Orival manufactures self-cleaning water filters, automatic water filters, and strainers for industrial and agricultural use as irrigation filters, cooling tower filters, industrial water filters, and HVAC filters. The company has installed units in more than 40 countries. Orival's products are flexible in design so that the company can cater to a wide range of customized orders and local requirements -- form single units, flange-to-flange systems, and complete skid mounted packages, to diverse construction standards, alternate flanges, and voltage standards.

Toronto Hydro provides electric and related services for the metropolitan area and other parts of Ontario. The company's primary subsidiary, Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited (LDC), provides regulated power transmission and distribution services to 688,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Subsidiary Toronto Hydro Energy Services markets power and provides energy efficiency products and services throughout Ontario. It also provides street lighting services (160,000 street lights) in the City of Toronto.

Xcel Energy has accelerated its energy engine into utility markets across the US. The utility holding company distributes electricity to 3.4 million customers and natural gas to 1.9 million in eight states; Colorado and Minnesota account for the majority of its customers. Its regulated utilities -- Northern States Power, Public Service Company of Colorado, and Southwestern Public Service -- have more than 20,500 MW of primarily fossil-fueled generating capacity. Xcel also has 35,200 miles of natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines. Pushing green energy sources, in 2008 Xcel announced that it would develop solar-generated power plants in Colorado as part of its green energy initiative.

West Texas Gas is 100%-owned by CEO J. L. Davis. With a deep understanding the utility of natural gas, natural gas utility West Texas Gas distributes more than 25 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, propane, and other petroleum products to more than 25,000 residential, commercial, agricultural, and governmental customers in Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle region. West Texas Gas, Inc., the fourth-largest investor-owned public utility in Texas, also operates retail gasoline stations and convenience stores and has gas gathering, production, transmission, and marketing operations.

South Staffordshire Water distributes water to more than 1.2 million people in the West Midlands and other areas of central England. The utility gets its water from two main sources, Blithfield Reservoir in the north and Chelmarsh in the south, which together supply approximately 330 megaliters per day. Its water treatment facilities are on the River Severn at Hampton Loade and at a treatment works near Lichfield. The company is the main subsidiary of South Staffordshire Plc. South Staffordshire Water was founded in 1853 by the Earl of Dudley to supply water to residents of Black County.

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.

American Electric Power Company, Inc. engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power. It generates electricity using coal and lignite, natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric energy. The company distributes electric power at wholesale to other electric utility companies, rural electric co-operatives, municipalities, and other market participants, as well as to retail customers in its service areas. It also operates nonregulated wind farms and barging operations, as well as provides various energy-related services. The company operates in the states of Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. As of December 31, 2008, it owned or leased approximately 37,000 megawatts of power generation capacity. The company was founded in 1906 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

PPL packs a powerful punch in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and the UK, where it distributes electricity to 5.2 million customers through regulated subsidiaries PPL Electric Utilities (1.4 million customers), two utilities in Kentucky (1.2 million), and Western Power Distribution Holdings (2.6 million electricity customers). The company has 19,000 MW of generating capacity and also sells energy wholesale in key US markets. Once a global power player with interests in distribution companies worldwide, the company has opted for the UK as its non-US focus. Western Power Distribution operates two of the 15 distribution networks providing electricity service in the UK -- WPD (South West) and WPD (South Wales).

The Electric Power Board of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is a mouthful. Its operating name, Nashville Electric Service (NES), sounds much better. And talking of sound, the legendary "Nashville Sound" would be hard to hear without the resources of this power distributor, which serves more than 357,000 customers in central Tennessee. NES is one of the largest government-owned utilities in the US, and operates more than 90,500 distribution transformers and about 230 substations. The company is required to purchase all its power from another government-owned operator, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

SEMCO ENERGY is owned by energy investment firm Continental Energy Systems through its Cap Rock Holding unit. Alaska and Michigan have more in common than a cold climate. SEMCO ENERGY serves approximately 410,000 natural gas consumers in both states. The company's main subsidiary is utility SEMCO ENERGY Gas, which distributes gas to about 280,000 customers in 24 Michigan counties. SEMCO's ENSTAR Natural Gas unit distributes gas to about 130,000 customers in and around Anchorage, Alaska. The company's unregulated operations include propane distribution in Michigan and Wisconsin; pipeline and storage facility operation; and information technology outsourcing.

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