Ozark Mountains need power and Ozarks Electric Cooperative aims to deliver. The member-owned not-for-profit cooperative serves more than 62,000 customers in about a dozen counties spread across northwest Arkansas and northeast Oklahoma. Its 350 miles of line reach industrial, commercial, residential, and agricultural power users. Ozarks Electric provides its customers with energy audits and information on saving energy as well as energy efficient water heaters and surge protectors. It is a member of Touchstone Energy, a national alliance of electric cooperatives in nearly 40 states. The coop was formed in 1938.

Having access to power is the natural state in the Natural State, thanks to Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC), the sole wholesale power provider for 17 Arkansas electric distribution cooperatives. The company operates power plants with about 2,640 MW of generating capacity, owns transmission assets, and purchases wholesale power to meet its members' demands. Affiliate Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (AECI) provides administrative and maintenance services to the distribution companies. The distribution utilities, which serve 490,000 customers throughout more than 60% of Arkansas' area, along with AECC and AECI, operate as the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas.

AMEC Geomatrix Consultants hopes to be chosen to provide engineering, environmental, and geological consulting services. Its environmental-related services include support for air quality compliance, licensing and regulatory assistance, site assessment, and remediation. The firm also provides assessments of seismic activity and earthquake-related engineering services, cartography and other geographic information systems (GIS) design, decision analysis consulting, and natural resources optimization. AMEC Geomatrix, a unit of AMEC Earth & Environmental, conducts projects worldwide and has 19 offices located throughout the US, and one in Canada.

ReliOn relies on its ability to produce hydrogen fuel cells in order to make money. The company claims to be the world's leading developer and marketer of modular, cartridge-based, proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology. ReliOn markets a range of stationary fuel cells for emergency and back up power systems, uninterruptible power supplies, digital power needs and a range of off grid power requirements. The company has sold and installed more than 2 MW of products with private and public entities in the energy, telecommunications, and transportation segments. Investors include Avista, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, and Wall Street Technology Partners.

Sea Breeze Power, is clean energy. Formerly International Powerhouse Energy, the company is developing large-scale wind farms on the coast of British Columbia in northern Vancouver Island for power generation. It has a number of projects in various stages of development. The company is also developing underwater electricity transmission lines, as well as pursuing other renewable energy opportunities, such as hydro, energy storage, and direct current transmission projects. Key to the company's strategic planning is making the Pacific Northwest's abundant renewable energy sources available to urban areas.

Veolia Environmental Services, a part of Veolia Environnment (France), is a leader in waste management in the UK. Through its various companies, Veolia Environmental Services provides waste collection, recycling, disposal, and environmental cleansing services to the public and private sectors. It operates a network of landfill sites, material recycling facilities, transfer stations, civic amenity sites, and Energy from Waste incineration plants. The company serves more than 16 million customers in more than 100 Local Authorities and has been active in the UK since 1990.

Shell International Renewables (doing business as Shell Renewables) may be able to turn them into fuel to power homes and vehicles. The company oversees many of the parent Royal Dutch Shell's operations in alternative fuels, was formed in 1997 to commercially explore the global possibilities of new low-carbon power systems. Shell Renewables markets and distributes alternative energies from the sun, the wind, hydrogen (technically an energy carrier rather than energy source), and bio-fuels worldwide. It is researching hydrogen created from natural gas and bio-fuels, made of everything from corn to algae, to replace gasoline in cars.

Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County, Washington, probably used up its initial budget before it could hire a team of branding and identity consultants. But a dour name does not stop the power provider (commonly referred to as Grant County PUD) from operating two hydroelectric power plants on the Columbia River (2,000 MW of generating capacity) and distributing electricity to the 40,000 residents of Washington's Grant County. The district, which was formed in 1938 and went into operation in 1942, also sells power to twelve Pacific Northwest utilities and is developing a residential fiber-optic data network.

Active Power, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets critical power quality solutions. It provides various products that deliver continuous clean power, and protects customers from voltage fluctuations, such as surges and sags, and frequency fluctuations, as well as offer temporary power to bridge the gap between a power outage and the restoration of utility power. The company offers CleanSource UPS, a battery free uninterruptible power supply system (UPS) that integrates UPS electronics and flywheel energy storage system into one compact cabinet. Active Power, Inc. also provides CleanSource DC, which is a battery-free replacement option for lead-acid batteries for use in bridging power; CoolAir DC; CoolAir UPS; and GenSTART, which is a battery-free, starting modular system. It offers continuous power systems that comprise UPS system, switchgear, and a generator under the PowerHouse brand name. Active Power, Inc. also provides services, including engineering, installation, start-up, monitoring, and repair for its products. The company serves data centers, manufacturing, technology, broadcast and communications, financial, utilities, healthcare, government, and airport industries. It sells its products through direct sales employees, value added resellers, manufacturers representatives, distributors, strategic IT partners, and original equipment manufacturer partners in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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.

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