Light and Power Company (CL&P) keeps the folks in the Constitution State connected. CL&P provides electric utility services to more than 1.2 million customers (more than 90% residential) in nearly 150 Connecticut communities. The electric utility, a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities (NU), has more than 235 substations, almost 280,800 transformers and owns and operates regulated transmission and distribution assets in its 4,400-sq.-mile service territory. It has more than 22,800 miles of distribution lines and almost 1,700 miles of transmission lines. CL&P's transmission assets are monitored by ISO New England.

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.

Let's cut right to the point: construction materials and mining used to be the lifeblood of Knife River Corporation, but in recent years, its energy and utility operations have grown to be the largest portion of its business. Oil and natural gas production, power transmission, pipelines and power utilities now dominate Knife River's balance sheet. But don't count out its construction services division, which continues to produce record earnings. Knife River has operations in Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. The company is a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group, Inc.

Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) is committed to redoubling efforts to serve this Florida city with three double letters in its name. KUA operates the municipal power distribution system serving 62,000 commercial and industrial, and residential customers in Kissimmee and surrounding areas. It also offers its customers internet, telephone, and security services. In addition, the community-owned utility has stakes in some power generation units. The century-old company is used to managing operations in a hurricane prone area. In 2009 the company piloted a 4-day working week option for its employees as a way to bring down costs.

A company so nice they named it twice is doubling its efforts to deliver power. NRG Energy, a leading power producer with a generating capacity of about 24,500 MW (including 345 MW from renewable energy), is moving onward and upward. The vast majority of NRG's power plants are in North America, but it also has one in Australia and one in Germany. The company's global portfolio includes about 190 generation units at 47 power plants. It also markets natural gas, oil, and other commodities, and invests in district heating and cooling and alternative energy projects. Its retail unit, Reliant Energy, distributes power to more than 1.6 million residential, business, commercial, and industrial customers in Texas.

Artesian Resources Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides water, wastewater, and engineering services on the Delmarva Peninsula. It distributes and sells water to residential, commercial, industrial, governmental, municipal, and utility customers in the states of Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The company also provides water for public and private fire protection to customers in its service territories. In addition, it designs and builds water and wastewater infrastructure; and provides contract water, wastewater, and engineering services. As of December 31, 2009, the company had approximately 76,900 metered customers and 730 wastewater customers, and served a population of approximately 276,000. It served customers through approximately 1,124 miles of transmission and distribution mains. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Newark, Delaware.

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.

Clearford Industries provides water and wastewater management and sewage treatment services throughout North America. For rural areas the company's patented Small Bore Sewer technology obviates the need for a septic tank by using pipes with a narrow diameter -- as opposed to larger ones used in urban systems -- to transport waste from a residence to a wastewater treatment plant. In 2008 the company sold its Brooklin Concrete division, a leading producer of septic tanks in Ontario, to Armtec Limited Partnership.

Anaheim Public Utilities,the municipal utility's power division serves residential, industrial, and commercial customers and has interests in fossil-fueled, nuclear, and alternative generation facilities. Its water division gets its supply from its water well system and from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Anaheim Public Utilities is the only municipal water and electric utility in Orange County.

Pampa Energ�a is one of Argentina's largest fully integrated electricity companies. Through subsidiaries or co-controlled companies, it generates more than 7% of the total electricity in Argentina, transmits some 95% of the country's electricity through transmission lines owned and operated by subsidiary Transener, and distributes electricity to more than 2.6 million residential and commercial customers through subsidiary Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte (Edenor), the largest electricity distributor in Argentina. Pampa Energ�a maintains fossil fuel, thermal, and hydroelectric generation operations. Its distribution, transmission, and hydroelectric activities are regulated by Argentina's government.

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