GAIL (India) Limited is no blowhard when it comes to turning energy into profits. The largest gas transmission and marketing company in India, GAIL owns more than 6,700 km of pipeline and has a 78% market share in India's natural gas transmission business. It has seven gas processing units and owns India's largest gas-based petrochemicals complex. In addition, GAIL has major domestic exploration and production operations. It also has a fiber-optic cable network of 13,000 km that provides bandwidth to telecommunications carriers. It is also involved in liquefied natural gas import projects. In 2010 GAIL (India) Limited expressed an interest in buying US shale assets. The government of India owns 57% of the company.

Westar Energy wished upon a star, and the answer was -- "focus on power utility resources." Westar Energy has a generating capacity of more than 7,100 MW (mostly from fossil-fueled facilities) and serves about 685,000 electricity customers in Kansas through its utility subsidiaries. Westar Energy supplies power to 368,000 retail customers in central and northeast Kansas, and subsidiary Kansas Gas and Electric (KGE) supplies power to 317,000 retail customers in south-central and southeastern Kansas. The company operates 34,200 miles of transmission and distribution lines. It supplies wholesale electric power to more than 30 cities in Kansas and four electric cooperatives that serve rural areas.

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.

Catalytic Combustion Corporation clears the air -- literally and alliteratively. The company makes systems, processes, and products to help customers eliminate volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other pollutants in order to meet air-quality standards. Catalytic Combustion's catalysts -- substances that accelerate the rate of chemical reactions -- are used in a host of industries and products, ranging from appliances to graphic arts to nuclear power plants. The company makes catalysts from materials such as ceramics, metal foil, and wire mesh. Catalytic Combustion was founded in 1950.

ITC Holdings Corp. (NYSE: ITC) invests in the electricity transmission grid to improve electric reliability, expand access to markets, lower the overall cost of delivered energy and allow new generating resources to interconnect to its transmission systems. The largest independent electricity transmission company in the country, ITC operates high-voltage transmission systems in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and portions of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, serving a combined peak load in excess of 25,000 megawatts through its regulated operating subsidiaries, ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC), ITC Midwest and ITC Great Plains. ITC also focuses on new areas where significant transmission system improvements are needed through ITC Grid Development and its subsidiaries.

Alabama Power powers up Southern Rockers and others in the heart of Dixie. The Southern Company subsidiary provides electricity to nearly 1.4 million residential and business customers in Alabama. The utility operates more than 91,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines, and it has nuclear, hydroelectric, and fossil-fueled power plant interests that give it a generating capacity of more than 12,200 MW. Alabama Power sells wholesale power to more than 15 municipal and rural distribution utilities; it also provides steam transmission (used for heating and cooling buildings) in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and sells electric appliances (such as thermostats, ovens, and washing machines)

First Electric Cooperative wasn't the first electric cooperative ever formed, but it was the first such entity created in its home state. The member-owned utility distributes power to more than 85,000 customers in 17 central and southeastern Arkansas counties. It also offers its members a range of energy products and value-added services, including energy efficient Marathon water heaters, surge and lightning protection equipment, and compact fluorescent light bulbs. Some 72% of the cooperative's revenues come from residential customers; commercial and industrial customers account for another 20%, and the rest comes from such sources as irrigation and street lighting.

EVN spreads energy evenly across its territory in Lower Austria and beyond. The utility -- one of Austria's largest -- provides electricity, natural gas, heat, and related services. Outside its home borders, the company has gained control of electricity suppliers in Bulgaria and Macedonia, as these countries privatized their electricity industry. It is also marketing its environmental services (water, wastewater treatment, and waste incineration activities) around Europe. The company has built drinking water and wastewater treatment plants in Croatia, Poland, and Russia EVN has also put its waste-incineration know-how to good use and has a waste-to-energy plant in Moscow.

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.

Siemens Water Technologies Corp. company is a leading producer of water- and wastewater-treatment equipment worldwide. Through its Water and Wastewater Systems and Water Services and Products groups, Siemens Water Technologies provides services to municipal, industrial, and institutional clients. It has more than 200,000 installations on several continents and a portfolio of more than 900 water treatment products and technologies. Among its other services are ion exchange resin recycling and thermal reactivation processes that reduce carbon expenditure. The company is a subsidiary of Siemens Industry.

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