Pepco Holdings has more power than any politician in the populace of the US capital. The holding company distributes electricity and natural gas through its Potomac Electric Power (Pepco), Delmarva Power & Light, and Atlantic City Electric utilities to about 1.9 million customers in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington, DC. Nonregulated operations include independent power production, wholesale and retail energy marketing, and energy management services, through the company's Pepco Energy Services units.

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.

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, which operates as BC Hydro, distributes electricity to the 1.8 million residential and business customers. The province-owned utility owns more than 46,500 miles of transmission and distribution lines, and it operates hydroelectric and fossil-fueled power plants about 11,350 MW of generating capacity. Subsidiary Powerex markets and trades energy throughout North America. To increase efficiencies in green power production, in 2010 BC Hydro consolidated its transmission operations with those of the province-owned British Columbia Transmission. A Crown corporation owned by British Columbia, BC Hydro is regulated by British Columbia Utilities Commission.

Huntsville, Alabama residents don't have to hunt far to find gas, power, and water. Government's utility City of Huntsville Electric, Natural Gas and Water Systems provides all of these resources. Known as Huntsville Utilities, the company distributes electricity to more than 156.000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the city and surrounding areas; it also provides natural gas to 46,200 customers and water services to more than 82,000 customers. Huntsville Utilities buys electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority. The utility's gas comes from Gulf of Mexico suppliers, and its water is pumped from underground aquifers and the Tennessee River.

Allegheny Energy, Inc. owns and operates electric generation facilities, and delivers electric services to customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia. The company owns or contractually controls coal-, gas-, and oil-fired generation facilities, as well as hydro generation facilities. It operates in two segments, The Merchant Generation and The Regulated Operations. The Merchant Generation segment owns, operates, and manages electric generation facilities, as well as purchases and sells energy and energy-related commodities. This segment markets its electric generation capacity to various customers and markets, including certain of its affiliates, as well as uses both derivative and nonderivative contracts to manage its portfolio of contracts. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or contractually controlled 7,015 megawatts of generation capacity. The Regulated Operations segment operates electric public utility systems that include electricity generation, transmission, and distribution facilities. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or contractually controlled 2,741 megawatts of generation capacity. This segment served approximately 383,600 customers in northern West Virginia; approximately 483,400 customers in portions of West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia; approximately 102,000 customers in northern Virginia; and approximately 714,900 customers in southwestern, south-central, and northern Pennsylvania. The company is headquartered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

OGE Energy is the holding company for the largest electric utility in Oklahoma, but its largest revenue producer is its energy marketing and natural gas transmission unit, OGE Energy Resources. OGE owns Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E), a public utility with almost 777,000 retail and wholesale customers in Oklahoma (including Oklahoma City) and a bit of western Arkansas. OG&E owns coal- and gas-fired power plants that generate 6,420 MW of capacity. Subsidiary Enogex operates 7,900 miles of natural gas gathering and transportation pipeline. The company also provides physical, asset, financial management services through marketing unit OGE Eenergy Resources.

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative did the generation and transmission cooperative produces more than 1,400 MW of capacity at its coal and natural gas fueled generating plants, with two in Anadarko, one in Mooreland and one in Hugo. The cooperative pipes the juice over 3,500 miles of transmission lines to two-thirds of rural Oklahoma. Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, which is owned by its member distribution cooperatives, supplies 19 distribution co-ops and Altus Air Force base, which serve a combined half-million members.

Korea Electric Power Corporation, an integrated electric utility company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity; and development of electric power resources in the Republic of Korea. As of December 31, 2009, the company’s transmission system consisted of approximately 30,257 circuit kilometers of lines of 765 kilovolts and others, including high voltage direct current lines, as well as 715 substations with an installed transformer capacity of 247,786 megavolt-amperes; and distribution system included approximately 99,630 megavolt-amperes of transformer capacity and approximately 8 million units of support with a total line length of 420,258 circuit kilometers. It provides electricity primarily to industrial, commercial, residential, educational, and agricultural customers. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Show me the power. Cuivre River Electric Cooperative provides power to four eastern counties in the "Show Me" state: Lincoln, Pike, St. Charles, and Warren. The membership utility, which is one of Missouri's largest cooperatives with more than 58,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers, gets its wholesale power supply from the Associated Electric Cooperative and the Central Electric Power Cooperative. Cuivre River Propane, jointly owned and operated by Cuivre River Electric Cooperative and MFA Oil Company supplies propane to co-op members from four locations, Bowling Green, Elsberry, Troy, and Wright City.

Denali Incorporated company specializes in fiberglass-reinforced composite products used to handle hazardous or valuable fluids. The company's Containment Solutions (CSI) unit makes underground fiberglass storage tanks for the petroleum and water and wastewater industries and above-ground steel storage tanks for the petroleum and automotive industries. Denali's Fabricated Plastics unit makes makes thermoplastic assemblies for corrosion applications, such as in tanks, piping, and ductwork.

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