Intermountain Power Agency facilities, which began operating in 1987, supply power to the 23 founding municipalities. IPA also sells power through contracts with 13 additional utilities in Utah and California. The IPA is operated by The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.If you're into mountains (and who isn't?) Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) may well be the key to your access to power. IPA was formed in 1977 by 23 Utah municipal electric utilities to develop and operate the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), a two-unit coal-fired generation facility with a capacity of 1,700 MW, and two high-voltage transmission systems.

Graver Technologies makes filtration and separation products to eliminate impurities from water and air. The company's offerings include adsorbents, industrial air and gas filters, ion exchange resins, liquid filter cartridges, and stainless steel filter membranes. Its production locations are in Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. Graver Technologies' products are used primarily in manufacturing processes. The company's customers include operators of power plants and companies in the chemical, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, along with makers of compressors, pumps, and turbines. Graver Technologies is a unit of the diversified Marmon Group of manufacturing companies.

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.

Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power) supplies wholesale electric power. The authority has a generating capacity of 2,069 MW through its interests in nuclear and fossil-fueled plants. Some 43% of the energy MEAG Power delivers comes from its nuclear plants. MEAG Power transmits electricity to 49 municipal and one county distribution systems across Georgia that in turn serve some 600,000 consumers. MEAG Power utilizes a transmission network that is co-owned by all the power suppliers in Georgia, though it plans to join a regional transmission organization (RTO).

Alliant would like you to increase your reliance on energy. Alliant Energy's utilities, Interstate Power and Light (IP&L) and Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL), provide electricity to about 1 million customers and natural gas to more than 400,000 customers in four states; the utility operations also own power plants that generate some 5,600 MW of capacity. Nonregulated operations include rail and marine transportation services, independent power production (including wind farms), and real estate. Alliant Energy also provides engineering, consulting, and management services.

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.

Xcel Energy has accelerated its energy engine into utility markets across the US. The utility holding company distributes electricity to 3.4 million customers and natural gas to 1.9 million in eight states; Colorado and Minnesota account for the majority of its customers. Its regulated utilities -- Northern States Power, Public Service Company of Colorado, and Southwestern Public Service -- have more than 20,500 MW of primarily fossil-fueled generating capacity. Xcel also has 35,200 miles of natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines. Pushing green energy sources, in 2008 Xcel announced that it would develop solar-generated power plants in Colorado as part of its green energy initiative.

Guangzhou Development Industry helps keep the lights on in China's Pearl River Delta. Established in 1997, the company is the largest power producer in Guangzhou province, with stake in about 10 coal-fired power plants with 2,100 MW of generating capacity. Guangzhou's energy logistics division operates an 80,000-ton deep-water coal-loading terminal and a 340,000-ton coal storage field. Nansha Oil Terminal, its joint venture with BP, has expanded Guangzhou's oil products distribution services throughout the region. The company is also a shareholder in Guangzhou Northern No. 2 Ring Expressway, a key toll road operating in the Pearl River Delta

Viridian Group, through its main subsidiary, regulated regional electric company Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE), transmits and distributes power to about 793,000 homes and businesses in Northern Ireland. Its NIE Energy Supply unit is the regulated electricity supplier in Northern Ireland. Viridian is also involved in unregulated businesses, including retail power and natural gas marketing (Energia) and high-voltage electrical infrastructure contracting (Powerteam). It also participates in Ireland's electricity market through its Energia subsidiary, which deals in both retail and wholesale energy. In 2010 Irish power utility ESB Group acquired NIE from Viridian for $1 billion.

Toronto Hydro provides electric and related services for the metropolitan area and other parts of Ontario. The company's primary subsidiary, Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited (LDC), provides regulated power transmission and distribution services to 688,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Subsidiary Toronto Hydro Energy Services markets power and provides energy efficiency products and services throughout Ontario. It also provides street lighting services (160,000 street lights) in the City of Toronto.

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