Clearford Industries provides water and wastewater management and sewage treatment services throughout North America. For rural areas the company's patented Small Bore Sewer technology obviates the need for a septic tank by using pipes with a narrow diameter -- as opposed to larger ones used in urban systems -- to transport waste from a residence to a wastewater treatment plant. In 2008 the company sold its Brooklin Concrete division, a leading producer of septic tanks in Ontario, to Armtec Limited Partnership.

San Antonio Water System provides water and wastewater services to 344,200 customers, or about 1 million people, in the San Antonio metropolitan area (including most of the city of San Antonio, several suburban municipalities, and adjacent parts of Bexar County). The utility is owned by the City of San Antonio. SAWS was formed in 1992 through a merger of three entities: the City Water Board, the City Wastewater Department, and the Alamo Water Conservation and Reuse District.

Community Energy is working to create greener communities in the northeastern and midwestern US. Through supply agreements with alternative energy generation companies and sales agreements with electricity distribution utilities, Community Energy, a unit of industry leader IDERBROLA RENEWABLES, offers green energy solutions to major businesses and governments as well as to more than 110,000 residential and small-business customers. The company is also involved in the development of wind farms and supplies power directly to end-users. Community Energy, which operates under the NewWind Energy brand, purchases power primarily from wind-powered generation facilities; it also markets solar and hydroelectric energy.

National Power Corporation (Napocor) provides power for the nation of the Philippines. The state-owned utility builds and operates nuclear, hydroelectric, thermal, and alternative power-generating facilities and works with independent producers under a build-operate-transfer program. Its transmission network has a line length of nearly 13,000 circuit miles. With energy sales of more than 39,350 GWh per year, Napocor distributes electricity to power distributors and industrial companies. To comply with a sweeping privatization bill, the company has begun selling off its generation assets. It has also separated its transmission segment into an operating subsidiary.

United Utilities Group PLC, through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership, operation, and maintenance of water and wastewater networks in the United Kingdom and internationally. It supplies water covering a population of approximately 7 million people, and 2.9 million households and business premises; and involves in the collection and treatment of wastewater through a network of 43,419 kilometers of sewers. The company also operates electricity distribution network, and high voltage networks for businesses; and gas distribution network, as well as pipes and the equipment used to pump, condition, and store gas. In addition, United Utilities Group PLC provides consulting services and project management services; property management services; multi-utility metering operations and metering installation services; technical and management services; and asset management services. The company was formerly known as United Utilities Newco Limited and changed its name to United Utilities Group PLC in April 2008. United Utilities Group PLC was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Warrington, the United Kingdom.

Bangor Hydro-Electric (BHE) has dropped its hydro, but the company still has plenty of electricity. As part of the restructuring of the electric utility industry in the state of Maine, BHE has shed its generating facilities, including its hydroelectric projects, to focus on distribution and transmission. The regulated utility serves 117,000 customers in six counties in southeastern Maine. The company is also a member of the New England Power Pool. Bangor Hydro-Electric is a subsidiary of Canada's Emera, the parent company of electric utility Nova Scotia Power.

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.

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.

New Hampshire warm in winter, but New Hampshire Electric Cooperative will. The utility provides electricity to about 80,000 residential and business customers (who are also member-owners of the cooperative) in 115 New Hampshire towns and cities. The enterprise operates 5,400 miles of distribution lines, and is seeking to become a complete energy solutions organization, offering energy saving options such as equipment retrofits at local schools and selling energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs. Most of New Hampshire Electric Cooperative's revenues comes from residential customers, and the balance form small businesses.

California Water Service Group, through its subsidiaries, provides water utility and other related services in California, Washington, New Mexico, and Hawaii. It engages in the production, purchase, storage, treatment, testing, distribution, and sale of water for domestic, industrial, public, and irrigation uses, as well as for fire protection. The company also provides non-regulated water-related services, including the operation of water and recycled water systems; leasing communication antenna sites on its properties; meter reading and billing services; sewer and refuse billing services; lab services for water quality testing; selling surplus property; and the marketing and billing of third party insurance programs to residential customers. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 467,100 customers in 83 communities in California; 15,600 customers in the Tacoma and Olympia areas in Washington; 7,800 water and wastewater customers in the Belen, Los Lunas, and Elephant Butte areas in New Mexico; and 4,200 water and wastewater customers on the islands of Maui and Hawaii. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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