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.

CLP Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, supply, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Hong Kong, Australia, and India. The company also invests in various power projects located in the Chinese mainland, southeast Asia, and Taiwan. It invests in various power generating assets, including nuclear, pumped storage, coal-red, hydro, wind, and biomass. In addition, the company engages in the provision of engineering services; retail of electricity and gas; and storage of gas. As of December 31, 2009, it generated 6,908 megawatts of electricity; had interests in approximately 13,000 kilometers of transmission and high voltage distribution lines; and served 2.3 million customers. The company was founded in 1901 and is based in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Clearford Industries provides water and wastewater management and sewage treatment services throughout North America. For rural areas the company's patented Small Bore Sewer technology obviates the need for a septic tank by using pipes with a narrow diameter -- as opposed to larger ones used in urban systems -- to transport waste from a residence to a wastewater treatment plant. In 2008 the company sold its Brooklin Concrete division, a leading producer of septic tanks in Ontario, to Armtec Limited Partnership.

The dryly named electric utility Electric Power Development Co. has a much more fun nickname -- J-POWER. With a generating capacity of 16,380 MW, the company supplies power used all over Japan. It has 67 hydroelectric plants, as well as some thermal and geothermal plants, and owns a transmission network that covers 2,400 km. J-POWER acts as a wholesale electric utility, selling to other electric power companies. Established by the Japanese government in 1952, J-POWER went through the privatization process, finally achieving full privatization and trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2004. The company is also sometimes referred to as EPDC.

Falck Group makes its money through windy days, dead plants, and companies looking for a loan. The company maintains bioenergy and wind energy operations through publicly traded subsidiary Actelios. It also offers financial services to partners and suppliers through subsidiary Riesfactoring. Though it operates primarily in Italy, Falck's wind energy business is active in France, Spain, and the UK as well. The company was founded in 1906 by Giorgio Enrico Falck, a third-generation ironworker.

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.

AMEC Geomatrix Consultants hopes to be chosen to provide engineering, environmental, and geological consulting services. Its environmental-related services include support for air quality compliance, licensing and regulatory assistance, site assessment, and remediation. The firm also provides assessments of seismic activity and earthquake-related engineering services, cartography and other geographic information systems (GIS) design, decision analysis consulting, and natural resources optimization. AMEC Geomatrix, a unit of AMEC Earth & Environmental, conducts projects worldwide and has 19 offices located throughout the US, and one in Canada.

El Paso Electric Company, a public utility company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity primarily in west Texas and southern New Mexico. It principally operates nuclear, natural gas, and coal power plants, as well as purchases power. The company also operates wind turbines. As of December 31, 2009, it owned 6 electrical generating facilities with a net generating capacity of approximately 1,643 megawatts. The company served approximately 370,000 residential, commercial, industrial, public authority, and wholesale customers. It sells its products to electric utilities and power marketers, as well as to oil, copper refining, and steel production facilities, and the United States military installations. The company was founded in 1901 and is based in El Paso, Texas.

Thames Water Holdings plc provides regulated water to 8.5 million customers and wastewater services to about 13.6 million people in London and the Thames Valley. It operates 100 water treatment plants, about 290 pumping stations, and 235 reservoirs. On the wastewater side of the business the company operates 43,500 miles of sewer lines and 350 wastewater treatment plants. In addition to its water and wastewater operations, Thames Water offers consulting, infrastructure, project management, engineering, and maintenance services. The company is controlled by Kemble Water Limited.

Active Power, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets critical power quality solutions. It provides various products that deliver continuous clean power, and protects customers from voltage fluctuations, such as surges and sags, and frequency fluctuations, as well as offer temporary power to bridge the gap between a power outage and the restoration of utility power. The company offers CleanSource UPS, a battery free uninterruptible power supply system (UPS) that integrates UPS electronics and flywheel energy storage system into one compact cabinet. Active Power, Inc. also provides CleanSource DC, which is a battery-free replacement option for lead-acid batteries for use in bridging power; CoolAir DC; CoolAir UPS; and GenSTART, which is a battery-free, starting modular system. It offers continuous power systems that comprise UPS system, switchgear, and a generator under the PowerHouse brand name. Active Power, Inc. also provides services, including engineering, installation, start-up, monitoring, and repair for its products. The company serves data centers, manufacturing, technology, broadcast and communications, financial, utilities, healthcare, government, and airport industries. It sells its products through direct sales employees, value added resellers, manufacturers representatives, distributors, strategic IT partners, and original equipment manufacturer partners in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

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