Southern Water Services provides water to about 1 million households in South East England. In addition, Southern Water provides wastewater services to about 2 million households. The company has 90 water treatment works, 150 water supply booster stations, and another 370 wastewater treatment works. It maintains a network of some 13,600 km of water mains. The utility also recycles sewerage sludge for use in agriculture. Its area of operation includes Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. Southern Water is owned by Greensands Investments Limited, which is owned by infrastructure investors and pension funds.

City of Tacoma Department of Public Utilities was fated to fulfill the electric and water desires of the City of Destiny's dwellers. The municipal utility's Tacoma Power unit generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to more than 166,000 homes and businesses in Tacoma, Washington. Tacoma Water serves about 96,000 customers; the division's water supply comes from wells and the Green River Watershed. Tacoma Public Utilities also oversees Tacoma Rail, a freight-switching railroad with some 200 miles of track, and the Click! Network, a high-speed data network that uses fiber-optic cable.

Ozark Mountains need power and Ozarks Electric Cooperative aims to deliver. The member-owned not-for-profit cooperative serves more than 62,000 customers in about a dozen counties spread across northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma. Its 350 miles of line reach industrial, commercial, residential, and agricultural power users. Ozarks Electric provides its customers with energy audits and information on saving energy as well as energy efficient water heaters and surge protectors. It is a member of Touchstone Energy, a national alliance of electric cooperatives in nearly 40 states. The coop was formed in 1938.

Southwestern Electric Power Company Company Profile Southwestern Electric Power cuts a wide, welcome swath through the southwestern US to help beat the sweltering heat. The utility, founded in 1912, serves some 471,000 electricity customers in portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Southwestern Electric Power operates 20,450 miles of transmission and distribution lines. Southwestern Electric Power also has interests in fossil-fueled power plants that give it a generating capacity of 4,850 MW, and it sells power to wholesale customers. American Electric Power Company acquired the company in 2000.

The lights are big and bright deep in the heart of the Lone Star State thanks to AEP Texas Central (TCC). The utility, formerly named Central Power and Light, provides regulated electric utility services to 766.000 customers in its 100,000 sq. ml. service territory in south and west Texas. TCC operates more than 29,600 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas; its transmission assets are managed by ERCOT. In addition to distributing power, AEP Texas also reads electric meters. maintains and repairs power lines, and takes care of connections and disconnections.

Companhia de Transmissao de Energia Eletrica Paulista is a true power broker. The company, known as both CTEEP and Transmissao Paulista, delivers power to the state of Sao Paulo. Its 12,140 kilometers of power lines and 100 substations transmit 30% of the electricity consumed in Brazil. Transmissao Paulista also participates in research and development projects with other utilities as well as universities and research centers. The company, which is part of Latin American power player Grupo Empresarial ISA, was formed in 1999 after the restructuring of Brazilian electric utilities that split power generation, transmission, and distribution into separate companies.

Veolia Environnement holds water -- as well as waste management, energy, and transportation -- operations. The company's Veolia Eau unit, which provides water and wastewater services to more than 80 million people in more than 60 countries, is the world's largest water company, ahead of SUEZ Environnement. Veolia Environmental Services, one of the world's leading waste management companies, serves more than 70 million people a year. Majority-owned energy unit Dalkia (Veolia Energy Services) operates global cogeneration facilities and heating and cooling systems, and Veolia Transport (formerly Connex) is a top European provider of bus, light-rail, and rail transport and operates in about 30 countries.

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association supplies wholesale electricity to 44 rural distribution utilities that serve about 1.5 million customers (more than 599,300 meters) in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming (New Mexico was a late addition to the association's service region). The member-owned cooperative has a generating capacity of 3,840 MW from its interests primarily in fossil-fueled power plants, and it operates 5,270 miles of transmission lines. Tri-State Generation and Transmission also purchases power and sells its excess supply to other utilities.

These electric cooperatives serve more than 750,000 residents, businesses, industries and farms in a 15,000 sq. ml. service area. It operates four electric power plants and a 1,450-mile trasmission system, and maintains the Tuttle Creek Reservoir in Southwest Indiana. Hoosier Energy is part of the Touchstone Energy network of electric cooperatives.Who's yer daddy? In terms of providing electricity, for many Indianans (and some residents of Illinois) that would be Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, which provides wholesale electric power to 18 member distribution cooperatives in 48 central and southern Indiana counties, and 11 counties in southeastern Illinois.

The Dakota Electric Association delivers electricity to residents of southeastern Minnesota, the Gopher State , so they don't have to burrow underground for those long, cold winters. The member-owned utility serves more than 100,000 customers in portions of Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, and Scott counties south of Minneapolis-St. Paul. The co-op gets its power wholesale from transmission cooperative Great River Energy and distributes it over 3,720 miles of power lines, nearly two-thirds of which are buried. Dakota Electric is pushing energy efficiency programs and products to help save its customers money.

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