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.

Energy Future Holdings (formerly TXU) has seen the future and it works -- powered by electricity. The company is the largest nonregulated retail electric provider in Texas (TXU Energy), with 2.1 million customers, and through its Luminant unit it has a generating capacity of more than 15,510 MW from its interests in nuclear and fossil-fueled power plants in the state. Energy Future Holdings has regulated power transmission and distribution operations through 80%-owned Oncor Electric Delivery. Oncor operates the largest regulated distribution and transmission system in Texas, providing power to more than 3.1 million electric delivery points over more than 117,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines.

Salt River Project (SRP) provides Phoenix with two types of currents: electric and water. Electricity comes from the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, a political subdivision of the State of Arizona that has a generating capacity of about 8,100 MW and distributes power to about 934,000 homes and businesses. The district also sells excess power to wholesale customers. Water comes from the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, a private firm that delivers almost 1 million acre-feet of water per year to residents and agricultural irrigators; the association also operates dams, canals, reservoirs, and wells in its service area.

Ormat Technologies is on an environmentally safe power trip, building geothermal as well as recovered energy power plants. Geothermal technology extracts hot water or steam that is vaporized and used to drive turbines. The fluid is then cooled and recycled back through the process, making it a clean and renewable energy source. Recovered energy utilizes heat produced in other industrial processes. The company, set up by Israel-based Ormat Industries, also sells power units for both types of plants, and sells fossil fuel powered turbo-generators with a capacity of between 400 watts and 4,000 watts. Ormat operates power plants (with a total of 518 MW of power) in Guatemala (2), Kenya, Nicaragua, and the US (10).

Environmental Waste Controls (EWC) slows down the fill-up of UK landfills. The company leases and sells waste-compactor equipment and provides maintenance services for the compactors. It also collects, transports, and recycles or disposes of waste for its 400-plus public- and private-sector customers, which include manufacturing and retail companies, food processors, hotels (such as Hilton and Radisson Hotels), railway stations, National Health Service Trusts, and local governments. The company was the subject of a management buyout in 2004. EWC was founded in 1993.

PPL packs a powerful punch in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and the UK, where it distributes electricity to 5.2 million customers through regulated subsidiaries PPL Electric Utilities (1.4 million customers), two utilities in Kentucky (1.2 million), and Western Power Distribution Holdings (2.6 million electricity customers). The company has 19,000 MW of generating capacity and also sells energy wholesale in key US markets. Once a global power player with interests in distribution companies worldwide, the company has opted for the UK as its non-US focus. Western Power Distribution operates two of the 15 distribution networks providing electricity service in the UK -- WPD (South West) and WPD (South Wales).

EQT Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated energy company in the United States. The company operates in three segments: EQT Production, EQT Midstream, and Distribution. The EQT Production segment engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas and crude oil in the Appalachian Basin. This segment’s properties are located primarily in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. As of December 31, 2009, it had 4.1 trillion cubic feet of proved reserves across 3.4 million acres. The EQT Midstream segment provides gathering, processing, transmission, and storage services to third parties in the Appalachian Basin. It has approximately 10,650 miles of gathering lines and 970 miles of transmission lines. The Distribution segment engages in the distribution and sale of natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in southwestern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and eastern Kentucky. This segment served natural gas to approximately 275,900 customers comprising of 257,300 residential, and 18,600 commercial and industrial customers. The company was formerly known as Equitable Resources, Inc. and changed its name to EQT Corporation in February 2009. EQT Corporation was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Aqua-Pure Ventures has developed a patented wastewater distillation process used in wastewater recycling. Primarily used for industrial applications, Aqua-Pure's Clear Solutions system provides evaporation technology that can easily mix with other wastewater-treatment methods. Among its many uses, Clear Solutions may be applied for treating medical wastewater and for seawater desalination. In North America Aqua-Pure distributes the Salsnes Filter, used by municipalities and industrial companies for treating wastewater. This technology, developed by the Salsnes company in Norway, can be installed in new plants or mixed with technology already in use.

PJM Interconnection, which oversees a 56,350-mile section of the North American power transmission grid that spans across 13 northeastern and midwestern states and the District of Columbia. The regional transmission organization monitors and coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in its service territory; its more than 560 members have a combined generating capacity of about 164,000 MW. Sanctioned by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, PJM is charged with ensuring fair competition among power purchasers, sellers, and traders; it also is responsible for the reliable delivery of distributed electricity to about 51 million consumers in its territory.

BKW FMB Energy has been lighting up the lives of the Swiss for more than a century. BKW produces, transmits, and distributes energy to more than 1 million residential and business end users in Switzerland and neighboring countries. The company also trades in energy. BKW operates about 13 hydroelectric plants and one nuclear power plant; it has stakes in another 15 hydroelectric plants, three nuclear power plants, and two plants that generate electricity from wind, solar and biomass sources. The total generating capacity of its plants is 640 MW. The government of the canton of Bern owns more than half of BKW.

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