Alabama Power powers up Southern Rockers and others in the heart of Dixie. The Southern Company subsidiary provides electricity to nearly 1.4 million residential and business customers in Alabama. The utility operates more than 91,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines, and it has nuclear, hydroelectric, and fossil-fueled power plant interests that give it a generating capacity of more than 12,200 MW. Alabama Power sells wholesale power to more than 15 municipal and rural distribution utilities; it also provides steam transmission (used for heating and cooling buildings) in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and sells electric appliances (such as thermostats, ovens, and washing machines)

Calvalley Petroleum searches below the plateau for fuel for its customers. The company focuses on exploring for and producing oil and natural gas at Block 9 in the Republic of Yemen. The company, which has about 16 working wells (more than 50 have been drilled), produces some 5,000 barrels of oil each day. Its subsidiary Calvalley Petroleum (Cyprus) Ltd. is the operator of the property, which includes about 552,000 acres of land in the Sayun-Masila basin. Calvalley Petroleum has a net proved plus probable reserves of 7.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

Carbtrol doesn't care about your carbohydrate consumption; instead, the company works to protect the health of the environment. Carbtrol makes activated carbon filters for air and water treatment, along equipment used for groundwater remediation and soil vapor extraction. In addition, the company supplies treatment systems designed to allow golf courses and car washes to recycle water. Carbtrol was founded in 1983. The company's primary product in the early years was activated carbon systems. It expanded its product line to include engineered packages using air stripping, vapor extraction technologies, and ion exchange treatment.

Noble Environmental Power engages in the noble pursuit of producing power while keeping the environment clean by developing wind energy plants. It has about 730 MW of wind energy plants in operation and about 1,900 MW in the development pipeline. Noble Environmental Power has half a dozen operational plants in New York and one in Texas. The company has three more New York wind parks and one each in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Texas under development. By 2012 Noble Environmental Power hopes to have a portfolio with a capacity of more than 3,850 MW. The company is controlled by a J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC unit.

Tacoma Power is the destiny of the citizens of the City of Destiny to get their power from Tacoma Power, which provides electric power services to more than 162,580 customers in Tacoma, Washington and surrounding areas. The utility, a division of Tacoma Public Utilities, one of the oldest and largest municipally owned utilities in the US, operates four hydroelectric power plants and approximately 2,275 miles of transmission and distribution lines. In addition, Tacoma Power offers energy efficiency products and services, manages fish hatcheries and recreational facilities, and operates the Click! Network, a high-speed telecommunications network (855 miles of cable).

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.

MMC likes to be m-m-good at what it does. MMC Corporation Berhad concentrates on transport and logistics, energy and utilities, and engineering and construction. Many of its operating companies are the largest or only players in their markets. Its key components are Pelabuhan Tanjung Pelepas (shipping container port), Malakoff (power production), Johor Port (the leading multi-purpose port in Malaysia), and Gas Malaysia (sole non-industrial natural gas supplier in Malaysia). MMC is also involved in flood mitigation, traffic management, and power plant construction projects (through Zelan Construction).

Taiwan Power (Taipower) is looking to get by with a little help from its friends. With a generating capacity of more than 38,080 MW, the state-owned utility serves nearly 12 million industrial, commercial, and residential customers. Thermal sources (coal, oil, and liquefied natural gas) fuel most of Taipower's plants; nuclear energy and hydroelectric sources make up the balance. Unable to meet Taiwan's power needs on its own, the utility has opened its market to independent power producers, allowing companies to build power plants and sell to Taipower. Taipower has resumed construction on the nation's fourth nuclear plant. The Taiwan government has announced plans to privatize Taipower (it owned 97% in 2009).

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified utility company that primarily engages in regulated energy and unregulated energy businesses. The company’s Regulated Energy segment provides natural gas distribution services in Delaware, Maryland, and Florida; and electric distribution services in Florida to residential, commercial, and industrial customers, as well as offers natural gas transmission services primarily to other utilities and industrial customers in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Its Unregulated Energy segment sells natural gas to commercial and industrial customers in Florida, Delaware, and Maryland; and distributes propane in Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, southeastern Pennsylvania, and Florida.This segment also markets propane to wholesale customers, including independent oil and petrochemical companies, resellers, and propane distribution companies in the southeastern United States. As of December 31, 2009, the company distributed natural gas to approximately 118,000 customers; electricity to approximately 31,000 customers; and propane to approximately to 49,000 customers. It also operated a 384-mile interstate natural gas transmission pipeline. In addition, the company engages in non-energy operations, which include the provision of information-technology-related business services and solutions for enterprise and e-business applications in the United States and internationally. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation was founded in 1859 and is based in Dover, Delaware.

American Electric Power Company, Inc. engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power. It generates electricity using coal and lignite, natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric energy. The company distributes electric power at wholesale to other electric utility companies, rural electric co-operatives, municipalities, and other market participants, as well as to retail customers in its service areas. It also operates nonregulated wind farms and barging operations, as well as provides various energy-related services. The company operates in the states of Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. As of December 31, 2008, it owned or leased approximately 37,000 megawatts of power generation capacity. The company was founded in 1906 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

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