Aquilex speaks softly and carries a big wrench. Through its operating subsidiaries, Aquilex Corporation provides maintenance, repair services and technical support to heavy industry worldwide. Customers include power generation facilities and other industrial plants, including cement, chemical, petrochemical, oil and natural gas processing, pulp and paper, metal refining, and steel manufacturing operations. The company was controlled by private equity firm Harvest Partners (which bought the company from First Reserve in 2007). In 2008 Harvest Partners sold the company to Teachers' Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (WCNOC) helps to sate the energy hunger of the US public. The nuclear plant operator is in charge of the Wolf Creek Generating Station in Kansas, which houses a four-loop pressurized water reactor that generates about 1,200 MW of electricity (enough to power some 800,000 homes). WCNOC is joint venture between Westar Energy, which owns a 47% stake, Great Plains Energy (which through subsidiary Kansas City Power & Light owns 47%), and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, 6%. Its job description is to operate, maintain, repair, and eventually decommission the Wolf Creek Generating Station.

Lee County Electric Cooperative's service territory includes Cape Coral, North Fort Myers, Marco Island, Sanibel and Captiva Islands, Pine Island, Everglades City, Immokalee, and parts of Lehigh Acres. The member-owned electric utility operates more than 6,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines. Tampa-based Seminole Electric Cooperative serves as LCEC's wholesale power supplier.

Organic Resource Management (formerly National Challenge Systems) has an organic approach to the disposal of waste material across Canada. Providing non-hazardous and organic waste disposal services, Organic Resource Management's services include cleaning catch basins, drains, grease-traps, and sewers; food-waste recycling; and raw material and product destruction. Organic Resource Management serves more than 8,000 commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential customers in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec. In 2008 it sold the non-core assets of non-hazardous liquid waste subsidiary A&A Anderson Tank Services to McRae's Environmental Services.

Tacoma Power is the destiny of the citizens of the City of Destiny to get their power from Tacoma Power, which provides electric power services to more than 162,580 customers in Tacoma, Washington and surrounding areas. The utility, a division of Tacoma Public Utilities, one of the oldest and largest municipally owned utilities in the US, operates four hydroelectric power plants and approximately 2,275 miles of transmission and distribution lines. In addition, Tacoma Power offers energy efficiency products and services, manages fish hatcheries and recreational facilities, and operates the Click! Network, a high-speed telecommunications network (855 miles of cable).

Xcel Energy has accelerated its energy engine into utility markets across the US. The utility holding company distributes electricity to 3.4 million customers and natural gas to 1.9 million in eight states; Colorado and Minnesota account for the majority of its customers. Its regulated utilities -- Northern States Power, Public Service Company of Colorado, and Southwestern Public Service -- have more than 20,500 MW of primarily fossil-fueled generating capacity. Xcel also has 35,200 miles of natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines. Pushing green energy sources, in 2008 Xcel announced that it would develop solar-generated power plants in Colorado as part of its green energy initiative.

Exelon Corporation company distributes electricity to 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois (including Chicago) and southeastern Pennsylvania (including Philadelphia) through subsidiaries Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and PECO Energy. PECO also distributes natural gas to 485,000 customers. Subsidiary Exelon Generation holds the company's power plants, whose production capacity is just about 25,000 MW. About two-thirds of Generation's power is nuclear. Exelon Power Team is a top wholesale energy marketer, and Exelon Energy markets retail power and offers other energy-related services.

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.

Suburban Propane Partners, L.P., through its subsidiaries, engages in the retail marketing and distribution of propane, fuel oil, and refined fuels, and the marketing of natural gas and electricity in the United States. The company’s Propane segment involves in the retail distribution of propane to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers, as well as wholesale distribution to large industrial end users. Its Fuel Oil and Refined Fuels segment engages in the retail distribution of fuel oil, diesel, kerosene, and gasoline to residential and commercial customers for use primarily as a source of heat in homes and buildings. The company’s Natural Gas and Electricity segment markets natural gas and electricity to residential and commercial customers in the deregulated energy markets of New York and Pennsylvania. Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. also sells, installs, and services various whole-house heating products, air cleaners, humidifiers, hearth products, and space heaters to the customers of propane, fuel oil, natural gas, and electricity products. As of September 26, 2009, it served approximately 850,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers through approximately 300 locations in 30 states located primarily in the east and west coast regions of the United States, including Alaska. Suburban Energy Services Group LLC serves as the general partner to Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. was founded in 1945 and is based in Whippany, New Jersey.

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)

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