NOVEC is no novice when it comes to electricity distribution. Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) is a member-owned utility that serves more than 130,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and government customers in northern Virginia. NOVEC receives its power supply primarily from generation and transmission utility Old Dominion Electric Cooperative. The company also markets natural gas and long-distance phone services to retail customers in Virginia and Maryland through its NOVEC Energy Solutions unit. Subsidiary NOVEC Solutions sells energy appliances. NOVEC was formed in 1983 through the merger of Prince William Electric Cooperative and Tri-County Electric Cooperative.

Electricity, natural gas, and propane are the right energy mix to keep the customers of Florida Public Utilities happy. Florida Public Utilities Company serves more than 51,530 natural gas, 31,030 electricity, and more than 1,640 propane customers in southern, central, northwestern, and northeastern Florida. Florida Public Utilities buys its natural gas supply directly from marketers and producers and its electricity supply from nearby generating utilities; propane is purchased from wholesale suppliers. In 2009 Chesapeake Utilities acquired the company in a move that made Chesapeake Utilities a national player, and boosted the customer base of the combined companies to 200,000 in the Florida and Mid-Atlantic markets.

Zodiac Marine and Pool (formerly Polaris Pool Systems) wants your backyard retreat to be sparkly clean, and your maritime sector to have access to the best in liferafts and inflatable boats. The swimming pool and spa maintenance division manufactures a wide range of automatic pool cleaners, automated chlorinators, and related accessories. The marine division makes inlflatable boats for recreational use and for the military, as well as a toilets, grease separators, marine incinerators, and other environmental equipment for the marine sector. Zodiac Marine and Pool, a Carlyle Group company, has operations throughout the US, as well as in Australia and in Europe.

ALLETE provides light to the northern climes. Most of its business is classified within its regulated operations, which include electric, gas, and water utilities located in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Those operations are conducted through subsidiaries Minnesota Power (about 145,000 customers) and Superior Water, Light and Power (about 35,000 customers for its electric, gas, and water utilities). ALLETE's other segment includes coal mining operations, emerging technologies related to electric utilities, and a real estate business (large land tracts in Florida). Subsidiary BNI Coal operates a mine in North Dakota that supplies, primarily, two generating co-ops, Minnkota Power and Square Butte.

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) keeps the lights on in the Pacific Northwest. The US Department of Energy power marketing agency operates a transmission grid (with more than 15,000 miles of high-voltage lines) that delivers about 35% of the electrical power consumed in the region. The electricity that BPA wholesales is generated primarily by 31 federal hydroelectric plants and one private nuclear facility. BPA also purchases power from other hydroelectric, gas-fired, and wind and solar generation facilities in North America. Founded in 1937, BPA sells power to more than 140 primary customers, mainly public and investor-owned utilities in the Pacific Northwest.

Calpine Corporation, an independent wholesale power generation company, engages in the ownership and operation of natural gas-fired and geothermal power plants in North America. It generates electricity and produces steam from natural gas-fired combustion and renewable geothermal facilities. The company sells wholesale power, steam, capacity, renewable energy credits, and ancillary services to utilities, independent electric system operators, industrial and agricultural companies, retail power providers, municipalities, and power marketers. As of December 31, 2009, the company had a portfolio of 77 operating power plants with an aggregate generation capacity of approximately 24,802 megawatts. Calpine Corporation was founded in 1984 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc. distributes or transports natural gas in central and southeastern Kentucky. It operates through two segments, Regulated and Non-Regulated. The Regulated segment sells and distributes natural gas to its retail customers primarily in 23 rural counties. This segment also transports gas to industrial customers on its system who purchase gas in the open market, as well as transports gas on behalf of local producers and other customers not on its distribution system. The Non-Regulated segment purchases natural gas in the open market, primarily from Kentucky producers, and resells this gas to industrial customers on its distribution system and to others not on its system. This segment also produces natural gas that is sold to Delgasco for resale in the open market. Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc. owns approximately 2,500 miles of natural gas gathering, transmission, distribution, storage, and service lines; and holds leases for the storage of natural gas under 8,000 acres located in Bell County, Kentucky. It serves approximately 37,000 customers. Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc. was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Winchester, Kentucky.

Bangor Hydro-Electric (BHE) has dropped its hydro, but the company still has plenty of electricity. As part of the restructuring of the electric utility industry in the state of Maine, BHE has shed its generating facilities, including its hydroelectric projects, to focus on distribution and transmission. The regulated utility serves 117,000 customers in six counties in southeastern Maine. The company is also a member of the New England Power Pool. Bangor Hydro-Electric is a subsidiary of Canada's Emera, the parent company of electric utility Nova Scotia Power.

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.

Cambridge Water distributes water to about 125,000 residential customers and business customers in the greater Cambridge area. Overall, the company serves a population of about 300,000. Cambridge Water maintains some 2,140 km of water mains and 34 storage towers and reservoirs. All the water supplied to customers is pumped from 25 underground sources. About 55% of water billed is charged by meter. The company offers its clients the delivery of emergency bottled water; customers pre-order water that Cambridge Water will deliver in the event of a major incident. The company is controlled by Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings.

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