Anaheim Public Utilities,the municipal utility's power division serves residential, industrial, and commercial customers and has interests in fossil-fueled, nuclear, and alternative generation facilities. Its water division gets its supply from its water well system and from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Anaheim Public Utilities is the only municipal water and electric utility in Orange County.

Unitil Corporation company serves about 100,500 electric customers and 70,000 natural gas customers. Unitil Energy Systems provides regulated electric utility services to 72,600 customers in New Hampshire, and subsidiary Fitchburg Gas and Electric has some 27,900 power and 15,120 natural gas customers in Massachusetts. Unitil's utility units provide retail supply services to customers who don't choose to purchase energy from a third-party marketer. Indirect subsidiary, Usource LLC, provides energy brokerage service to large energy users throughout the Northeast seeking competitive power or natural gas supplies.

Black Hills Power has been delivering energy for over 125 years. It was formed through the consolidation of several smaller electric suppliers in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. Black Hills Power is an investor-owned utility and is part of the Black Hills Corporation family. The utility serves 63,500 customers in 20 communities located in Western South Dakota, Northern Wyoming, and Southeastern Montana.Our customers use 1,501,805,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity at an average price of $0.0714 per kWh. Cost containment efforts and customer load growth have provided our customers with stable residential electricity costs and our commercial electricity costs that are declining in real terms, and have remained stable for the last 11 years.

Artesian Resources Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides water, wastewater, and engineering services on the Delmarva Peninsula. It distributes and sells water to residential, commercial, industrial, governmental, municipal, and utility customers in the states of Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The company also provides water for public and private fire protection to customers in its service territories. In addition, it designs and builds water and wastewater infrastructure; and provides contract water, wastewater, and engineering services. As of December 31, 2009, the company had approximately 76,900 metered customers and 730 wastewater customers, and served a population of approximately 276,000. It served customers through approximately 1,124 miles of transmission and distribution mains. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Newark, Delaware.

Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative keeps the power flowing to the residences and businesses of more than 200,360 member-owners in five counties along the central Florida Gulf Coast. The power distribution utility, which was originally set up in 1941, receives wholesale generation and transmission services from the Seminole Electric Cooperative. Withlacoochee River Electric, a non-profit organization, returns any funds remaining at the end of each year to its membership. The cooperative has returned more than $190 million to its member-owners.

Ferrostaal Incorporated is betting on the sun. The company is a subsidiary of the German industrial and heavy construction conglomerate Ferrostaal AG and provides its parent's alternative energy business in North America. It operates, with Solar Millennium, a joint venture called Solar Trust of America (STA) that concentrates on solar power generation. The International Petroleum Investment Company of Abu Dhabi bought a majority stake in Ferrostaal from MAN SE in 2009 and dropped the former parent company's brand from what had been called MAN Ferrostaal.

TransAlta has transformed itself from one of Canada's largest electric utilities into a global independent power producer with assets in Australia, Canada, and the US. The company has about about 8,990 MW of operational generating capacity. It trades and markets electricity and gas in Canada and the US. Most of TransAlta's generating capacity is coal-fired; the rest comes from gas-fired, hydroelectric, and alternative-energy plants. TransAlta has sold its regulated distribution and transmission businesses to focus on power generation and marketing, primarily to industrial and wholesale customers. The company has more than 80 power plants in Australia, Canada, and the US.

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.

Avista Utilities' vista is the Pacific Northwest and the Intermountain West. The utility, a subsidiary of integrated production, transmission, and distribution powerhouse Avista Corporation, provides regulated electricity and natural gas services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Avista Utilities provides power and gas services to about 673,000 customers (357,000 electric, and 316,000 gas). It serves power customers with a mix of hydro, natural gas, coal, and biomass generation (with a total capacity of 1,776 MW in 2009), and serves gas customers through purchased wholesale gas supply. The company sells excess electricity to wholesale customers.

Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation (SLEMCO) is no slowpoke when it comes to serving more than 93,400 power customers in eight Louisiana parishes. SLEMCO provides regulated power transmission and distribution services via 9,000 miles of power lines to its residential, commercial, and industrial members. It also provides energy conservation and street and security lighting services. SLEMCO extended assistance to help repair the badly damaged infrastructure in parishes from New Orleans to the Mississippi border following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

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