PowerVerde (formerly known as Vyrex) has abandoned its quest for a molecular fountain of youth. These days, it's only interested in power. The development-stage biotech company had been researching antioxidants to develop cures for respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases, and other conditions related to aging. Unable to continue funding its activities, however, Vyrex executed a reverse merger with PowerVerde, which has designed a power system that generates electricity with zero emissions. The system, created by the company's founders George Konrad and Fred Barker, uses solar-heated water to power an environmentally friendly motor.

GenOn Energy, Inc. operates as a generator of wholesale electricity in the United States. Its portfolio of power generation facilities include baseload, intermediate, and peaking units using coal, natural gas, and oil to generate electricity. The company owns, contracts, or operates approximately 49 power generation stations with generation capacity of 24,599 megawatts. The company was formerly known as Mirant Corporation and changed its name to GenOn Energy, Inc. on December 4, 2010. The company is based in Houston, Texas.

The Board of Public Utilities of Kansas City, Kansas (known as the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities) will help light the way. The utility provides electric transmission and distribution services to approximately 65,000 customers and water distribution services to 51,000 customers in the Kansas City metropolitan area (in Wyandotte and Johnson counties). The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities also has interests in coal, gas, and oil-fired power generation facilities. The utility is owned by the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City.

Salt River Project (SRP) provides Phoenix with two types of currents: electric and water. Electricity comes from the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, a political subdivision of the State of Arizona that has a generating capacity of about 8,100 MW and distributes power to about 934,000 homes and businesses. The district also sells excess power to wholesale customers. Water comes from the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, a private firm that delivers almost 1 million acre-feet of water per year to residents and agricultural irrigators; the association also operates dams, canals, reservoirs, and wells in its service area.

Trojan Technologies wants to zap you. The company manufactures ultraviolet (UV) lighting systems for disinfecting wastewater and treating contaminated soil and groundwater. Trojan's wastewater treatment systems are used in about 4,000 municipalities in 50-plus countries. The company's UV light systems work by altering the DNA in microorganisms and are an alternative to traditional chlorine-based disinfection systems. Trojan also makes UV products that cleanse water used in industrial processes such as food production and electronics manufacturing. Other products include residential UV systems for drinking water. Danaher controls Trojan.

Southern Pine Electric Power Association (Southern Pine EPA) delivers the consumer-owned utility cooperative that serves about 65,000 members in south central Mississippi. The cooperative provides power over more than 10,000 miles of line to some 60,400 residential meters and 4,600 commercial meters. A board of directors, elected by Southern Pine EPA membership, sets the policies and establishes the business structure of the organization, which is led on a day-to-day operational basis by a general manager. Southern Pine EPA established four district offices in 1994 to enable the cooperative to better serve its large service area.

United Water is a part of global water player SUEZ Environnement, and is one of the largest water companies in the US. The company distributes water and provides wastewater services to about 7 million people, including residential, commercial, and industrial customers. United Water provides services through a number of utility subsidiaries and through its contracts with several municipalities. The company operates almost 250 municipal water systems and owns utilities in 20 states across the country.

The lights are big and bright deep in the heart of the Lone Star State thanks to AEP Texas Central (TCC). The utility, formerly named Central Power and Light, provides regulated electric utility services to 766.000 customers in its 100,000 sq. ml. service territory in south and west Texas. TCC operates more than 29,600 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas; its transmission assets are managed by ERCOT. In addition to distributing power, AEP Texas also reads electric meters. maintains and repairs power lines, and takes care of connections and disconnections.

Ozocan can meet the ozone generator and purifier needs of its water and waste water clients. Ozocan (formerly Hankin Water Technologies) provides water-purification equipment for aquaculture, commercial aquariums, drinking-water treatment, industrial-waste treatment, and other uses. The company has also supplied ozone to laminating plants to speed up the application of polyethylene to paper. Ozone systems have been used to treat drinking water for decades, in both municipal and commercial bottling plants, and have been widely used in swimming pools since the 1950s. The company was established in 1954.

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.

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