Sunflower Electric Power is an electricity generation and transmission cooperative. The utility has interests in six fossil-fueled generation facilities (600 MW of capacity) and operates a more-than-1,150-mile transmission system with 76 substations. Sunflower Electric Power provides electricity to its owners, six member distribution cooperatives which collectively have more than 51,000 customers in western Kansas; it also indirectly serves a further 10,000 meters as wholesale power suppliers to regional cities and towns.

American Water Works Company, Inc. provides water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the United States and Canada. As of December 31, 2009, the company served approximately 16 million people with drinking water, wastewater, and other water-related services in 35 states and two Canadian provinces. It owned approximately 80 surface water treatment plants, 600 groundwater treatment plants, 1,200 groundwater wells, 50 wastewater treatment facilities, 1,200 treated water storage facilities, 1,200 pumping stations and 100 dams, and 49,000 miles of mains and collection pipes. American Water Works Company also enters into public/private partnerships, including operation and maintenance contracts; and design, build, and operate contracts for the provision of services to water and wastewater facilities for municipalities and the United States military. In addition, the company designs, builds, and operates smaller-scale water and wastewater treatment plants for real estate developers, industrial companies, and new or expanding communities; and provides services to domestic homeowners to protect against the cost of repairing broken or leaking pipes inside and outside their homes. Further, it provides granular activated carbon for water purification, and involves in the management and disposal of biosolids and wastewater by-products for municipal and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1886 and is based in Voorhees, New Jersey.

Lyntegar Electric Cooperative is based in the agricultural heart of the Texas Panhandle, where the summer heat sizzles and the winter ice storms freeze. The rural power cooperative provides electric utility services to customers in Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Garza, Hockley, Lynn, Martin, Terry, and Yoakum counties. The cooperative also sells electric grills and provides internet and television services. In addition, Lyntegar Electric Cooperative produces Typically Texas Cookbooks, which share collections of recipes used by cooperative member-consumers.

China Power International Development Limited (China Power) is one of five national power generating groups that construct and operate large power plants in China. The company is a subsidiary of CPI Holding, and is ultimately controlled by China Power Investment Group (CPI Group). China Power owns five high-capacity coal-fired power plants, including the Pingwei Power Plant and the Yaomeng Power Plant. It also has stakes in power plants in Changshu and Shanghai. The company has an installed capacity of more than 9,000 MW. China Power also manages three other power plants, which have a total installed capacity of about 1,300 MW.

Yorkshire Water provides water and wastewater services to about 1.9 million households (4.8 million people) and approximately 130,000 business customers. The company operates more than 700 water and sewage treatment works and 120 reservoirs and supplies more than 1.3 billion liters of drinking water per day to homes and businesses in Yorkshire. Yorkshire Water also collects, treats, and disposes of about 1 billion liters of wastewater. The group has given its tap water the trade mark Icytonic, and it is the only water company in the UK to register its core product. Yorkshire Water is the primary subsidiary of Kelda Group.

The York Water Company engages in impounding, purifying, and distributing drinking water in Pennsylvania. It owns and operates two reservoirs, Lake Williams and Lake Redman, which together holds approximately 2.2 billion gallons of water. The company also has a 15-mile pipeline from the Susquehanna River to Lake Redman that provides access to an additional supply of 12.0 million gallons of water per day. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 180,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and other customers in 39 municipalities in York County and 7 municipalities in Adams County. The company was founded in 1816 and is based in York, Pennsylvania.

Canadian Utilities is the strong arm of diversified energy company ATCO and accounts for most of its sales. Canadian Utilities' regulated utilities operations are ATCO Gas, which distributes natural gas to more than 1 million customers in almost 300 communities in Alberta, and ATCO Electric, which provides electricity to about 207,000 customers. ATCO Pipelines provides natural gas transportation services to producers, major industrial users and gas distribution companies in Alberta. Canadian Utilities' Energy unit (including ATCO Power, ATCO Midstream and ATCO Energy Solutions) manages power generation and pipeline activities. The Technologies segment provide business systems solution through ARCO I-Tek.

Minnkota Power Cooperative keeps the juice flowing to power users in northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. The generation and transmission cooperative supplies electricity to its 11 member-owner distribution cooperatives, and, as operating agent for the Northern Municipal Power Agency, to 12 municipal systems, to serve more than 129,000 retail customers in a 34,500-sq.-mi. region. Minnkota owns and operates a 235 MW lignite coal-fired generation plant in Center, North Dakota; also at the site it operates the 455 MW Milton R. Young plant owned by Square Butte Cooperative. Minnkota is also pushing green power through its ownership stakes in two wind turbine projects.

Good night John-Boy. This Walton family serves 118,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in northeastern Georgia. The Walton Electric Membership Corporation (Walton EMC) operates more than 6,700 miles of power lines spanning across all or portions of ten counties (Athens-Clarke, Barrow, DeKalb, Greene, Gwinnett, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Rockdale, and Walton). Subsidiary Walton EMC Natural Gas competes in the state's deregulated retail gas supply market. Other operations include security systems installation and monitoring, appliance sales and rebates, and outdoor lighting services.

Vectren intends to inundate Indiana and Ohio with energy. Through its utility subsidiaries (Indiana Gas Company, Southern Indiana Gas and Electric, and Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio), the company distributes natural gas to 995,000 business and residential customers in the two states. It also distributes electricity to 141,000 customers and has 1,425 MW of primarily coal-fired generating capacity in Indiana. Vectren's other nonregulated businesses include retail and wholesale energy marketing and management services, coal mining, synthetic fuels production, and utility infrastructure construction.

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