Alkane Energy pursues the arcane task of extracting methane gas from abandoned coal mines in the UK and Germany for the dual purposes of direct supply to industrial clients and for on-site power generation. A renewable energy company, Alkane aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, through the capturing of coalbed methane and its conversion to energy. The company designs, builds, and services containerized methane treatment plants and electricity generation facilities that use biogas, landfill gas, sewage gas, and coal mine methane. Alskane operates seven biogas-to-electricity sites in the UK and one in Germany.

The main tenet of TenneT's business is to keep the Dutch national power transmission grid running smoothly across the nation's high-voltage power lines, constantly balancing supply with demand. The state-owned company also provides inspection and maintenance services for the infrastructure. TenneT manages more than 2,040 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and more than 50 electrical substations. Subsidiary APX manages non-contracted wholesale energy transactions. In 2010 TenneT spent $1.1 billion to buy grid operator transpower from E.ON. In 2010 a TenneT and National Grid joint venture began laying the first section of a high-voltage cable to connect the power grids in the Netherlands and the UK.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Cowlitz County, Washington (or Cowlitz County Public Utility District), a Depression era institution that provides electric utility services to 47,400 customers (including 42,400 residential customers and 5,200 commercial clients) in its service territory. The municipal utility also serves more than 3,800 Longview-Kelso area water utility customers. Like 27 other PUDs in Washington state, Cowlitz County Public Utility District has the authority to offer electric, water, wastewater, and wholesale telecommunication service.

Dominion Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in producing and transporting energy in the United States. It operates in three segments: DVP, Dominion Generation, and Dominion Energy. The DVP segment includes regulated electric transmission and distribution operations that serve residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. This segment also involves in non regulated retail energy marketing of electricity and natural gas. The Dominion Generation segment includes the electricity generation through coal, nuclear, gas, oil, and renewables; and related energy supply operations. It also comprises generation operations of the company’s merchant fleet and energy marketing, and price risk management activities for these assets. The Dominion Energy segment includes the company’s Ohio and West Virginia regulated natural gas distribution companies, regulated gas transmission pipeline and storage operations, natural gas gathering and by-products extraction activities, regulated LNG import and storage, and Appalachian exploration and production operations. It also provides producer services, which aggregates natural gas supply; engages in natural gas trading and marketing activities; and involves in natural gas supply management. The company’s portfolio of assets includes approximately 27,500 MW of generation; 6,000 miles of electric transmission lines; 56,000 miles of electric distribution lines; 12,000 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering, and storage pipeline; and 21,700 miles of gas distribution pipeline. Dominion Resources, Inc. also owns approximately 942 bcf of storage capacity of natural gas and serves retail energy customers in 12 states. In addition, it sells electricity at wholesale prices to rural electric cooperatives, municipalities, and into wholesale electricity markets. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

IBERDROLA, S.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in producing, switching, retailing, and distributing electricity and gas. The company primarily generates nuclear, fossil-fuel, hydroelectric, and wind power. It also offers raw materials or primary energies required for electric power generation; energy, engineering, computer, and telecommunications services; services relating to the Internet; urban and gas retailing services; regasification, transmission or distribution services, as well as other gas storage services; assistance and support services; and real estate and other related services. In addition, the company involves in the treatment and distribution of water; representation, marketing, and distribution of various goods and services, products, articles, merchandise, computer programs, industrial equipment, machinery, machine and hand tools, spare parts, and accessories; and research, plan, and study of investment and corporate organization projects, as well as develops, sets up, and promotes industrial, commercial, and service companies. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 10 million users in Spain; 3.2 million electric customers and 2 million gas customers in the United Kingdom; 1.84 million electric customers and 0.93 million gas users in Latin America. The company is based in Bilbao, Spain.

Reliance Infrastructure, formerly Reliance Energy, transmits and distributes electricity across India. The company's service territory covers an area exceeding a 124,300 square kilometers and includes the major cities of Delhi and Mumbai. Reliance Infrastructure operates power plants that generate more than 940 MW of capacity. Part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, Reliance Infrastructure delivers more than 36 billion units of electricity to more than 30 million consumers. The company is also a major player in India's heavy construction market, and is engaged in constructing roads and airports, and developing urban infrastructure. It also has interests in real estate and retail hospitality.

TestAmerica Laboratories (formerly Severn Trent Laboratories) can tell you. It operates about 40 environmental testing laboratories and more than 30 service centers in the US. TestAmerica provides chemical, physical, and biological testing of air, drinking water, tissue, and solid waste. The company has developed technologies to test air for fire retardants, explosives, radiation, and source emissions. Its affiliates include environmental and geotechnical drilling firm TestAmerica Drilling, water sampling equipment and remediation pumping system provider QED Environmental Systems, and air quality analyst EMLab P&K).

Dee Valley Group, operating through its Dee Valley Water unit, supplies water to more than 106,000 households and 8,250 commercial, industrial, and business customers in North East Wales and Cheshire. Dee Valley Water, formed from the combination of Wrexham Water and Chester Waterworks, supplies water to an 831-sq.-km. area. Dee Valley Water exited its nonwater operations in 2002. The company has been investing in its mains and distribution system to preventage leakage, and in 2005 it completed a 15-year water main rehabilitation program. It also commissioned a water treatment works at Pendinas. Dee Valley Group was created in 1994 as the holding company for Wrexham Water. Axa Sun Life owns 35% of the company.

Lee County Electric Cooperative's service territory includes Cape Coral, North Fort Myers, Marco Island, Sanibel and Captiva Islands, Pine Island, Everglades City, Immokalee, and parts of Lehigh Acres. The member-owned electric utility operates more than 6,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines. Tampa-based Seminole Electric Cooperative serves as LCEC's wholesale power supplier.

Brazos Electric is a 3,219 megawatt generation and transmission cooperative whose members' service territory extends across 68 counties from the Texas Panhandle to Houston. Organized in 1941, Brazos Electric was the first cooperative formed in the Lone Star state for the purpose of generating and supplying electrical power. Today, it is the largest generation and transmission cooperative in Texas. Brazos Electric is the wholesale power supplier for its 16 member-owner distribution cooperatives and two municipal systems.

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