Marsulex is scrubbing up smokestacks in North America. The company provides outsourced air-quality regulation compliance services to the oil refinery and power generation industries. Among Marsulex's emission-control products are spent acid regeneration and sulphate scrubbing systems; the firm also processes and sells sulphur by-products. Customers in Marsulex's oil-refinery segment include Shell, Petro-Canada, BP, and Sunoco. The company provides services to power-generation customers worldwide. Marsulex operates seven plants in Canada and ten in the US, including one in Southern California. In 2009 investment firm Harrowston Holding acquired control of Marsulex.

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.

Global Environmental Energy Corporation wants to improve China and other countries by turning their unwanted waste into energy. It also searches for oil and gas and has interests in clean coal technology. The company's alternative power generation technology uses waste from industrial, municipal, and agricultural facilities to produce electricity for its clients. Subsidiary Biosphere Development Corp has sold nine Biosphere Process Systems in China and one in Lebanon. Subsidiary Sahara Petroleum Exploration explores for oil in North Africa but has been inactive since 2007.

Otter Tail covers a swath of businesses, from electric services and food-ingredient processing to manufacturing equipment, plastics, and health services. Its electric utility and energy activities are subsidiaries of Otter Tail, and its subsidiary Varistar holds Otter Tail's other interests. The electric utility has been the company's core effort since Otter Tail's start in 1907; it keeps the lights on for 129,000-plus residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Otter Tail also makes PVC pipes, wind towers, metal parts, and processes potato flakes, as well as offers diagnostic medical equipment, and construction and trucking services.

Power and Texas come together at the Texas Municipal Power Agency, which provides electricity generation and transmission services to four municipal utilities (Bryan, Denton, Garland, and Greenville). The joint powers agency, which was created in 1975 by its member cities, owns and operates the 462-MW Gibbons Creek power plant and related transmission assets. In the wake of the oil embargo the early 1970s, the Texas Legislature created joint powers agencies that could perform all the duties of utilities except sell power to non-members. Bryan, Denton, Garland, and Greenville then formed the Texas Municipal Power Agency and harnessed locally available lignite to fuel a power generation plant.

WPPI Energy (formerly Wisconsin Public Power) generates, purchases, and supplies wholesale electricity to 51 municipal distribution utilities, which in turn serve more than 192,000 homes and businesses in Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and Iowa. Founded as a political subdivision of the State of Wisconsin, the utility was formed by its member-owners (the municipalities) in 1980. WPPI Energy has interests in power plants that give it a capacity of more than 1,120 MW. It also engages in wholesale energy transactions with other regional utilities and energy marketers and is a major advocate of green energy power resources.

Modesty notwithstanding, Modesto Irrigation District (MID) does much more than irrigate 59,000 acres of land in the Modesto, California area. The state-owned utility also generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to more than 91,270 residential and about 12,700 commercial and industrial customers; markets wholesale power; and treats and provides drinking water to the city of Modesto for distribution purposes. The company is a not-for-profit organization formed by the government of Stanislaus County in 1887 to provide irrigation services in the Modesto region.

South East Water distributes water to some 2.1 million people in England's South East region. The company provides 565 million liters of drinking water daily. Its service territory includes Berkshire, Hampshire, Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, and its Dynamco unit provides engineering services for water companies. The company offers customers its E-metering service, an online application enabling customers to track and view the status of their water consumption; it also conducts water efficiency audits for its customers. In 2006 South East Water, formerly owned by Australia's Macquarie Bank, was bought by Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund, and Utilities Trust of Australia. It acquired Mid Kent Water in 2007.

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.

Florida Municipal Power Agency doesn't believe in holding on to power. The non-profit public agency generates and supplies electric power to 30 county or municipally owned distribution utilities, which in turn serve 2 million Florida residents and businesses. Each of the distribution utilities appoints one representative to Florida Municipal Power Agency's board of directors, which governs the agency's activities. The Agency is authorized to undertake joint projects for its members and to issue tax-exempt bonds to finance the costs of such projects. It is also empowered to implement a pooled financing program for utility-related projects.

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