Terranext focuses its earthbound geotechnical engineering expertise on the next project, as well as the one it is currently working on. An affiliate of engineering group BE&K, Terranext provides environmental engineering and consulting services to industrial, commercial, and government customers through half a dozen offices (in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, and New Jersey). The company's services include air quality management, cultural, and natural resource conservation, energy reduction engineering, pollution prevention, water management, and site investigation and remediation. Since 1985 the woman-owned business has conducted more than 3,000 environmental projects.

Zephyr Environmental provides consulting, training, and data systems services relating to such areas as air quality, water quality, business protection programs, environmental health and safety, risk management, waste management, and regulatory tracking. The company has undertaken projects for clients in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia/Pacific region. Customers have included oil and gas companies, as well as companies in the cement manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor industries. Zephyr Environmental operates from offices in Texas (Austin and Houston) and in Maryland. It also maintains an office in Dubai.

Great River Energy powers up cooperatives along the Great River Road. The utility provides wholesale electricity to more than 1.7 million people (at more than 639,000 homes, businesses, and farms) through 28 distribution cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. It operates more than 4,500 miles of transmission lines and has more than 2,800 MW of capacity from fossil-fueled, hydroelectric, and renewable power generation facilities. The company also owns or partially owns more than 100 transmission substations. Great River Energy is the #2 electric utility in Minnesota, in terms of generating capacity, and one of the top five largest generation and transmission cooperatives in the US (based on assets).

Minnesota Power can keep both Vikings and Packers warm. The utility, an operating unit of ALLETE, provides electricity to about 144,000 customers in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin, as well as wholesale electricity to 16 municipal systems. Large industrial customers include Boise White Paper (a subsidiary of Boise Cascade) and Hibbing Taconite (a joint venture owned by ArcelorMittal, Cliffs, and US Steel). Its largest purchasing contract is with the Square Butte Electric Co-op in North Dakota -- Minnesota Power gets half of Square Butte's output -- but the company is attempting to transition from Square Butte's traditionally coal-generated energy to wind power.

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.

ThermoEnergy Corporation, a clean technologies company, develops municipal and industrial wastewater treatment systems, and carbon reducing clean energy technologies worldwide. The company's technologies include Zero Emission Boiler system, which converts fossil fuels and biomass into electricity without producing air emissions, as well as removes and captures carbon dioxide in liquid form for sequestration or beneficial reuse; and Controlled Atmosphere Separation Technology (CAST), R-CAST, and proprietary water technologies. Its technologies also comprise Ammonia Recovery Process technology that captures ammonia from dilute waste streams and converts it into ammonium sulfate; ThermoFuel Process, a renewable energy process, which converts digested or waste activated sewage sludge into an energy fuel that could be converted into electricity for use on-site or sold as a feedstock to third party industrial clients; and Enhanced Biogas Production process, which retrofits existing wastewater treatment plants to recover excess ammonia from the digesters. The company's wastewater treatment systems are used in the aerospace, food and beverage processing, metal finishing, pulp and paper, petrochemical, refining, microchip and circuit board manufacturing, heavy manufacturing, and municipal wastewater applications. Thermoenergy Corporation has a strategic alliance with Contego Systems LLC to provide solutions for airplane deicing. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Beacon Power Corporation designs, develops, and commercializes advanced products and services to support stable and reliable electricity grid operation in North America. The company primarily focuses on commercializing its patented flywheel energy storage technology for storing and transmitting kinetic energy. It provides Smart Energy Matrix, a non-polluting, megawatt-level, and utility-grade flywheel-based energy storage system that provides sustainable frequency regulation services. The company’s energy storage and power conversion solutions provide electric power for the utility, renewable energy, and distributed generation markets. Beacon Power Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.

UniSource Energy has more than one source of income, but it gets most of its revenues from its energy utilities. The company's Tucson Electric Power unit generates and distributes electricity to almost 402,000 customers in southeastern Arizona. The unit has about 2,230 MW of generating capacity. Subsidiary UniSource Energy Services provides electricity (through UNS Electric Services) to 90,000 customers and natural gas (through UNS Gas) to 146,000 customers in 30 communities in northern and southern areas of the state. UniSource's Millennium Energy Holdings unit invests in unregulated energy and emerging technology companies.

Jackson Energy Authority is a public utility created under a private act passed by the Tennessee Legislature. Our assets and operations are paid for through utility rates, not tax money. A five-member Board of Directors, appointed by Jackson’s Mayor and City Council, governs Jackson Energy Authority.Jackson Energy Authority is one of few public utilities in the United States offering customers all major utility services from one company. We provide reliable electric, gas, propane, water, wastewater, and broadband services. We serve about 40,000 residences, businesses and industry in Jackson, TN and parts of Madison County. We also supply propane to customers not on our natural gas system.

Southern Nuclear Operating company, a subsidiary of Southern Company since 1990, operates six nuclear power units at three plant locations, which combined, provide about 20% of the electricity used in Alabama and Georgia. Southern Nuclear's Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant began commercial operation in 1977. The Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant and the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant are jointly owned by Southern Company's Georgia Power (50%), Oglethorpe Power (30%), the Municipal Electrical Authority of Georgia (18%), and the city of Dalton.

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