Unitil Corporation company serves about 100,500 electric customers and 70,000 natural gas customers. Unitil Energy Systems provides regulated electric utility services to 72,600 customers in New Hampshire, and subsidiary Fitchburg Gas and Electric has some 27,900 power and 15,120 natural gas customers in Massachusetts. Unitil's utility units provide retail supply services to customers who don't choose to purchase energy from a third-party marketer. Indirect subsidiary, Usource LLC, provides energy brokerage service to large energy users throughout the Northeast seeking competitive power or natural gas supplies.

EDP-Energias de Portugal, S.A. engages in the generation, supply, and distribution of electricity. It operates hydroelectric and thermal power stations, as well as wind, coal, and natural gas combined cycle power plants. EDP-Energia also involves in the supply and distribution of natural gas. It primarily operates in Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil, and the United States. EDP-Energia was incorporated in 1976 and is based in Lisbon, Portugal

Trans-Elect has elected itself as a cross-border power company. The independent transmission company owns and operates about 12,600 miles of high-voltage power lines in portions of Canada and the US. The company acts as a wholesale provider of electricity to distribution companies. It operates the former transmission assets of of US utility Consumers Energy; it is also part of an international consortium that operates the former transmission assets of Canadian power distributor TransAlta. The acquisitions were the first of their kind in the deregulating North American electricity market. Trans-Elect is also involved in several expansion projects in congested areas of the US grid.

The utility provides electricity to 490,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers over nearly 32,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines. Idaho Power holds franchises in 71 cities in Idaho and nine in Oregon. It also owns power plant interests that give it a generating capacity of more than 3,000 MW. In addition, the company, a subsidiary of IDACORP, has a 33% stake in the Bridger Coal Company, which supplies fuel to the Jim Bridger generating plant in Wyoming.Idaho Power lights up spud farms and factories in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.

AES is one of the world's leading independent power producers. The company has interests in more than 120 generation facilities in about 30 countries throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East that give it a combined net generating capacity of 40,300 MW. AES sells electricity to utilities and other energy marketers through wholesale contracts or on the spot market. AES also sells power directly to customers worldwide through its interests in distribution utilities, mainly in Latin America. In 2009 the company had 1,900 MW of power plants under development in four countries.

Kenergy kens energy, as the Scots might say. Electric distribution cooperative Kenergy serves about 55,000 customers in 14 counties (Breckinridge, Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Union and Webster) in Western Kentucky. Kenergy serves its customer base of households, commercial enterprises, and industries via more than 6,700 miles of power lines. The customer-owned company is part of Touchstone Energy Cooperatives, a national alliance of more than 600 local, consumer-owned electric utility cooperatives.

Shikoku Electric Power, like the island it serves, is making bridges to new areas. One of 10 regional electric utilities licensed by the Japanese government to generate, transmit, and distribute power, Shikoku (known as Yonden in Japan) provides electricity to more than 4 million people in the four prefectures of Shikoku. The company has a generating capacity of more than 6,660 MW, primarily from nuclear and fossil-fueled plants; however, Shikoku is converting some of its oil-fueled plants to liquefied natural gas. Shikoku has expanded beyond its power utility business into activities such as Internet access, cable TV, remote monitoring and control systems, and rest homes for the elderly.

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.

Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. and its subsidiaries develop and operate seawater desalination plants and water distribution systems, as well as produce and supply water to customers in the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. It uses reverse osmosis technology to convert seawater to potable water. The company supplies water to end-users, including residential, commercial, and government customers. As of December 31, 2009, Consolidated Water Co. operated 16 reverse osmosis desalination plants through its subsidiaries and affiliates. It also offers engineering and management services, including designing and constructing desalination plants, and managing and operating desalination plants owned by other companies. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Coast Electric Power Association when it comes to providing residents in three southern Mississippi counties with electricity. The utility uses a 6,400-mile distribution network to serve its more than 76,000 members (the great majority or which are residential customers) in Hancock, Pearl River, and Harrison counties. Coast offers electronic fund transfer and average monthly payment plans and rebates on energy efficient home improvements. The utility's power is generated by South Mississippi Electric Power, an association of Coast and 10 other cooperatives. It partners with Touchstone Energy Cooperatives.

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