Enerchina Holdings focuses on offering a variety of energy and public utility services in about 40 cities in China. The company generates electrical power, as well as provides more than 400,000 tons of natural gas every year through Panva Gas Holdings. Panva also offers pipeline network construction, transportation, storage, and wholesale of natural gas. Enerchina Holdings serves more than 3 million customers. The company is researching and developing other clean energy sources, including different uses of coal. Chairman Ou Yaping owns about 52% of Enerchina Holdings.

RainSoft (a division of Aquion Water Treatment Products) wants to clear up the water in your home or office. Through its division, the company makes residential and commercial water treatment equipment. Products include whole-house water conditioning systems, drinking water systems, and filters designed to remove particular contaminants that detract from water's taste and odor. RainSoft's products are distributed through a network of about 300 independent dealers in the US and in 24 countries in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Clients have included Allstate , Dow Chemical, Ford Motor, Holiday Inn, and Underwriters Laboratories.

ACEA S.p.A. municipal utility in Italy, it is also Italy's #1 water utility and a top electricity distributor. ACEA provides water to more than 7 million people and distributes power to more than 2.7 million homes and businesses in Rome and surrounding areas. In keeping with Europe-wide utility liberalization, the City of Rome has sold 49% of ACEA on the public market. The former monopoly has also built on Enel's Roman distribution assets, and through a joint venture with Electrabel, it has expanded into power generation, energy marketing, and natural gas distribution. ACEA also has international utility interests.

Veolia Environnement holds water -- as well as waste management, energy, and transportation -- operations. The company's Veolia Eau unit, which provides water and wastewater services to more than 80 million people in more than 60 countries, is the world's largest water company, ahead of SUEZ Environnement. Veolia Environmental Services, one of the world's leading waste management companies, serves more than 70 million people a year. Majority-owned energy unit Dalkia (Veolia Energy Services) operates global cogeneration facilities and heating and cooling systems, and Veolia Transport (formerly Connex) is a top European provider of bus, light-rail, and rail transport and operates in about 30 countries.

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (WCNOC) helps to sate the energy hunger of the US public. The nuclear plant operator is in charge of the Wolf Creek Generating Station in Kansas, which houses a four-loop pressurized water reactor that generates about 1,200 MW of electricity (enough to power some 800,000 homes). WCNOC is joint venture between Westar Energy, which owns a 47% stake, Great Plains Energy (which through subsidiary Kansas City Power & Light owns 47%), and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, 6%. Its job description is to operate, maintain, repair, and eventually decommission the Wolf Creek Generating Station.

Sempra Energy, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development of energy infrastructure, operation of utilities, and provision of energy-related products and services worldwide. It operates through two divisions, Sempra Utilities and Sempra Global. The Sempra Utilities division includes San Diego Gas & Electric, a regulated public utility that provides electric generation, transmission, and distribution services to 3.5 million consumers, and natural gas distribution services to 3.2 million consumers; and Southern California Gas, a regulated public utility that provides natural gas distribution, transmission and storage services to a population of 20.7 million. The Sempra Global division comprises of Sempra Commodities, a commodities-marketing business operating under the joint venture, RBS Sempra Commodities, with The Royal Bank of Scotland; Sempra Generation, which develops, owns and operates, or holds interest in electric power plants serving wholesale electricity markets in North America; Sempra Pipelines & Storage that develops, owns, operates, or holds interests in natural gas pipelines and storage facilities in the United States and Mexico, as well as in companies that provide natural gas or electric services in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru; and Sempra LNG, which develops, owns, and operates receipt terminals for importing liquefied natural gas. Sempra Energy was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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.

Ohio Pure Water distributes a wide range of water purification and treatment equipment to customers throughout the US. Its products include chlorination systems, water softeners, water filters, reverse-osmosis equipment, UV sterilizers, and drinking water systems. Other equipment includes flexible hose units, float switches and valves, PVC air injectors, and mineral tanks and parts. The company conducts most of its sales through its Web site. Ohio Pure Water was founded in 1996 by president C. K. Moore, a former maintenance superintendent for the State of Ohio.

RMT furnishes environmental engineering and consulting services to businesses that want to keep it clean. The company's services include solid waste management, liability reduction and remediation, air quality management, employee health and safety management, construction contracting, energy and alternative energy management, wastewater treatment, and data management services. RMT serves customers in the cement, chemicals, solid waste, electricity, forest products, metals, oil and gas, and textiles industries. Part of Alliant Energy's Integrated Services division, RMT operates 12 US offices with single locations in France and the UK.

Westar Energy wished upon a star, and the answer was -- "focus on power utility resources." Westar Energy has a generating capacity of more than 7,100 MW (mostly from fossil-fueled facilities) and serves about 685,000 electricity customers in Kansas through its utility subsidiaries. Westar Energy supplies power to 368,000 retail customers in central and northeast Kansas, and subsidiary Kansas Gas and Electric (KGE) supplies power to 317,000 retail customers in south-central and southeastern Kansas. The company operates 34,200 miles of transmission and distribution lines. It supplies wholesale electric power to more than 30 cities in Kansas and four electric cooperatives that serve rural areas.

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