Ormat Technologies is on an environmentally safe power trip, building geothermal as well as recovered energy power plants. Geothermal technology extracts hot water or steam that is vaporized and used to drive turbines. The fluid is then cooled and recycled back through the process, making it a clean and renewable energy source. Recovered energy utilizes heat produced in other industrial processes. The company, set up by Israel-based Ormat Industries, also sells power units for both types of plants, and sells fossil fuel powered turbo-generators with a capacity of between 400 watts and 4,000 watts. Ormat operates power plants (with a total of 518 MW of power) in Guatemala (2), Kenya, Nicaragua, and the US (10).

Missouri Gas Energy delivers natural gas in the "Show-Me" state. The utility, an operating unit of national natural gas power player Southern Union, distributes natural gas to more than 500,000 customers in 155 cities and towns located in central and western Missouri. Its territory stretches from St. Joseph in the north to Joplin and neighboring areas in the south, and from the Kansas border east to Ozark (near Springfield). Missouri Gas Energy has facilities in St. Joseph, Lees Summit, Warrensburg, Joplin, Republic, Neosho, and Monett. The Missouri Public Service Commission oversees Missouri Gas Energy's operations.

Keeping a sharp eye out for the well-being of Iowa's citizens, Central Iowa Power Cooperative provides electricity transmission and generation services to 13 member distribution cooperatives (12 rural electric cooperatives and one municipal cooperative), which in turn serve about 320,000 residential and 7,000 industrial and commercial customers. Central Iowa Power's member distribution cooperatives deliver power to commercial businesses, farmsteads, industrial parks, manufacturers, urban residences, and other customers, in a service area that stretches 300 miles diagonally across the state from Shenandoah in the southwest to the Mississippi River in the east.

Anglian Water provides regulated water, wastewater, and environmental services to some 6 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers, primarily in eastern England. The main operating subsidiary of AWG, it provides water services to 4.2 million customers across East Anglia and the East Midlands, supplying 1.2 billion liters of water daily. Anglian Water maintains a network of more than 37,000 km of water mains and treats wastewater (from 5.5 million customers) at its more than 1,100 sewage treatment works. The company also manages water and wastewater systems for the City of Hartlepool in northern England.

Through its subsidiaries, the province-owned company transmits and distributes electricity to 1.3 million residential and commercial customers (including municipal utilities) in Ontario. Its primary utility subsidiaries are Hydro One Networks (transmission and distribution) and Hydro One Brampton Networks (electricity distributor to urban areas). Hydro One Telecom markets the group's fiber-optic capacity (broadband) to businesses, and Hydro One Remote Communities supplies energy to more than 20 remote areas in Ontario.

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.

Created by Texas ranchers and business owners, Pedernales Electric Cooperative provides electricity services in the Texas Hill Country. The company, the largest electric cooperative in the US, purchases its electricity from wholesale providers, primarily the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), and transmits and distributes it to more than 234,000 customers. The member-owned cooperative is purchasing wind-power assets from American Electric Power to expand its green energy sources. In 2008 a scandal over alleged inappropriate expenditures by board members led to the resignation of the board president and intense scrutiny of the co-op by the public, members, and the government. Created by Texas ranchers and business owners, Pedernales Electric Cooperative provides electricity services in the Texas Hill Country. The company, the largest electric cooperative in the US, purchases its electricity from wholesale providers, primarily the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), and transmits and distributes it to more than 234,000 customers. The member-owned cooperative is purchasing wind-power assets from American Electric Power to expand its green energy sources. In 2008 a scandal over alleged inappropriate expenditures by board members led to the resignation of the board president and intense scrutiny of the co-op by the public, members, and the government.

Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency,the power provider supplies wholesale electricity to its 18 member municipal distribution utilities, which in turn distribute power to more than 109,000 retail customers. The agency's main power source is the 900 MW Sherco 3-power plant generating unit near Becker, Minnesota. Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency owns 41% of the low-sulfur Western coal fueled plant in partnership Northern States Power Company, the unit's operator. It also relies on a range of intermediate and peaking units owned by the agency's members.

Southern Californians soak up the sun, and the energy. The latter is where Southern California Public Power Authority comes in. The power authority generates and transmits electricity for 10 municipal distribution utilities and one irrigation district in southwestern California. Members include the municipal utilities of the cities Anaheim, Burbank, Colton, Glendale, Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Riverside. The authority has interests in three power plants and three transmission projects in the western US. It is constructing a fourth generation project. Southern California Public Power Authority also provides legislative representation and cost efficiency services to its members.

Yankee Gas Services does not ride a pony into town like a Yankee Doodle Dandy, but it does pipe a lot of natural gas to 71 central and southwest Connecticut towns and cities. With approximately 205,000 commercial, industrial, and residential customers, the company, a subsidiary of Yankee Energy System (which is itself a unit of Northeast Utilities), is the largest natural gas distributor in Connecticut. Northeast Utilities Service Company, also a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities, performs administrative and accounting duties for Yankee Gas Services.

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