Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County, Washington, probably used up its initial budget before it could hire a team of branding and identity consultants. But a dour name does not stop the power provider (commonly referred to as Grant County PUD) from operating two hydroelectric power plants on the Columbia River (2,000 MW of generating capacity) and distributing electricity to the 40,000 residents of Washington's Grant County. The district, which was formed in 1938 and went into operation in 1942, also sells power to twelve Pacific Northwest utilities and is developing a residential fiber-optic data network.

Dalkia doesn't balk when it comes to managing its clients' energy needs. The company's services include electricity, water, and natural gas procurement, energy efficiency consulting, electrical and mechanical contracting, building management control, and outsourced facilities maintenance. It installs onsite power generation, HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), water treatment, fire protection, and lighting systems. The company serves manufacturers, offices, schools, hospitals, and other businesses. Its Sterience subsidiary sterilizes surgical instruments for hospitals.

Northeast Utilities (NU) uses a little Yankee ingenuity (and a number of power generation plants) to keep its customers powered up. The largest utility in New England, NU supplies power to more than 2 million customers in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts through subsidiaries Connecticut Light and Power, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts Electric. The company's power grid encompasses more than 3,100 circuit miles of overhead transmission lines and more than 32,800 pole miles of distribution lines. NU's Yankee Gas utility provides natural gas to 205,000 customers in Connecticut. In 2010 the company offered to buy regional rival NSTAR in for $4.2 billion.

Although The Peoples Natural Gas Company brings the power of natural gas to the people of the Keystone state. The company, which operates as Dominion Peoples, serves about 359,000 commercial, industrial, residential, and transportation natural gas customers in 16 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. By purchasing methane gas in Pennsylvania, the company keeps costs down by eliminating out-of-state transportation expenses. The gas utility was a division of Dominion Delivery, the gas and electric distribution and retail energy marketing unit of Dominion Resources. In 2010 Dominion Resources sold Peoples Natural Gas to a unit of investment firm SteelRiver Infrastructure.

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.

LifeSource Water Systems uses is customer satisfaction. The water treatment product company manufactures and distributes water filtration equipment to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. LifeSource Water Systems' system uses an activated carbon filter rather than salts or chemicals. Its Beotron branded systems have earned the Gold Seal certification issued by the Water Quality Association. The company operates primarily in California; it also maintains outlets in Idaho and Nevada. LifeSource Water Systems was founded in 1984.

Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative Company Profile Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative squeezes the most efficiency out of the power distribution cooperative it manages. One of 23 rural electric cooperatives in Tennessee, Sequachee Valley Electric Cooperative distributes power to more than 33,000 residential, commercial, and industrial members in part or all of Bledsoe, Coffee, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, Rhea, Sequatchie, and Van Buren counties. It buys wholesale power from the Tennessee Valley Authority. Sequachee Valley Electric is governed by an 11-person board of directors, directly elected by its membership.

Union Gas has a habit of bringing natural gas and energy consumers together. The utility, a subsidiary of midstream maven Spectra Energy transmits and distributes natural gas to more than 1.3 million residential and business customers in more than 400 communities throughout most of the Canadian province of Ontario. It also provides gas transportation and storage services for other utilities and businesses in Canada and the US. Union Gas operates 3,000 miles of transmission pipeline, 37,000 miles of distribution main and service pipeline, and 22 underground storage facilities.

Compressco Partners puts the pressure on before the natural gas and oil wells run dry. The company specializes in providing services to more than 400 natural gas and oil companies across 14 states to increase production and total recoverable reserves. The company offers compression, liquids separation, and gas metering services, as well as the GasJack units that perform these operations. It applies its services primarily to mature wells, but also on newer wells, which have declined in production. Compressco Partners, a subsidiary of TETRA Technologies, also provides well evaluations and well testing and monitoring services in Mexico.

Alabamans and Floridians come together in PowerSouth Energy Cooperative (formerly Alabama Electric Cooperative), which provides wholesale power services to its member-owners (20 cooperative and municipal distribution utilities and one industrial company). Its distribution members provide electric services to almost 419,000 meters in central and southern Alabama (39 counties) and western Florida (10 counties). PowerSouth Energy Cooperative operates a 2,200-mile power transmission system and has more than 1,600 MW of generating capacity from interests in fossil-fueled and hydroelectric power plants.

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