Infiltrator Systems is not connected to The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, spy satellites, or any other relic of Cold War espionage. The company is the world's leading maker of plastic leachfield products used to handle commercial and residential wastewater. Infiltrator Systems' leachfield drainage chambers are a direct and cost-effective replacement for stone and pipe leachfields, and create a footprint only half the size of traditional leachfields. The products, which are made at facilities in Kentucky and Utah, are sold throughout the US. The company estimates that one in four septic systems in the US uses Infiltrator Systems' products.

Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (KEPCo), headquartered at Topeka, Kansas, was incorporated in 1975 as a not-for-profit generation and transmission (G & T) cooperative. It is KEPCo's responsibility to procure an adequate and reliable power supply for its 19 distribution rural electric cooperative Members at a reasonable cost. Through their combined resources, KEPCo Members support a wide range of other services such as rural economic development, marketing and diversification opportunities, power requirement and engineering studies, and rate design, among others.KEPCo is governed by a Board of Trustees representing each of its 19 Members which collectively serve more than 110,000 electric meters in the eastern two-thirds of rural Kansas (see map). The KEPCo Board of Trustees meets regularly to establish policies and act on issues that often include recommendations from working committees of the Board and KEPCo staff.

Techem knows when the heat is on. The company is a leading European utility services firm (with operations in 20 countries) that monitors energy and water consumption in 8 million end-user households, primarily apartments and multi-family dwellings in Germany. It also offers its 690,000 clients additional services such as heat and water meter sales and rentals, heating system maintenance, and bill collection. Techem Energy Contracting builds and operates facilities for energy supply, and the company's IT division offers property management software.

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).

Shell International Renewables (doing business as Shell Renewables) may be able to turn them into fuel to power homes and vehicles. The company oversees many of the parent Royal Dutch Shell's operations in alternative fuels, was formed in 1997 to commercially explore the global possibilities of new low-carbon power systems. Shell Renewables markets and distributes alternative energies from the sun, the wind, hydrogen (technically an energy carrier rather than energy source), and bio-fuels worldwide. It is researching hydrogen created from natural gas and bio-fuels, made of everything from corn to algae, to replace gasoline in cars.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) keeps the movie cameras running and the swimming pools full. The largest municipally owned utility in the US, LADWP provides electricity to more than 1.4 million residential and business customers and water to 640,000 customers. The company has power plant interests that give it more than 7,220 MW of generating capacity; it also buys and sells wholesale power. Most of the city's water supply is transported through two aqueduct systems from the Sierra Nevada Mountains; other water sources include wells and local groundwater basins. Because LADWP is city-owned, its retail monopoly status was unaffected by utility deregulation in California.

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (WCNOC) helps to sate the energy hunger of the US public. The nuclear plant operator is in charge of the Wolf Creek Generating Station in Kansas, which houses a four-loop pressurized water reactor that generates about 1,200 MW of electricity (enough to power some 800,000 homes). WCNOC is joint venture between Westar Energy, which owns a 47% stake, Great Plains Energy (which through subsidiary Kansas City Power & Light owns 47%), and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, 6%. Its job description is to operate, maintain, repair, and eventually decommission the Wolf Creek Generating Station.

Brazos Electric is a 3,219 megawatt generation and transmission cooperative whose members' service territory extends across 68 counties from the Texas Panhandle to Houston. Organized in 1941, Brazos Electric was the first cooperative formed in the Lone Star state for the purpose of generating and supplying electrical power. Today, it is the largest generation and transmission cooperative in Texas. Brazos Electric is the wholesale power supplier for its 16 member-owner distribution cooperatives and two municipal systems.

Pall Aeropower, a subsidiary of filtration products maker Pall, manufactures filtration equipment for use in the aerospace and defense industries, as well as for general industrial applications. The company's products are used in aircraft cabin air filtration, fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft, marine vessels, military land vehicles, and space vehicles. Its Portable Fluid Purifier automatically removes water, gases, solvents and particulate matter from coolants, hydraulic and lubrication fluids, and other liquids. The unit sells directly to customers in most of its markets, though Danish company Satair distributes to commercial airlines. Pall Aeropower is part of its parent's industrial business segment.

The Laclede Group, Inc. operates as a public utility holding company. The company’s principal subsidiary, Laclede Gas Company, provides natural gas service to approximately 630,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in metropolitan St. Louis and surrounding counties in eastern Missouri. Its primary non-regulated subsidiary, Laclede Energy Resources, Inc., markets natural gas and related services to on-system utility transportation customers and customers outside of its utility’s traditional service area. The Laclede Group company was founded in 1857 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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