New Braunfels Utilities is its namesake city's most powerful entity. The utility provides electric, water, and sewage services to New Braunfels, Texas, and nearby communities. Its electric system serves more than 28,200 customers via 700 miles of overhead and underground distribution lines. New Braunfels Utilities' water and sewer systems serve more than 21,600 water and almost 20,000 wastewater customers. The water system operates six groundwater wells over the Edwards Aquifer, as well as an 8 million gallon per day surface water plant on the Guadalupe River. New Braunfels Utilities' three wastewater treatment plants have a total daily capacity of 8.4 million gallons.

Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), a subdivision of the Nebraska state government, OPPD generates and distributes electricity to residents and businesses in 13 counties in southeastern Nebraska. It operates and maintains its facilities without tax revenues and raises money for major construction through bonds. OPPD serves more than 340,000 customers in an area covering 5,000 sq. mi. The utility has a generating capacity of more than 3,220 MW, which is powered by nuclear, coal, oil, and natural gas sources. It sells wholesale power to other utilities and offers energy consulting and management services.

Origin Energy focuses on integrating businesses within the energy industry, primarily in gas production, power generation, and energy retailing in Australia and New Zealand (through Contact Energy). It also invests in renewable energy technologies. The company is the #2 retailer of natural gas, electricity, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Australia with some 2 million customers (mostly in Victoria). Origin explores for and produces gas and oil in Australia and New Zealand and supplies markets in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. The company focuses on the Bass and Otway Basins offshore Victoria, the Perth Basin in Western Australia, Queensland's coal seam gas areas, and New Zealand's Taranaki Basin.

Clyde Bergemman EEC designs and supplies custom-engineered air-pollution control systems and offers related services. Its systems scrub out dust and acid gases from plant emissions to meet strict regulations. Customers include power generators and paper and pulp producers. Its products include ammonia-on-demand systems (which control emissions from power generators), electrostatic precipitators, and fabric filtration systems. The company is a unit of energy services provider Clyde Bergemman Power Group.

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.

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.

Sembcorp Industries can help your ship keep its shape or sell you electricity, among other things. Its 62%-held Sembcorp Marine subsidiary, the #2 offshore oil rig maker in the world, specializes in marine and offshore engineering services such as ship building and conversion, repair, and rig building. Sembcorp Utilities (also known as SembUtilities) is a leading retailer of electricity in Singapore; it also provides utility services and water management services (wastewater, reclaimed water, desalination, water for industrial use). Singapore's government (through investment company Temasek Holdings) controls 49% of Sembcorp Industries, which serves clients primarily in the Asia/Pacific region and in Europe.

GeoSyntec Consultants provides services such as environmental management, geotechnical engineering, groundwater assessment and remediation, pollution prevention, and surface water management. The company operates from more than 30 offices, primarily in the US but also in Canada, Malaysia, and the UK. Its clients include Aerojet-General, AstraZeneca, Chevron, Delta Air Lines, FMC Corp., Georgia Power, Kimberly-Clark, Lockheed Martin, Pharmacia & Upjohn, and Shell Oil. Expanding its services in the water and natural resources segment, in 2010 Geosyntec acquired Rainwater Recovery, which focuses on rainwater harvesting technology.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County, Washington (or Chelan County PUD) provides power and water to residents of the county located in the middle of the Evergreen State. The utility operates three hydroelectric-generation facilities on or near the Columbia River that have a combined capacity of about 2,000 MW. About 30% of the district's electricity goes to its more than 47,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers; the rest is sold wholesale to other utilities operating in the northwestern US. Chelan County PUD also provides water and wastewater services to about 5,700 customers.

Southwest Gas Corporation engages in the purchase, distribution, and transportation of natural gas in portions of Arizona, Nevada, and California. As of December 31, 2009, Southwest Gas Corporation purchased and distributed, or transported natural gas to approximately 1,824,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. It also operates as an underground piping contractor that provides utility companies with trenching and installation, replacement, and maintenance services for energy distribution systems. Southwest Gas Corporation was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.