CLP Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, supply, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Hong Kong, Australia, and India. The company also invests in various power projects located in the Chinese mainland, southeast Asia, and Taiwan. It invests in various power generating assets, including nuclear, pumped storage, coal-red, hydro, wind, and biomass. In addition, the company engages in the provision of engineering services; retail of electricity and gas; and storage of gas. As of December 31, 2009, it generated 6,908 megawatts of electricity; had interests in approximately 13,000 kilometers of transmission and high voltage distribution lines; and served 2.3 million customers. The company was founded in 1901 and is based in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Nature Group (formerly Nature Technology Solutions) provides wastewater treatment services to the oil, shipping, and offshore industries. Its technologies treat various types of industrial, marine, and oil industry waste streams, including using an environmental-friendly additive that helps remove hydrocarbons in oily wastewater. It helps operate port treatment plants in Gibraltar and Tananger, Norway, and a sewage treatment plant in Gibraltar; it is also involved in decommissioning refineries, installing treatment plants, and treating wastewater on offshore rigs.

United Utilities Group PLC, through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership, operation, and maintenance of water and wastewater networks in the United Kingdom and internationally. It supplies water covering a population of approximately 7 million people, and 2.9 million households and business premises; and involves in the collection and treatment of wastewater through a network of 43,419 kilometers of sewers. The company also operates electricity distribution network, and high voltage networks for businesses; and gas distribution network, as well as pipes and the equipment used to pump, condition, and store gas. In addition, United Utilities Group PLC provides consulting services and project management services; property management services; multi-utility metering operations and metering installation services; technical and management services; and asset management services. The company was formerly known as United Utilities Newco Limited and changed its name to United Utilities Group PLC in April 2008. United Utilities Group PLC was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Warrington, the United Kingdom.

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) keeps the power running smoothly. The consumer-owned cooperative provides electricity to homes, businesses, and industries in parts of 16 counties from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the mouth of the Rappahannock River in eastern Virginia. REC supplies power to 102,000 members over more than 12,000 miles of power line. Once rural in nature, the cooperative's territory has seen large pockets of suburban growth. REC offers surge protection, internet services, and home security plans to entice customers as competition from other suppliers arrives.

Owensboro, Kentucky (named after Abraham Owen, a Shelby County legislator killed in the Battle of Tippecanoe) is served by Owensboro Municipal Utilities, which provides power to almost 26,000 customers and water to 24,500. The city-owned utility operates water treatment facilities and a power plant that uses coal and used tires for fuel. Its operating divisions are Elmer Smith power plant, Engineering & Operations, Water Production, and Customer Service Center. It also offers telecommunications services. Owensboro Municipal Utilities is overseen by the five-member Owensboro Utility Commission, which is appointed by the mayor of Owensboro.

Intermountain Power Agency facilities, which began operating in 1987, supply power to the 23 founding municipalities. IPA also sells power through contracts with 13 additional utilities in Utah and California. The IPA is operated by The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.If you're into mountains (and who isn't?) Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) may well be the key to your access to power. IPA was formed in 1977 by 23 Utah municipal electric utilities to develop and operate the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), a two-unit coal-fired generation facility with a capacity of 1,700 MW, and two high-voltage transmission systems.

Pennsylvania-American Water Company distributes water and provides wastewater services to a population of more than 2 million people in more than 370 communities across Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania-American Water also operates some 35 water treatment plants, seven wastewater facilities, and 9,900 miles of pipeline. The company's service territory covers some 35 Pennsylvania counties. Pennsylvania-American Water, the largest regulated water and wastewater service provider in Pennsylvania, is a subsidiary of the New Jersey-based American Water.

Viridian Group, through its main subsidiary, regulated regional electric company Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE), transmits and distributes power to about 793,000 homes and businesses in Northern Ireland. Its NIE Energy Supply unit is the regulated electricity supplier in Northern Ireland. Viridian is also involved in unregulated businesses, including retail power and natural gas marketing (Energia) and high-voltage electrical infrastructure contracting (Powerteam). It also participates in Ireland's electricity market through its Energia subsidiary, which deals in both retail and wholesale energy. In 2010 Irish power utility ESB Group acquired NIE from Viridian for $1 billion.

Graver Technologies makes filtration and separation products to eliminate impurities from water and air. The company's offerings include adsorbents, industrial air and gas filters, ion exchange resins, liquid filter cartridges, and stainless steel filter membranes. Its production locations are in Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. Graver Technologies' products are used primarily in manufacturing processes. The company's customers include operators of power plants and companies in the chemical, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, along with makers of compressors, pumps, and turbines. Graver Technologies is a unit of the diversified Marmon Group of manufacturing companies.

Sometimes the sunshine state just isn't bright enough, and that's when Florida Power (doing business as Florida Power) really shines. The utility transmits and distributes electricity to 1.6 million customers and oversees more than 10,000 MW of generating capacity from interests in 14 nuclear and coal-, oil-, and gas-fired power plants. Additionally, Florida Power purchases about 20% of the energy it provides. The company is interconnected with 22 municipal power systems and with nine rural electric cooperative systems. Florida Power, a subsidiary of holding company Progress Energy, also sells wholesale power to other utilities and marketers.

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