Northwest Natural Gas Company stores and distributes natural gas in Oregon, Washington, and California. The company operates in two segments, Local Gas Distribution and Gas Storage. The Local Gas Distribution segment distributes natural gas in Oregon and southwest Washington. This segment engages in building and maintaining pipeline distribution system, purchasing gas from producers and marketers, contracting for the transportation of gas over pipelines from the supply basins to service territory, and reselling the gas to customers. It also transports gas owned by customers from the interstate pipeline connection, or city gate, to the customers’ facilities. This segment serves various industries, including pulp, paper, and other forest products; companies manufacturing electronic, electrochemical, and electrometallurgical products; companies engaged in processing of farm and food products; metal fabrication and casting companies; organizations that produce various mineral products, machine tools, machinery, and textiles; companies that manufacture asphalt, concrete, and rubber; printing and publishing companies; nurseries; government and educational institutions; and electric generation companies. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 668,000 total utility customers comprising approximately 605,000 residential, 62,000 commercial, and 1,000 industrial sales and transportation customers. The Gas Storage segment offers underground natural gas storage services to interstate and intrastate customers in the Pacific Northwest. It holds interests in approximately 8,500 net acres of underground natural gas storage in Oregon and approximately 1,900 net acres of underground natural gas storage in California; and interests in approximately 1,600 net acres of oil and gas leases in Oregon. This segment serves primarily natural gas distribution, electric generation, and energy marketing companies. Northwest Natural Gas Company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Buckeye Power was established by Ohio's rural electric co-ops to produce and transmit electric power for member systems throughout the state. Buckeye Power, which owns two of the three generating units in the at Cardinal Generating Station, contracts with other Ohio electric companies to use their transmission systems to transmit power to its member electric distribution cooperatives.It has cost a few bucks to generate power, but the effort has been well worth it for Buckeye Power, an electricity generation and transmission cooperative that provides electricity to 24 distribution companies in Ohio and one in Michigan. Together they serve more than 390,000 homes and businesses in 77 of Ohio's 88 counties

Summit Energy Services is a major provider of energy management and procurement services for industrial and commercial companies, and operates in 56 countries. A consolidator in a fragmented industry, the company's offerings include market intelligence reporting, need and competitive supply analysis, contract negotiation, utility bill auditing, risk advisory planning, and energy efficiency projects. It serves the automotive, healthcare, transportation, and food industries, as well as chemical, metal, paper, and plastic manufacturing companies, and municipal and state governments and hospitality and real estate management enterprises. Summit Energy Services has more than 650 clients.

Piedmont Municipal Power Agency (Piedmont Power) generates, purchases, and transmits wholesale electricity on behalf of its 10 member municipal utilities, which distribute the power to nearly 95,000 retail customers in northwestern South Carolina. These ten utilities serve the cities of Abbeville, Clinton, Easley, Gaffney, Greer, Laurens, Newberry, Rock Hill, Union, and Westminster. Piedmont Power was created to buy an ownership interest in the Catawba Nuclear Station in York County, South Carolina, in order to secure a reliable source of electric generation for its member utilities.The agency currently owns a 25% stake in the Catawba plant.

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.

Huntsville, Alabama residents don't have to hunt far to find gas, power, and water. Government's utility City of Huntsville Electric, Natural Gas and Water Systems provides all of these resources. Known as Huntsville Utilities, the company distributes electricity to more than 156.000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the city and surrounding areas; it also provides natural gas to 46,200 customers and water services to more than 82,000 customers. Huntsville Utilities buys electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority. The utility's gas comes from Gulf of Mexico suppliers, and its water is pumped from underground aquifers and the Tennessee River.

Trojan Technologies wants to zap you. The company manufactures ultraviolet (UV) lighting systems for disinfecting wastewater and treating contaminated soil and groundwater. Trojan's wastewater treatment systems are used in about 4,000 municipalities in 50-plus countries. The company's UV light systems work by altering the DNA in microorganisms and are an alternative to traditional chlorine-based disinfection systems. Trojan also makes UV products that cleanse water used in industrial processes such as food production and electronics manufacturing. Other products include residential UV systems for drinking water. Danaher controls Trojan.

Pennichuck Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the collection, storage, treatment, and distribution of potable water for domestic, industrial, commercial, and fire protection service in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The company also provides non-regulated water management services, including monitoring, maintenance, testing, and compliance reporting services for water systems of various towns, businesses, and residential communities. In addition, Pennichuck Corporation involves in real estate management and commercialization activities. The company was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Ratchaburi Electricity Generating is a powerful force. The company, known as Ratch, is Thailand's largest independent electric utility. Subsidiary Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Company runs the power plant, which has a total capacity of about 4,500 MW of electricity. Ratchaburi Energy Company, the other major subsidiary, funds smaller power plants and other power generating operations. Ratch also owns stakes in ethanol and natural gas companies and it participates in a joint venture with SouthEast Asia Energy to run a hydro-electricity plant in Laos. Established in 2000, the company is 45% owned by the Thai government via the EGAT Public Company.

Brazos Electric is a 3,219 megawatt generation and transmission cooperative whose members' service territory extends across 68 counties from the Texas Panhandle to Houston. Organized in 1941, Brazos Electric was the first cooperative formed in the Lone Star state for the purpose of generating and supplying electrical power. Today, it is the largest generation and transmission cooperative in Texas. Brazos Electric is the wholesale power supplier for its 16 member-owner distribution cooperatives and two municipal systems.

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