Energy and Power Solutions (EPS) would like to help. The start up company, which promises up to a 25% energy savings using its methods, makes most of its money building on-site clean energy power plants. It also sells electrical and thermal power and operates power plants on behalf of its customers. But EPS touts its xChange Point energy monitoring software as the growth engine of the future. The software tracks energy use at the device, plant, and enterprise level in real time; EPS analysts use the data to recommend energy saving changes. The company, which filed to go public in 2010, has four customers using its products at more than 60 locations.

Mesa Power Group, it takes an oil tycoon from Texas to raise the profile of wind energy in North America. Controlled by veteran oilman and renewable energy proponent T. Boone Pickens, who gained national attention with the Pickens Plan, a campaign aimed at reducing US dependence on foreign oil, the company is engaged in developing and investing in wind power projects. It acquires these projects and completes development on them through a joint venture with GE called the American Wind Alliance (AWA). It typically targets projects in Canada and the US that have secured land control, access to transmission lines, and minimum capacity of 100 megawatts.

PNM Resources, Inc. company's primary utility unit, Public Service Company of New Mexico, distributes electricity to nearly 500,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the state. PNM Resources operates power plants with more than 2,700 MW of generating capacity and markets energy to wholesale customers in the western US. Its Texas-New Mexico Power Company (TNMP) unit provides transmission and distribution services at regulated rates to about retail electricity providers that, in turn, provide retail electric service to 230,000 end users. Subsidiary First Choice Power is a retail electric provider operating in Texas and serving 234,000 customers.

Salamander Energy spends its day exploring and producing oil and gas. The company produces about 8,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day; Salamander Energy's proved and probable reserves total about 56 million barrels of oil equivalent. Established in 2005, the company focuses its exploration efforts in regions in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Salamander Energy operates from six offices in the UK and Asia. Salamander Energy plans to expand both organically and through acquisitions.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Cowlitz County, Washington (or Cowlitz County Public Utility District), a Depression era institution that provides electric utility services to 47,400 customers (including 42,400 residential customers and 5,200 commercial clients) in its service territory. The municipal utility also serves more than 3,800 Longview-Kelso area water utility customers. Like 27 other PUDs in Washington state, Cowlitz County Public Utility District has the authority to offer electric, water, wastewater, and wholesale telecommunication service.

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) digs doling out energy in sandy Southern California. The company is a regulated utility that serves 1.4 million electricity customers and more than 840,000 natural gas customers in San Diego County and a portion of southern Orange County. The electric utility segment owns about 22,200 miles of power distribution lines, which serve about 25 communities; its 1,870 miles of transmission lines are managed by the California Independent System Operator. SDG&E also has limited power generation operations (it owns or contracts more than 5,500 MW of generating capacity). The gas utility operates almost 170 miles of transmission pipelines and about 8,420 miles of distribution mains.

Reliance Infrastructure, formerly Reliance Energy, transmits and distributes electricity across India. The company's service territory covers an area exceeding a 124,300 square kilometers and includes the major cities of Delhi and Mumbai. Reliance Infrastructure operates power plants that generate more than 940 MW of capacity. Part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Reliance Infrastructure delivers more than 36 billion units of electricity to more than 30 million consumers. The company is also a major player in India's heavy construction market, and is engaged in constructing roads and airports, and developing urban infrastructure. It also has interests in real estate and retail hospitality.

Natural gas supply is as natural as country and western to some Arkansans, thanks to Arkansas Western Gas. A subsidiary of Colorado-based natural gas distribution firm SourceGas, the company distributes natural gas to approximately 152,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in more than 90 cities and towns in northern Arkansas. Arkansas Western Gas, which operates through six regional offices across its services area also provides gas transportation services to industrial, end-use, and off-system customers, and it operates a gas storage facility.

WGL Holdings, Inc. engages in the delivery and sale of natural gas, and provides energy-related products and services in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. WGL Holdings, Inc. operates through three segments: Regulated Utility, Retail Energy-Marketing, and Design-Build Energy Systems. The Regulated Utility segment delivers natural gas to retail customers, as well as sells natural gas to customers who have not elected to purchase natural gas from unregulated third-party marketers. The Retail Energy-Marketing segment sells natural gas and electricity directly to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. As of September 30, 2009, it served approximately 151,000 residential, commercial, and industrial natural gas customers, and 113,000 electricity customers. The Design-Build Energy Systems segment focuses on upgrading the mechanical, electrical, water, and energy-related systems of government and commercial facilities by implementing traditional, as well as alternative energy technologies. WGL Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1848 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Targa Resources Corp., through its general and limited partner interests in Targa Resources Partners LP, provides midstream natural gas and natural gas liquid (NGL) services in the United States. It engages in gathering, compressing, treating, processing, and selling natural gas; and storing, fractionating, treating, transporting, and selling NGLs and NGL products. The company owns and operates approximately 11,169 miles of natural gas pipelines and approximately 800 miles of NGL pipelines, with natural gas gathering systems covering approximately 13,500 square miles and 21 natural gas processing plants with access to natural gas supplies in the Permian Basin, the Fort Worth Basin, the onshore region of the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico. It sells its products to petrochemical manufacturers, refineries, multi-state retailers, and independent retailers. Targa Resources Corp. was founded in 2004 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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