Southwestern Electric Power Company Company Profile Southwestern Electric Power cuts a wide, welcome swath through the southwestern US to help beat the sweltering heat. The utility, founded in 1912, serves some 471,000 electricity customers in portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Southwestern Electric Power operates 20,450 miles of transmission and distribution lines. Southwestern Electric Power also has interests in fossil-fueled power plants that give it a generating capacity of 4,850 MW, and it sells power to wholesale customers. American Electric Power Company acquired the company in 2000.

Companhia Paranaense de Energia – Copel engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity for industrial, residential, commercial, and rural customers primarily in the State of Parana, Brazil. It owns and operates 18 power plants, including 17 hydroelectric power plants and 1 thermal power plant with an installed capacity of 4,550 MW; transmission system comprising 1,913 km of transmission lines and 30 substations; and distribution system, including 180,696 km of distribution lines and 350 substations. The company serves approximately 3,671,262 consumers. It also provides telecommunication and communication services consisting of broadband Internet, private networks IP/MPLS-VPN, videoconference, and hosting services to schools, banks, supermarkets, Internet providers, industries, public bodies, stores, and fixed and mobile telephone operators. In addition, company has 6,026 km of OPGW cables, installed between the main ring and urban radials, totaling 10, 054 km and reaching 226 cities Parana. Further, it distributes piped gas. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Curitiba, Brazil.

Questar Gas provides retail natural gas-distribution service to almost 900,000 customers in Utah, southwestern Wyoming and a small portion of southeastern Idaho. Questar Gas is regulated by the Public Service Commission of Utah and the Wyoming Public Service Commission. Historically, about half of the natural gas sold to Questar Gas retail customers comes from Questar-owned supplies that are typically more-stably priced than gas purchased from other suppliers. Questar Gas is also one of the most efficient natural gas utilities in the nation. As a result, rates paid by Questar Gas customers are traditionally among the lowest in the country. A Questar Gas predecessor began serving customers in 1929. In the decades since, there has never been a major natural gas service interruption.

American Water Works Company, Inc. provides water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the United States and Canada. As of December 31, 2009, the company served approximately 16 million people with drinking water, wastewater, and other water-related services in 35 states and two Canadian provinces. It owned approximately 80 surface water treatment plants, 600 groundwater treatment plants, 1,200 groundwater wells, 50 wastewater treatment facilities, 1,200 treated water storage facilities, 1,200 pumping stations and 100 dams, and 49,000 miles of mains and collection pipes. American Water Works Company also enters into public/private partnerships, including operation and maintenance contracts; and design, build, and operate contracts for the provision of services to water and wastewater facilities for municipalities and the United States military. In addition, the company designs, builds, and operates smaller-scale water and wastewater treatment plants for real estate developers, industrial companies, and new or expanding communities; and provides services to domestic homeowners to protect against the cost of repairing broken or leaking pipes inside and outside their homes. Further, it provides granular activated carbon for water purification, and involves in the management and disposal of biosolids and wastewater by-products for municipal and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1886 and is based in Voorhees, New Jersey.

Brookfield Renewable Power (formerly Brookfield Power) produces electricity for the Americas. The power generating and marketing operations of its parent company Brookfield Asset Management operates 166 hydroelectric generating facilities in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia (a total of 32 generating stations), as well as in the US (100), and Brazil (34). Brookfield Renewable Power is also developing wind power facilities to complement its hydroelectric power activities. It operates the 189 MW capacity Prince Wind project, the largest wind farm in Canada. The company has more than 4,200 MW of installed capacity.

Pennon Group Plc South West Water subsidiary provides water and wastewater services to more than 1.6 million people (more during the summer tourism season) in England's South West region, including Devon, Cornwall, and parts of Dorset and Somerset. South West Water's Echo South West unit contracts to run customer service operations for utilities. Pennon subsidiary Viridor Waste -- one of the largest waste management businesses in the UK -- offers solid waste collection, landfill disposal, and recycling and other services.

Tata Power Company keeps society going by generating electricity. The largest private power utility in India, the company specializes in generating, transmitting, and distributing electrictity. Tata Power, which has a generation capacity of more than 2,300 mega watts, provides electricity for households, as well as textile mills, refineries, water pumping plants, and textile mills, among other facilities. The company has operations in the states of Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and Karnataka. Tata Power also provides electronic equipment and project consultancy.

Global Energy is generating power outside of the box. The alternative energy company creates clean energy solutions using gasification technologies. Gasification and IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) facilities convert carbon fuel sources (including coal, petroleum coke (petcoke), and renewables) into environmentally cleaner energy sources like synthetic gas (SG) and synthetic natural gas (SNG). Through subsidiary Wabash River Energy, Global Energy owns and operates the Wabash River Plant (Indiana), one of only two IGCC facilities in the US. It also owns the Westfield Plant (Fife, Scotland) and is constructing a 540-MW IGCC facility in Lima, Ohio, expected to be operational by 2010.

A company so nice they named it twice is doubling its efforts to deliver power. NRG Energy, a leading power producer with a generating capacity of about 24,500 MW (including 345 MW from renewable energy), is moving onward and upward. The vast majority of NRG's power plants are in North America, but it also has one in Australia and one in Germany. The company's global portfolio includes about 190 generation units at 47 power plants. It also markets natural gas, oil, and other commodities, and invests in district heating and cooling and alternative energy projects. Its retail unit, Reliant Energy, distributes power to more than 1.6 million residential, business, commercial, and industrial customers in Texas.

Emera is an emerging force in a new energy era. Subsidiary Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI) generates, transmits, and distributes more than 97% of the electricity in Nova Scotia, where it serves 486,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Most of NSPI's more than 2,290 MW generating capacity is from fossil fuel plants. Emera has electric utility operations into the US through its Maine-based Bangor Hydro-Electric, which serves about 117,000 customers. It markets wholesale energy and provides asset management services. Emera owns Brunswick Pipeline (which ships LNGs), and has a minority stake in Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (natural gas). It also has minority stakes in utilities in the Caribbean.

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