The utility provides electricity to 490,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers over nearly 32,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines. Idaho Power holds franchises in 71 cities in Idaho and nine in Oregon. It also owns power plant interests that give it a generating capacity of more than 3,000 MW. In addition, the company, a subsidiary of IDACORP, has a 33% stake in the Bridger Coal Company, which supplies fuel to the Jim Bridger generating plant in Wyoming.Idaho Power lights up spud farms and factories in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.

Ohio Valley Electric and its subsidiary, Indiana-Kentucky Electric, generate power in the Ohio River Valley region. The company operates two coal-fired plants with collectively about 2,400 MW of generating capacity. Ohio Valley Electric's Kyger Creek Plant at Cheshire, Ohio, and Indiana-Kentucky Electric's Clifty Creek Plant at Madison, Indiana are linked by 776 miles of transmission lines. Most of Ohio Valley Electric's power goes to its shareholders, which include American Electric Power (39%), Buckeye Power Generating, LLC (18%), and Duke Energy Ohio (9%).

Clay Electric Cooperative covers a lot of ground in Florida. The utility distributes electricity to 14 counties in the northeastern part of the state, including the suburbs of Jacksonville and Gainesville. It delivers power to its 165,000 residential, commercial, and industrial members over more than 12,800 miles of transmission lines. The consumer-owned utility offers electronic funds transfer, average billing, and a seniors payment plan to residential customers, and backup diesel power generation and special rate plans to businesses. The consumer-owned utility has a stake in Seminole Electric Cooperative, which provides generation services to Clay Electric and nine other cooperatives.

The state-owned utility has 1,480 MW of generating capacity from hydroelectric and fossil-fueled power plants and operates a 2,000-mile transmission system. Grand River Dam Authority also manages two lakes.It took the dam authority of the State of Oklahoma to create the body that would dam the Grand River. The resulting power provider, the Grand River Dam Authority, is responsible for supplying wholesale electricity to municipal and cooperative utilities and industrial customers in its service territory, which encompasses 24 counties in northeastern Oklahoma.

Bangor Hydro-Electric (BHE) has dropped its hydro, but the company still has plenty of electricity. As part of the restructuring of the electric utility industry in the state of Maine, BHE has shed its generating facilities, including its hydroelectric projects, to focus on distribution and transmission. The regulated utility serves 117,000 customers in six counties in southeastern Maine. The company is also a member of the New England Power Pool. Bangor Hydro-Electric is a subsidiary of Canada's Emera, the parent company of electric utility Nova Scotia Power.

ATCO operates worldwide in utilities, power generation, and related services. Majority-owned Canadian Utilities oversees most of the group's energy businesses, including ATCO Electric and ATCO Gas (transmission and distribution) and ATCO Power (generation). Other holdings include gas gatherer and processor ATCO Midstream, and gas transporter ATCO Pipelines. ATCO I-Tek provides IT, billing, and customer care services. ATCO Structures & Logistics manufactures modular buildings and provides logistical and noise abatement services. Utilities ATCO Electric (with nearly 207,000 customers) and ATCO Gas (with more than 1 million customers) account for the largest slice of ATCO's revenues.

Coast Electric Power Association when it comes to providing residents in three southern Mississippi counties with electricity. The utility uses a 6,400-mile distribution network to serve its more than 76,000 members (the great majority or which are residential customers) in Hancock, Pearl River, and Harrison counties. Coast offers electronic fund transfer and average monthly payment plans and rebates on energy efficient home improvements. The utility's power is generated by South Mississippi Electric Power, an association of Coast and 10 other cooperatives. It partners with Touchstone Energy Cooperatives.

Zodiac Marine and Pool (formerly Polaris Pool Systems) wants your backyard retreat to be sparkly clean, and your maritime sector to have access to the best in liferafts and inflatable boats. The swimming pool and spa maintenance division manufactures a wide range of automatic pool cleaners, automated chlorinators, and related accessories. The marine division makes inlflatable boats for recreational use and for the military, as well as a toilets, grease separators, marine incinerators, and other environmental equipment for the marine sector. Zodiac Marine and Pool, a Carlyle Group company, has operations throughout the US, as well as in Australia and in Europe.

Terasen Gas is the largest natural gas distribution company in British Columbia. A Fortis subsidiary, it is the third-largest gas utility in Canada and the largest natural gas distributor in the Pacific Northwest. The utility serves 940,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 125 communities in BC. Terasen Gas also provides gas transportation services to wholesale customers, operates a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, and pipes propane products to select areas of the province. Terasen Gas serves mainland British Columbia;Terasen Gas (Vancouver Island) serves Vancouver Island, the Powell River and the Sunshine Coast; and Terasen Gas (Whistler) provides natural gas to the town of Whistler.

ITC Holdings Corp. (NYSE: ITC) invests in the electricity transmission grid to improve electric reliability, expand access to markets, lower the overall cost of delivered energy and allow new generating resources to interconnect to its transmission systems. The largest independent electricity transmission company in the country, ITC operates high-voltage transmission systems in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and portions of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, serving a combined peak load in excess of 25,000 megawatts through its regulated operating subsidiaries, ITCTransmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC), ITC Midwest and ITC Great Plains. ITC also focuses on new areas where significant transmission system improvements are needed through ITC Grid Development and its subsidiaries.

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