Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation is a member-owned cooperative whose mission is to benefit our member-owners by providing reliable electric and energy services - delivered efficiently and with extraordinary customer care. Blue Ridge Electric serves approximately 73,700 consumers in Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, and Alleghany counties and parts of Wilkes, Alexander and Avery counties. We are part of the Touchstone Energy network, an alliance of 680 cooperatives in 46 states, that collectively deliver power and energy solutions to more than 40 million consumers every day.Our wholly-owned subsidiary, Blue Ridge Energies, is a private, for-profit company that provides propane and heating fuels to residential and business customers from offices in Lenoir, Boone, West Jefferson,As a comprehensive energy company, Blue Ridge Electric's guiding purpose is to be a major shaper of the future in our market area and to experience the joy of helping people achieve new levels of economic prosperity.

TransAlta has transformed itself from one of Canada's largest electric utilities into a global independent power producer with assets in Australia, Canada, and the US. The company has about about 8,990 MW of operational generating capacity. It trades and markets electricity and gas in Canada and the US. Most of TransAlta's generating capacity is coal-fired; the rest comes from gas-fired, hydroelectric, and alternative-energy plants. TransAlta has sold its regulated distribution and transmission businesses to focus on power generation and marketing, primarily to industrial and wholesale customers. The company has more than 80 power plants in Australia, Canada, and the US.

Jackson Energy Authority is a public utility created under a private act passed by the Tennessee Legislature. Our assets and operations are paid for through utility rates, not tax money. A five-member Board of Directors, appointed by Jackson’s Mayor and City Council, governs Jackson Energy Authority.Jackson Energy Authority is one of few public utilities in the United States offering customers all major utility services from one company. We provide reliable electric, gas, propane, water, wastewater, and broadband services. We serve about 40,000 residences, businesses and industry in Jackson, TN and parts of Madison County. We also supply propane to customers not on our natural gas system.

New Universe International Group supplies injection molds and plastic products primarily to global manufacturers of automotive parts and medical equipment, while its environmental businesses, owned by subsidiary New Universe Environmental Technologies, provide removal and treatment of industrial and medical waste in China. The company's plastics products are exported to customers in Europe, the Far East, and the US including Canon, Ford, Volvo, and Whirlpool. The company is controlled by CEO Xi Yu who owns parent company New Universe Enterprises.

Veolia Environnement holds water -- as well as waste management, energy, and transportation -- operations. The company's Veolia Eau unit, which provides water and wastewater services to more than 80 million people in more than 60 countries, is the world's largest water company, ahead of SUEZ Environnement. Veolia Environmental Services, one of the world's leading waste management companies, serves more than 70 million people a year. Majority-owned energy unit Dalkia (Veolia Energy Services) operates global cogeneration facilities and heating and cooling systems, and Veolia Transport (formerly Connex) is a top European provider of bus, light-rail, and rail transport and operates in about 30 countries.

Tokyo Gas Co. is Japan's #1 gas co. Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. produces and distributes natural gas to nearly 10 million households in Japan's Kanto region, which encompasses Tokyo and the surrounding area. Its gas pipeline network exceeds 50,000 kms. The company also provides district heating and cooling, operates LNG (liquefied natural gas) tankers and terminals, manages real estate properties, provides utility construction services, develops and sells gas appliances, and distributes gas in Malaysia. Tokyo Gas imports LNG and is participating in upstream development projects. To help pay down debt related its purchase of Union Fenosa in 2009 Gas Natural sold power assets in Mexico to Tokyo Gas and Mitsui for $1.2 billion.

Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) provides electricity to 13.3 million customers in Japan's Kansai region. The utility has a generating capacity of more than 33,850 MW, which is produced at more than 160 hydroelectric, fossil-fueled, and nuclear power plants. As deregulation takes effect, KEPCO is moving into new business arenas, including retail natural gas sales in Japan. Additionally, KEPCO is engaged in information technology, telecommunications, construction and engineering services, environmental services, home security, real estate, transportation leasing, and other energy-related operations. It has about 50 main affiliated companies, primarily in Japan.

Environmental Waste Controls (EWC) slows down the fill-up of UK landfills. The company leases and sells waste-compactor equipment and provides maintenance services for the compactors. It also collects, transports, and recycles or disposes of waste for its 400-plus public- and private-sector customers, which include manufacturing and retail companies, food processors, hotels (such as Hilton and Radisson Hotels), railway stations, National Health Service Trusts, and local governments. The company was the subject of a management buyout in 2004. EWC was founded in 1993.

Degremont designs, builds, and operates water treatment plants worldwide to purify water and treat wastewater. The company has operations in more than 70 countries, and its plants provide more than 1 billion people with potable water. It is a specialist in designing and constructing facilities for seawater desalination by the means of reverse osmosis. It also designs and builds sludge treatment facilities. In the US the group operates through subsidiary Infilco Degremont. United Water formed a joint venture with Infilco Degrement in 2009 to operate a Water Environmental Research Center in Richmond,Virginia.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Cowlitz County, Washington (or Cowlitz County Public Utility District), a Depression era institution that provides electric utility services to 47,400 customers (including 42,400 residential customers and 5,200 commercial clients) in its service territory. The municipal utility also serves more than 3,800 Longview-Kelso area water utility customers. Like 27 other PUDs in Washington state, Cowlitz County Public Utility District has the authority to offer electric, water, wastewater, and wholesale telecommunication service.

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