Privatization is the light at the end of the tunnel for Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo, one of Brazil's largest power generators. Known as CESP, the company is the largest generator of electricity used in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. CESP's six hydroelectric facilities (57 generation units) have a capacity of more than 7,456 MW. It gets most of its revenues from distribution utilities. Sao Paulo state government-controlled CESP previously had 22 power plants, but it spun off two generating companies and a transmission company in 1999. The slimmer CESP was targeted for auction, but the state government postponed the sale. CESP is restructuring its debt and is focusing on operational efficiency.

New Hampshire warm in winter, but New Hampshire Electric Cooperative will. The utility provides electricity to about 80,000 residential and business customers (who are also member-owners of the cooperative) in 115 New Hampshire towns and cities. The enterprise operates 5,400 miles of distribution lines, and is seeking to become a complete energy solutions organization, offering energy saving options such as equipment retrofits at local schools and selling energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs. Most of New Hampshire Electric Cooperative's revenues comes from residential customers, and the balance form small businesses.

Staying true to its more-than-a-century-old watery origins, Turlock Irrigation District (TID) provides irrigation services to almost 6,000 farmers in its service area (150,000 acres of farmland). The company also provides electric generation, transmission, and distribution services to more than 98,000 retail customers in and around Turlock, California, and it sells power to wholesale customers. TID became a generator and distributor of electricity in 1923. The district provides electric service to its customer base in a 662-sq.-ml. service area encompassing portions of Merced, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne counties.

Degremont designs, builds, and operates water treatment plants worldwide to purify water and treat wastewater. The company has operations in more than 70 countries, and its plants provide more than 1 billion people with potable water. It is a specialist in designing and constructing facilities for seawater desalination by the means of reverse osmosis. It also designs and builds sludge treatment facilities. In the US the group operates through subsidiary Infilco Degremont. United Water formed a joint venture with Infilco Degrement in 2009 to operate a Water Environmental Research Center in Richmond,Virginia.

NORESCO provides utility customers in the US with infrastructure development, design/build services, commissioning strategies, financing, and client-centered asset management services. The company develops and implements build/own/operate distributed generation, cogeneration, or combined heat and power projects; arranges, on a consulting basis, commodity electricity or gas supply; and provides firm contracting of energy supply. It also holds interests in independent power plants. Global leader in HVAC products and systems Carrier, a unit of UTC, owns NORESCO.

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.

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.

Alabamans and Floridians come together in PowerSouth Energy Cooperative (formerly Alabama Electric Cooperative), which provides wholesale power services to its member-owners (20 cooperative and municipal distribution utilities and one industrial company). Its distribution members provide electric services to almost 419,000 meters in central and southern Alabama (39 counties) and western Florida (10 counties). PowerSouth Energy Cooperative operates a 2,200-mile power transmission system and has more than 1,600 MW of generating capacity from interests in fossil-fueled and hydroelectric power plants.

South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G) is a regulated utility with 659,000 electricity and 313,000 natural gas customers in the Palmetto State. The utility, a subsidiary of SCANA, owns 24,500 miles of power distribution lines and more than 15,700 miles of gas transmission mains; it also operates 17 fossil-fueled, nuclear, and hydroelectric power generation facilities with 5,695 MW of capacity. Its service area covers 23,000 sq. mls.SCE&G purchases additional power from other independent generators and utility companies, including SCANA-owned affiliate South Carolina Generating, and it sells wholesale power to other utilities and marketers.

NOVEC is no novice when it comes to electricity distribution. Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) is a member-owned utility that serves more than 130,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and government customers in northern Virginia. NOVEC receives its power supply primarily from generation and transmission utility Old Dominion Electric Cooperative. The company also markets natural gas and long-distance phone services to retail customers in Virginia and Maryland through its NOVEC Energy Solutions unit. Subsidiary NOVEC Solutions sells energy appliances. NOVEC was formed in 1983 through the merger of Prince William Electric Cooperative and Tri-County Electric Cooperative.

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