Brookfield Renewable Power (formerly Brookfield Power) produces electricity for the Americas. The power generating and marketing operations of its parent company Brookfield Asset Management operates 166 hydroelectric generating facilities in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia (a total of 32 generating stations), as well as in the US (100), and Brazil (34). Brookfield Renewable Power is also developing wind power facilities to complement its hydroelectric power activities. It operates the 189 MW capacity Prince Wind project, the largest wind farm in Canada. The company has more than 4,200 MW of installed capacity.

Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais provides water supply (for about 12 million people) and sewage treatment services in more than 600 municipalities in the country's state of Minas Gerais. Founded in 1963, COPASA serves customers such as private companies, government agencies, and individuals. The government of Minas Gerais established the company under the name Companhia Mineira de Água e Esgotos in order to enforce the sanitation policy for the state. COPASA receives payment for its services in the form a tariff, which takes into account customers' consumption ranges, as well as inflation.

EcoWater Systems is in a pristine spot. The company manufactures commercial and residential water treatment systems. It sells its products through a network of more than 1,400 dealers, wholesalers, and private-label retailers. Products include water refiners, conditioners, and purifiers, and innovations such as reverse osmosis drinking water systems. Founded in 1925, EcoWater Systems is a member of Berkshire Hathaway's Marmon Group and maintains its autonomous management. In addition to the US, the company operates in Canada, the UK, Europe, and China.

TestAmerica Laboratories (formerly Severn Trent Laboratories) can tell you. It operates about 40 environmental testing laboratories and more than 30 service centers in the US. TestAmerica provides chemical, physical, and biological testing of air, drinking water, tissue, and solid waste. The company has developed technologies to test air for fire retardants, explosives, radiation, and source emissions. Its affiliates include environmental and geotechnical drilling firm TestAmerica Drilling, water sampling equipment and remediation pumping system provider QED Environmental Systems, and air quality analyst EMLab P&K).

Società Azionaria per la Condotta di Acque Potabili provides non-potent potables for Italian citizens and industrial plants. Acque Potabili provides water services to more than 100 municipalities in the country, which have more than 800,000 residents combined; its water distributors include Acquedotto Monferrato and Acquedotto di Savona. Italgas, which is controlled by energy conglomerate Eni, owned a 67% stake in Acque Potabili, but has since sold it to Azienda Mediterranea Gas e Acqua (AMGA) and Società Metropolitana Acque Torino (SMAT). The company's other major shareholders include Vivendi (14%) and ACEA (14%).

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.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County, Washington (or Chelan County PUD) provides power and water to residents of the county located in the middle of the Evergreen State. The utility operates three hydroelectric-generation facilities on or near the Columbia River that have a combined capacity of about 2,000 MW. About 30% of the district's electricity goes to its more than 47,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers; the rest is sold wholesale to other utilities operating in the northwestern US. Chelan County PUD also provides water and wastewater services to about 5,700 customers.

Fortis wields power. The group has holdings in 10 companies, primarily regulated electricity and gas distributors, serving about 2 million customers. Its Terasen unit is the major natural gas distribution utility in British Columbia and serves approximately 940,000 customers. Newfoundland Power utility distributes electricity to 240,000 people, while Maritime Electric serves customers on Prince Edward Island. FortisOntario serves parts of Ontario, and FortisAlberta distributes electricity to 480,000 customers in Alberta. FortisBC generates, transmits, and distributes electricity in southern British Columbia. Fortis Generation operates hydroelectric plants, and Fortis Properties runs hotels in Canada.

Minnkota Power Cooperative keeps the juice flowing to power users in northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. The generation and transmission cooperative supplies electricity to its 11 member-owner distribution cooperatives, and, as operating agent for the Northern Municipal Power Agency, to 12 municipal systems, to serve more than 129,000 retail customers in a 34,500-sq.-mi. region. Minnkota owns and operates a 235 MW lignite coal-fired generation plant in Center, North Dakota; also at the site it operates the 455 MW Milton R. Young plant owned by Square Butte Cooperative. Minnkota is also pushing green power through its ownership stakes in two wind turbine projects.

Noble Environmental Power engages in the noble pursuit of producing power while keeping the environment clean by developing wind energy plants. It has about 730 MW of wind energy plants in operation and about 1,900 MW in the development pipeline. Noble Environmental Power has half a dozen operational plants in New York and one in Texas. The company has three more New York wind parks and one each in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Texas under development. By 2012 Noble Environmental Power hopes to have a portfolio with a capacity of more than 3,850 MW. The company is controlled by a J.P. Morgan Partners, LLC unit.

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