NORESCO provides utility customers in the US with infrastructure development, design/build services, commissioning strategies, financing, and client-centered asset management services. The company develops and implements build/own/operate distributed generation, cogeneration, or combined heat and power projects; arranges, on a consulting basis, commodity electricity or gas supply; and provides firm contracting of energy supply. It also holds interests in independent power plants. Global leader in HVAC products and systems Carrier, a unit of UTC, owns NORESCO.

Terranext focuses its earthbound geotechnical engineering expertise on the next project, as well as the one it is currently working on. An affiliate of engineering group BE&K, Terranext provides environmental engineering and consulting services to industrial, commercial, and government customers through half a dozen offices (in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, and New Jersey). The company's services include air quality management, cultural, and natural resource conservation, energy reduction engineering, pollution prevention, water management, and site investigation and remediation. Since 1985 the woman-owned business has conducted more than 3,000 environmental projects.

South Staffordshire Water distributes water to more than 1.2 million people in the West Midlands and other areas of central England. The utility gets its water from two main sources, Blithfield Reservoir in the north and Chelmarsh in the south, which together supply approximately 330 megaliters per day. Its water treatment facilities are on the River Severn at Hampton Loade and at a treatment works near Lichfield. The company is the main subsidiary of South Staffordshire Plc. South Staffordshire Water was founded in 1853 by the Earl of Dudley to supply water to residents of Black County.

Marsulex is scrubbing up smokestacks in North America. The company provides outsourced air-quality regulation compliance services to the oil refinery and power generation industries. Among Marsulex's emission-control products are spent acid regeneration and sulphate scrubbing systems; the firm also processes and sells sulphur by-products. Customers in Marsulex's oil-refinery segment include Shell, Petro-Canada, BP, and Sunoco. The company provides services to power-generation customers worldwide. Marsulex operates seven plants in Canada and ten in the US, including one in Southern California. In 2009 investment firm Harrowston Holding acquired control of Marsulex.

ENVIRON is looking to clean up financially while helping to clean up the environment. An international environmental consulting firm, ENVIRON specializes in assessing risk factors related to the presence of chemicals in the environment and in products such as food, drugs, medical devices, and consumer goods. The consulting firm also helps clients comply with various environmental regulations. The company operates through two practices: environmental sciences and energy services; and health sciences. ENVIRON maintains offices in 18 countries the US, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region, and has completed projects in more than 70 countries.

East Bay Municipal Utility District provides potable water to 1.3 million people in a 331-square-mile area (which includes the cities of Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland). Its wastewater system serves 650,000 people in an 88-square-mile area of Alameda and Contra Costa counties along San Francisco Bay's east shore. EBMUD operates 4,110 miles of water mains, and 160 storage reservoirs. The company also provides recreational services at five of its reservoirs.

The Intermountain Gas Company story began in 1950 when Nat and Myrtis Campbell read a newspaper article that piqued their interest in the natural gas industry. Intermountain Gas Company was incorporated that year. After five years of hard work laying the foundation for a new public utility company, Intermountain Gas Company received certification from the Idaho Public Utilities Commission on December 10, 1955. Then, on December 31, 1955, we connected our first five customers. Since then, Intermountain Gas Company has grown along with Idaho. Today, Intermountain Gas Company is a natural gas distribution company serving approximately 305,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 74 communities in southern Idaho. Intermountain is a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group, Inc., a multidemensional natural resources enterprise traded on the New York Stock Exchange as "MDU", www.mdu.com.

Southern Company isn't just whistling Dixie. The holding company is one of the largest electricity distributors in the US. It operates regulated utilities Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, which combined have a generating capacity of more than 42,900 MW and serve more than 4.4 million electricity customers in the southeastern US. The good ol' power company also has energy marketing operations, and it provides energy consulting and management services for businesses and institutions. Through its Southern LINC Wireless unit, it provides wireless communications services in its US utility territory; its Southern Telecom unit offers wholesale fiber-optic services.

Alpheus Environmental finds answers in a range of environmental-related services: water and wastewater treatment, operations and maintenance, infrastructure management and contracting, waste management and recycling, and technical support. A unit of water utility group AWG (formerly Anglian Water), it offers design, build, and project management services for blue-chip companies in the process industry. Services include installing water, gas, electricity, roads, and sewers on development sites. Customers include TOTAL, Whitbread, and the Derby City Council. Alpheus Environmental manages water management, waste minimization, and recycling sites across the UK.

Energy and Power Solutions (EPS) would like to help. The start up company, which promises up to a 25% energy savings using its methods, makes most of its money building on-site clean energy power plants. It also sells electrical and thermal power and operates power plants on behalf of its customers. But EPS touts its xChange Point energy monitoring software as the growth engine of the future. The software tracks energy use at the device, plant, and enterprise level in real time; EPS analysts use the data to recommend energy saving changes. The company, which filed to go public in 2010, has four customers using its products at more than 60 locations.

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