One of the country's largest water utilities, AWG provides regulated water, wastewater, and environmental services to some 6 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers through its Anglian Water unit. Anglian Water operates primarily in the east of England. The AWG Property unit is engaged in commercial and residential property development AWG's Morrison Facilities Services unit provides a repair and maintenance service to homes and businesses in the UK. AWG was acquired in 2006 by Osprey Acquisitions Limited.

Clean water is the goal of H2O Innovation. For amusement parks, campgrounds, cities, schools, zoos, and other enterprises, H2O Innovation uses micro filtration, ultra filtration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis to create drinking water, as well as clean water for manufacturing and other purposes. H2O Innovations also treats wastewater, offers equipment for the maple syrup industry, and desalinates seawater and brackish water. In 2007 it became the first North American company to be listed on the Alternext (Euronext) Exchange in Paris. By 2008 the company had installed more than 400 systems in Canada, the US, and elsewhere.

Tohoku Electric Power Company, Inc. (Tohoku Electric Power) serves nearly five million residences and one million commercial and industrial customers in the Tohoku region, which comprises the seven northernmost prefectures of Japan's main island of Honshu. The region contains 20% of Japan's land and 10% of its population, but accounts for only 6% of its GNP. With its mountainous landscape and heavy winter snow, Tohoku has lagged behind the rest of Japan in terms of industrial development. The region is still largely rural and is known as Japan's furusato or country home. However, the city of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture has boomed in recent years to rival the southern Japanese centers. Tohoku's climate and the inaccessibility of many parts of the region has presented Tohoku Electric Power with special problems.

Union Gas has a habit of bringing natural gas and energy consumers together. The utility, a subsidiary of midstream maven Spectra Energy transmits and distributes natural gas to more than 1.3 million residential and business customers in more than 400 communities throughout most of the Canadian province of Ontario. It also provides gas transportation and storage services for other utilities and businesses in Canada and the US. Union Gas operates 3,000 miles of transmission pipeline, 37,000 miles of distribution main and service pipeline, and 22 underground storage facilities.

Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation provides power to more than 67,000 members located in 10 counties (Burke, Catawba, Caldwell, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk and Rutherford) in the Southwestern Piedmont region of North Carolina. The cooperative (which had a membership of only 394 in 1938, but grew rapidly after WWII) owns and maintains about 7,000 miles of power line. Rutherford Electric has total assets of more than $300 million. The cooperative is a member of the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives network.

Platte River Power Authority supplies wholesale electricity to four municipalities (Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont, and Loveland) in northern Colorado, which in turn serve more than 140,500 residences and businesses. The utility, which is a political subdivision of the state of Colorado, has interests in fossil-fueled and wind-powered generation facilities; it also operates transmission assets and acts as a wholesale electric utility, acquiring, constructing and operating generation capacity and supplying electric energy on an as needed basis. Platte River Power Authority evolved from the Platte River Municipal Power Association, a consortium of 31 municipalities.

Origin Energy focuses on integrating businesses within the energy industry, primarily in gas production, power generation, and energy retailing in Australia and New Zealand (through Contact Energy). It also invests in renewable energy technologies. The company is the #2 retailer of natural gas, electricity, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Australia with some 2 million customers (mostly in Victoria). Origin explores for and produces gas and oil in Australia and New Zealand and supplies markets in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. The company focuses on the Bass and Otway Basins offshore Victoria, the Perth Basin in Western Australia, Queensland's coal seam gas areas, and New Zealand's Taranaki Basin.

The rural distribution cooperative operates nearly 5,300 miles of transmission and distribution lines. Adams-Columbia Electric was formed through the merger of Adams-Marquette Electric Cooperative and Columbus Rural Electric Cooperative in 1987. The utility expanded further through its 1992 acquisition of Waushara Electric Cooperative. The cooperative covers a 2,500 sq. ml. geographic service area.With a name that harkens back to Christopher Columbus and the Founding Fathers, Adams-Columbia Electric Cooperative provides power to more than 36,000 member-owners in 12 counties in central Wisconsin.

ThermoEnergy Corporation, a clean technologies company, develops municipal and industrial wastewater treatment systems, and carbon reducing clean energy technologies worldwide. The company's technologies include Zero Emission Boiler system, which converts fossil fuels and biomass into electricity without producing air emissions, as well as removes and captures carbon dioxide in liquid form for sequestration or beneficial reuse; and Controlled Atmosphere Separation Technology (CAST), R-CAST, and proprietary water technologies. Its technologies also comprise Ammonia Recovery Process technology that captures ammonia from dilute waste streams and converts it into ammonium sulfate; ThermoFuel Process, a renewable energy process, which converts digested or waste activated sewage sludge into an energy fuel that could be converted into electricity for use on-site or sold as a feedstock to third party industrial clients; and Enhanced Biogas Production process, which retrofits existing wastewater treatment plants to recover excess ammonia from the digesters. The company's wastewater treatment systems are used in the aerospace, food and beverage processing, metal finishing, pulp and paper, petrochemical, refining, microchip and circuit board manufacturing, heavy manufacturing, and municipal wastewater applications. Thermoenergy Corporation has a strategic alliance with Contego Systems LLC to provide solutions for airplane deicing. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Geocon Group digs deep to make sure that its client have confidence in its geotechnical, environmental, geologic, material testing, and environmental contracting services. Projects range from geotechnical investigations to hazardous substance corrective action programs. The company operates throughout the western US and in Mexico. Geocon Group has worked on more than 10,000 projects for more than 2,500 clients. Its 11 offices are in California (Bakersfield, Sacramento, San Diego, San Bernadino, Murrieta, Livermore, and Los Angeles), as well as in Portland and Condon, Oregon, and Las Vegas and Carson City, Nevada.

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