewable energy source. Recovered energy utilizes heat produced in other industrial processes. The company, set up by Israel-based Ormat Industries, also sells power units for both types of plants, and sells fossil fuel powered turbo-generators with a capacity of between 400 watts and 4,000 watts. Ormat operates power plants (with a total of 518 MW of power) in Guatemala (2), Kenya, Nicaragua, and the US (10).

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.

El Paso Electric Company, a public utility company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity primarily in west Texas and southern New Mexico. It principally operates nuclear, natural gas, and coal power plants, as well as purchases power. The company also operates wind turbines. As of December 31, 2009, it owned 6 electrical generating facilities with a net generating capacity of approximately 1,643 megawatts. The company served approximately 370,000 residential, commercial, industrial, public authority, and wholesale customers. It sells its products to electric utilities and power marketers, as well as to oil, copper refining, and steel production facilities, and the United States military installations. The company was founded in 1901 and is based in El Paso, Texas.

Energy Northwest provides electricity to public utility districts (PUDs) and municipalities in the northwestern US. The company, which is owned by the utilities it serves, has interests in nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, and solar power generation facilities. Energy Northwest is a joint operating agency comprised of about 30 member public utilities from across the state of Washington. Its four electricity generating stations are Columbia Generating Station, Nine Canyon Wind Project, Packwood Lake Hydroelectric Project, and the White Bluffs Solar Station. The company has a total generating capacity of 1,400 MW.

Manitoba Hydro-Electric (commonly called Manitoba Hydro) provides electricity to 532,000 customers in the province of Manitoba. Its power is generated from hydroelectric facilities capable of producing about 32 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. Manitoba Hydro, which is owned by the government of Manitoba, also exports power to utilities and energy marketers in the US and other Canadian provinces. Through its Centra Gas subsidiary, the company distributes natural gas to 264,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 100 communities in Manitoba.

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is prepared to serve an entire island nation. Founded in 1941, the government-owned utility is the sole electricity distributor for Puerto Rico, where it serves approximately 1.4 million residential and business customers. PREPA owns five primarily fossil-fueled power plants that give it nearly 5,800 MW of generating capacity, and it has more than 30,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines. In order to keep up with increasing demand, the Puerto Rican government has allowed independent power producers to build cogeneration plants on the island to sell power to PREPA.

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