Deseret Power is a regional generation and transmission cooperative meeting the power requirements of its six member retail systems, and selling surplus power to municipalities, power marketers and other wholesale electric systems in five states.Beginning with a 25.1% interest in the Hunter II power plant, Deseret has grown into an integrated power producer in Utah. With corporate offices in South Jordan, Utah, Deseret owns 223 miles of transmission lines and 550 MW of generation. Deseret's primary generating resource, the Bonanza Power Plant is consistently ranked in the top environmentally clean coal fired plants in the U.S. and was the number one plant for availability in 2001 and 2002.As a cooperative, Deseret is owned by its six member systems: Bridger Valley Electric, Dixie Escalante, Flowell Electric, Garkane Energy, Moon Lake Electric, and Mt. Wheeler Power. Deseret's cooperative organization, combined with its vertical integration, positions Deseret to provide member/owners, partners and customers of all sizes competitive and stable power rates.

Global Energy is generating power outside of the box. The alternative energy company creates clean energy solutions using gasification technologies. Gasification and IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) facilities convert carbon fuel sources (including coal, petroleum coke (petcoke), and renewables) into environmentally cleaner energy sources like synthetic gas (SG) and synthetic natural gas (SNG). Through subsidiary Wabash River Energy, Global Energy owns and operates the Wabash River Plant (Indiana), one of only two IGCC facilities in the US. It also owns the Westfield Plant (Fife, Scotland) and is constructing a 540-MW IGCC facility in Lima, Ohio, expected to be operational by 2010.

Nature Group (formerly Nature Technology Solutions) provides wastewater treatment services to the oil, shipping, and offshore industries. Its technologies treat various types of industrial, marine, and oil industry waste streams, including using an environmental-friendly additive that helps remove hydrocarbons in oily wastewater. It helps operate port treatment plants in Gibraltar and Tananger, Norway, and a sewage treatment plant in Gibraltar; it is also involved in decommissioning refineries, installing treatment plants, and treating wastewater on offshore rigs.

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.

Yankee Gas Services does not ride a pony into town like a Yankee Doodle Dandy, but it does pipe a lot of natural gas to 71 central and southwest Connecticut towns and cities. With approximately 205,000 commercial, industrial, and residential customers, the company, a subsidiary of Yankee Energy System (which is itself a unit of Northeast Utilities), is the largest natural gas distributor in Connecticut. Northeast Utilities Service Company, also a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities, performs administrative and accounting duties for Yankee Gas Services.

Tractebel Engineering (formerly SUEZ-TRACTEBEL) is Belgium's top utility holding company and one of the world's top independent power producers, with operations in more than 100 countries on five continents (through Suez Energy International). As part of the family of companies that make up French energy conglomerate GDF SUEZ, Tractebel Engineering distributes electricity and natural gas; transports and stores gas; is involved in energy trading and marketing; and offers energy and industrial management, infrastructure, and engineering services. GDF SUEZ subsidiary and #1 power producer in Belgium, Electrabel, took ownership of the company in 2007.

ReliOn relies on its ability to produce hydrogen fuel cells in order to make money. The company claims to be the world's leading developer and marketer of modular, cartridge-based, proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology. ReliOn markets a range of stationary fuel cells for emergency and back up power systems, uninterruptible power supplies, digital power needs and a range of off grid power requirements. The company has sold and installed more than 2 MW of products with private and public entities in the energy, telecommunications, and transportation segments. Investors include Avista, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, and Wall Street Technology Partners.

Noble Environmental Power engages in the noble pursuit of producing power while keeping the environment clean by developing wind energy plants. It has about 730 MW of wind energy plants in operation and about 1,900 MW in the development pipeline. Noble Environmental Power has half a dozen operational plants in New York and one in Texas. The company has three more New York wind parks and one each in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Texas under development. By 2012 Noble Environmental Power hopes to have a portfolio with a capacity of more than 3,850 MW. The company is controlled by a J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC unit.

Down by the riverside there's power, and City of Riverside, California, Electric Utility (which does business as Riverside Public Utilities) distributes it to more than 105,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers and water to more than 63,000 customers in Riverside, California. The municipal electric utility has interests in power plants (partly through its membership in the Southern California Public Power Authority), and it buys and sells wholesale power. City of Riverside, California, Electric Utility also owns water wells and treatment facilities.

Detroit Edison generates and distributes electricity to 2.1 million customers in Michigan. The utility, a unit of regional power player DTE Energy, has more than 11,080 MW of generating capacity from its interests in nfossil-fueled, nuclear, and hydroelectric power plants. It operates more than 44,000 circuit miles of distribution lines and owns and operates about 680 distribution substations. Detroit Edison also sells excess power to wholesale customers and provides coal transportation services.

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