Public Works Commission of the City of Fayetteville, North Carolina (PWC), which is responsible for operating, maintaining, and upgrading the municipal electric, water, and wastewater utility systems. PWC distributes electricity and water to more than 78,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The electric utility has about 930 miles of underground power lines, 24,100 distribution line transformers and more than 47,160 poles. The water utility has 1,260 miles of mains; the wastewater unit, 1,180 miles of sewer line.

AGL Resources Inc., an energy services holding company, distributes natural gas primarily in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia. It operates in four segments: Distribution Operations, Retail Energy Operations, Wholesale Services, and Energy Investments. The Distribution Operations segment operates six natural gas distribution utilities that construct, manage, and maintain intrastate natural gas pipelines and distribution facilities. It operates approximately 46,000 miles of underground distribution and transmission mains. The Retail Energy Operations segment markets natural gas and related services under the Georgia Natural Gas name to retail customers on an unregulated basis primarily in Georgia, Ohio, and Florida, as well as to commercial and industrial customers principally in Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The Wholesale Services segment involves in asset management and optimization, storage, transportation, production, and peaking services, as well as engages in wholesale marketing business.The Energy Investments segment develops, acquires, and operates salt-dome and other storage assets in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. It has approximately 7.5 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage capacity in five LNG plants located in Georgia, New Jersey, and Tennessee, as well as owns three propane storage facilities in Virginia and Georgia. AGL Resources Inc. has a joint venture agreement with TECO Energy Inc. to provide home warranty products and services under the brand name UtiliPRO; and with El Paso Corp. to distribute liquefied natural gas (LNG) across the southeastern United States to the heavy-duty transportation market. AGL Resources Inc. was founded in 1856 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Salt River Project (SRP) provides Phoenix with two types of currents: electric and water. Electricity comes from the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, a political subdivision of the State of Arizona that has a generating capacity of about 8,100 MW and distributes power to about 934,000 homes and businesses. The district also sells excess power to wholesale customers. Water comes from the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, a private firm that delivers almost 1 million acre-feet of water per year to residents and agricultural irrigators; the association also operates dams, canals, reservoirs, and wells in its service area.

Suffolk County Water Authority provides water services to 375,600 homes and businesses (more than 1.2 million people) in New York's Suffolk County, on the eastern end of Long Island. The water authority's system (the largest water system in the nation operating entirely with groundwater) includes more than 5,500 miles of mains. The authority also runs the largest groundwater testing facility in the US. Suffolk County Water Authority is a public benefit corporation of the state of New York.

Connecticut Water Service, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a regulated water company in Connecticut. It operates in three segments: Water Activities, Real Estate Transactions, and Services and Rentals. The Water Activities segment supplies drinking water. The Real Estate Transactions segment involves in the sale or donation of its real estate holdings. The Services and Rentals segment provides contracted services to water and wastewater utilities and other clients, which include contract operations of water and wastewater facilities; Linebacker, an optional service line protection program that comprises repairing or replacing leaking or broken water service line, curb box, curb box cover, meter pit, meter pit cover, meter pit valve, and in-home water main shut off valve before the meter; and providing bulk deliveries of emergency drinking water to businesses and residences through tanker trucks. This segment also engages in leasing and renting residential and commercial properties. As of December 31, 2009, Connecticut Water Service, Inc. served 88,534 customers in 54 towns in Connecticut. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Clinton, Connecticut.

Bristol Water Group, one of the largest independent water suppliers in the UK. Through primary operating subsidiary Bristol Water plc, the group supplies water to about 500,800 customers, representing a population of more than 1.1 million. Bristol Water maintains about 6,600 km. of mains in a service territory that encompasses some 2,400 sq. km., and includes Bristol, Somerset, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire. The group has completed its disposal of its nonregulated operations and is focusing on its core regulated water business.

Energen Corporation, an energy holding company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids in the continental United States. It also involves in the purchase, distribution, and sale of natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers, as well as other end-users of natural gas in central and north Alabama. In addition, the company provides gas transportation services for industrial and commercial customers located on its distribution system. As of December 31, 2009, Energen Corporation had proved oil and gas reserves of 1,547 billion cubic feet equivalent in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado, the Permian Basin in west Texas, and the Black Warrior Basin in Alabama. Energen Corporation was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Southern Pine Electric Power Association (Southern Pine EPA) delivers the consumer-owned utility cooperative that serves about 65,000 members in south central Mississippi. The cooperative provides power over more than 10,000 miles of line to some 60,400 residential meters and 4,600 commercial meters. A board of directors, elected by Southern Pine EPA membership, sets the policies and establishes the business structure of the organization, which is led on a day-to-day operational basis by a general manager. Southern Pine EPA established four district offices in 1994 to enable the cooperative to better serve its large service area.

IDACORP, Inc., through its subsidiary, Idaho Power Company, engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, and purchase of electric energy in the United States. It owns and operates 17 hydroelectric generating plants located in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, as well as 2 natural gas-fired plants situated in southern Idaho; and owns interests in 3 coal-fired steam electric generating plants located in Wyoming, Nevada, and Oregon. As of December 31, 2009, the company supplied electric energy to approximately 490,000 general business customers involved in food processing, electronics and general manufacturing, forest products, beet sugar refining, and winter recreation industries. It had a network of approximately 4,796 pole miles of high-voltage transmission lines, 23 step-up transmission substations located at power plants, 22 transmission substations, 8 switching stations, 223 energized distribution substations, and approximately 26,675 pole miles of distribution lines. IDACORP, Inc., through its other subsidiaries, invests in housing and other real estate properties in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and has a 50% interest in 9 hydroelectric plants with a total generation capacity of 45 MW in Idaho and northern California. The company was founded in 1915 and is based in Boise, Idaho.

Great River Energy powers up cooperatives along the Great River Road. The utility provides wholesale electricity to more than 1.7 million people (at more than 639,000 homes, businesses, and farms) through 28 distribution cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. It operates more than 4,500 miles of transmission lines and has more than 2,800 MW of capacity from fossil-fueled, hydroelectric, and renewable power generation facilities. The company also owns or partially owns more than 100 transmission substations. Great River Energy is the #2 electric utility in Minnesota, in terms of generating capacity, and one of the top five largest generation and transmission cooperatives in the US (based on assets).

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