Allegheny Energy, Inc. owns and operates electric generation facilities, and delivers electric services to customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia. The company owns or contractually controls coal-, gas-, and oil-fired generation facilities, as well as hydro generation facilities. It operates in two segments, The Merchant Generation and The Regulated Operations. The Merchant Generation segment owns, operates, and manages electric generation facilities, as well as purchases and sells energy and energy-related commodities. This segment markets its electric generation capacity to various customers and markets, including certain of its affiliates, as well as uses both derivative and nonderivative contracts to manage its portfolio of contracts. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or contractually controlled 7,015 megawatts of generation capacity. The Regulated Operations segment operates electric public utility systems that include electricity generation, transmission, and distribution facilities. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or contractually controlled 2,741 megawatts of generation capacity. This segment served approximately 383,600 customers in northern West Virginia; approximately 483,400 customers in portions of West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia; approximately 102,000 customers in northern Virginia; and approximately 714,900 customers in southwestern, south-central, and northern Pennsylvania. The company is headquartered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Having access to power is the natural state in the Natural State, thanks to Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC), the sole wholesale power provider for 17 Arkansas electric distribution cooperatives. The company operates power plants with about 2,640 MW of generating capacity, owns transmission assets, and purchases wholesale power to meet its members' demands. Affiliate Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (AECI) provides administrative and maintenance services to the distribution companies. The distribution utilities, which serve 490,000 customers throughout more than 60% of Arkansas' area, along with AECC and AECI, operate as the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas.

Active Power, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets critical power quality solutions. It provides various products that deliver continuous clean power, and protects customers from voltage fluctuations, such as surges and sags, and frequency fluctuations, as well as offer temporary power to bridge the gap between a power outage and the restoration of utility power. The company offers CleanSource UPS, a battery free uninterruptible power supply system (UPS) that integrates UPS electronics and flywheel energy storage system into one compact cabinet. Active Power, Inc. also provides CleanSource DC, which is a battery-free replacement option for lead-acid batteries for use in bridging power; CoolAir DC; CoolAir UPS; and GenSTART, which is a battery-free, starting modular system. It offers continuous power systems that comprise UPS system, switchgear, and a generator under the PowerHouse brand name. Active Power, Inc. also provides services, including engineering, installation, start-up, monitoring, and repair for its products. The company serves data centers, manufacturing, technology, broadcast and communications, financial, utilities, healthcare, government, and airport industries. It sells its products through direct sales employees, value added resellers, manufacturers representatives, distributors, strategic IT partners, and original equipment manufacturer partners in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Thermal Energy International ledgers are in the black. The company focuses on providing air pollution control, renewable energy, and waste heat recovery and other energy conservation products, primarily under the Flu-Ace and Dry-Rex names. It also offers complementary engineering services. Thermal Energy International is also developing a product that targets ozone generation, THERMALOZOMAX. Customers include auto manufacturers; coal-fired utilities; food makers; hospitals; primary metal, pulp and paper processors; and sewage-treatment facilities.

These electric cooperatives serve more than 750,000 residents, businesses, industries and farms in a 15,000 sq. ml. service area. It operates four electric power plants and a 1,450-mile trasmission system, and maintains the Tuttle Creek Reservoir in Southwest Indiana. Hoosier Energy is part of the Touchstone Energy network of electric cooperatives.Who's yer daddy? In terms of providing electricity, for many Indianans (and some residents of Illinois) that would be Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, which provides wholesale electric power to 18 member distribution cooperatives in 48 central and southern Indiana counties, and 11 counties in southeastern Illinois.

Clean water is the goal of H2O Innovation. For amusement parks, campgrounds, cities, schools, zoos, and other enterprises, H2O Innovation uses micro filtration, ultra filtration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis to create drinking water, as well as clean water for manufacturing and other purposes. H2O Innovations also treats wastewater, offers equipment for the maple syrup industry, and desalinates seawater and brackish water. In 2007 it became the first North American company to be listed on the Alternext (Euronext) Exchange in Paris. By 2008 the company had installed more than 400 systems in Canada, the US, and elsewhere.

Veolia Water Central Limited provides water to more than 3.5 million customers. Veolia Water Central provides water services to a number of counties (including Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, and Surrey, as well as the London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Harrow, and Hillingdon). The company is a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement, a France-based utility and environmental services giant. Veolia Water Central traces its origins back some 130 years.

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.

TestAmerica Laboratories (formerly Severn Trent Laboratories) can tell you. It operates about 40 environmental testing laboratories and more than 30 service centers in the US. TestAmerica provides chemical, physical, and biological testing of air, drinking water, tissue, and solid waste. The company has developed technologies to test air for fire retardants, explosives, radiation, and source emissions. Its affiliates include environmental and geotechnical drilling firm TestAmerica Drilling, water sampling equipment and remediation pumping system provider QED Environmental Systems, and air quality analyst EMLab P&K).

Trans-Elect has elected itself as a cross-border power company. The independent transmission company owns and operates about 12,600 miles of high-voltage power lines in portions of Canada and the US. The company acts as a wholesale provider of electricity to distribution companies. It operates the former transmission assets of of US utility Consumers Energy; it is also part of an international consortium that operates the former transmission assets of Canadian power distributor TransAlta. The acquisitions were the first of their kind in the deregulating North American electricity market. Trans-Elect is also involved in several expansion projects in congested areas of the US grid.

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