EDP Renovaveis loves the feel of the wind and the sound of the waves. One of largest wind energy companies in world, EDP Renovaveis has an annual generation capacity of about 5MW. Other power sources include solar thermal and photovoltaic energy, which create electricity from steam and solar radiation conversion, respectively. The company is also developing ocean wave generation capabilities. EDP Renovaveis has wind generation facilities in nearly 10 countries; Spain and the US (through subsidiary Horizon Wind Energy) contribute the greatest part of its wind power generation capacity. The company is the renewable division of fellow Portuguese company EDP Group, the Iberian Peninsula's third largest energy firm.

TurboSonic Technologies has a snooty attitude towards soot. The company provides industrial customers with air-pollution control equipment and products designed to enhance the performance of industrial process equipment. Selling its products worldwide, the company serves clients in the food and beverage, forest products, mining, oil and gas, waste management, and other industries. The downturn in the global economy forced the company to take cost-cutting measures in 2010, including salary reductions and unpaid leaves of absence. Director Donald Spink, Sr., the father of CEO Edward Spink, owns 8% of TurboSonic Technologies.

Coast Electric Power Association when it comes to providing residents in three southern Mississippi counties with electricity. The utility uses a 6,400-mile distribution network to serve its more than 76,000 members (the great majority or which are residential customers) in Hancock, Pearl River, and Harrison counties. Coast offers electronic fund transfer and average monthly payment plans and rebates on energy efficient home improvements. The utility's power is generated by South Mississippi Electric Power, an association of Coast and 10 other cooperatives. It partners with Touchstone Energy Cooperatives.

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.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County, Washington (or Chelan County PUD) provides power and water to residents of the county located in the middle of the Evergreen State. The utility operates three hydroelectric-generation facilities on or near the Columbia River that have a combined capacity of about 2,000 MW. About 30% of the district's electricity goes to its more than 47,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers; the rest is sold wholesale to other utilities operating in the northwestern US. Chelan County PUD also provides water and wastewater services to about 5,700 customers.

Dominion Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in producing and transporting energy in the United States. It operates in three segments: DVP, Dominion Generation, and Dominion Energy. The DVP segment includes regulated electric transmission and distribution operations that serve residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. This segment also involves in non regulated retail energy marketing of electricity and natural gas. The Dominion Generation segment includes the electricity generation through coal, nuclear, gas, oil, and renewables; and related energy supply operations. It also comprises generation operations of the company’s merchant fleet and energy marketing, and price risk management activities for these assets. The Dominion Energy segment includes the company’s Ohio and West Virginia regulated natural gas distribution companies, regulated gas transmission pipeline and storage operations, natural gas gathering and by-products extraction activities, regulated LNG import and storage, and Appalachian exploration and production operations. It also provides producer services, which aggregates natural gas supply; engages in natural gas trading and marketing activities; and involves in natural gas supply management. The company’s portfolio of assets includes approximately 27,500 MW of generation; 6,000 miles of electric transmission lines; 56,000 miles of electric distribution lines; 12,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering, and storage pipeline; and 21,700 miles of gas distribution pipeline. Dominion Resources, Inc. also owns approximately 942 bcf of storage capacity of natural gas and serves retail energy customers in 12 states. In addition, it sells electricity at wholesale prices to rural electric cooperatives, municipalities, and into wholesale electricity markets. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Pensacola power users patronize Gulf Power. The regulated utility, a subsidiary of Southern Company, transmits and distributes electricity to more than 428,150 customers in northwestern Florida. Gulf Power generates about 2,660 MW of capacity from its fossil-fueled power plants, and it operates 1,600 miles of transmission lines and about 7,650 miles of distribution lines in its service territory. The utility, which serves 10 counties and more than 70 towns and cities, also provides wholesale electricity to two distributors in Florida, and it offers conservation, outdoor lighting, surge protection, and other energy-related products and services.

Southern Union Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the gathering, processing, transportation, storage, and distribution of natural gas in the United States. It operates in three segments: Transportation and Storage, Gathering and Processing, and Distribution. The Transportation and Storage segment engages in the interstate transportation and storage of natural gas in the Midwest and from the Gulf Coast to Florida. It also provides liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminalling and regasification services. The Gathering and Processing segment involves in gathering, treating, processing, and redelivering natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) in Texas and New Mexico. It operates a network of approximately 5,500 miles of natural gas and NGL pipelines, 4 cryogenic processing plants with a combined capacity of 410 MMcf/d, and 5 natural gas treating plants with a combined capacity of 585 MMcf/d. The Distribution segment engages in the local distribution of natural gas in Missouri and Massachusetts. This segment serves approximately 550,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers through local distribution systems consisting of 9,140 miles of mains, 6,185 miles of service lines, and 45 miles of transmission lines. Southern Union company was founded in 1932 and is based in Houston, Texas.

The Electric Power Board of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is a mouthful. Its operating name, Nashville Electric Service (NES), sounds much better. And talking of sound, the legendary "Nashville Sound" would be hard to hear without the resources of this power distributor, which serves more than 357,000 customers in central Tennessee. NES is one of the largest government-owned utilities in the US, and operates more than 90,500 distribution transformers and about 230 substations. The company is required to purchase all its power from another government-owned operator, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

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).

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