Although The Peoples Natural Gas Company brings the power of natural gas to the people of the Keystone state. The company, which operates as Dominion Peoples, serves about 359,000 commercial, industrial, residential, and transportation natural gas customers in 16 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. By purchasing methane gas in Pennsylvania, the company keeps costs down by eliminating out-of-state transportation expenses. The gas utility was a division of Dominion Delivery, the gas and electric distribution and retail energy marketing unit of Dominion Resources. In 2010 Dominion Resources sold Peoples Natural Gas to a unit of investment firm SteelRiver Infrastructure.

Sumter Electric Cooperative shines more light across the Sunshine State. Known as SECO, the customer-owned utility distributes electricity to 170,000 homes and businesses across the rural Central Florida region comprised of Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Levy, Marion, Pasco, and Sumter counties. The coop operates 11,350 miles of electric lines and 47 substations. SECO's engineers design electrical facilities for new shopping centers and business parks and perform cost estimates for putting utilities underground in subdivisions. The co-op is a member of and receives generation and transmission services from Seminole Electric Cooperative.

Renegy Holdings (formerly Catalytica Energy Systems) was formed in the 2007 merger of Catalytica with the renewable energy divisions of NZ Legacy, a land and energy development firm. Among other ventures, Renegy has built a biomass power generation plant near Snowflake, Arizona, that came online in 2008. The company has long-term power purchasing agreements in place with Arizona Public Service and Salt River Project to buy biomass electricity from the Snowflake White Mountain Power plant. To save costs, in 2009 Renegy delisted its stock from the NASDAQ exchange.

Hongkong Electric Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity to commercial and industrial customers in Hong Kong and internationally. It holds interests in eight coal-fired units, five gas turbine units, two combined cycle units, and one wind turbine. The company also offers engineering consulting services to the electricity supply industry; and engages in advertising and financing activities. It operates in Australia, Thailand, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and mainland China. The company was founded in 1889 and is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Exelon Corporation company distributes electricity to 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois (including Chicago) and southeastern Pennsylvania (including Philadelphia) through subsidiaries Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and PECO Energy. PECO also distributes natural gas to 485,000 customers. Subsidiary Exelon Generation holds the company's power plants, whose production capacity is just about 25,000 MW. About two-thirds of Generation's power is nuclear. Exelon Power Team is a top wholesale energy marketer, and Exelon Energy markets retail power and offers other energy-related services.

South Jersey Industries, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the purchase, transmission, and sale of natural gas for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. It also sells natural gas and pipeline transportation capacity on a wholesale basis to various customers on the interstate pipeline system, as well as transports natural gas purchased directly from producers or suppliers to their customers. It also markets natural gas storage, commodity, and transportation assets for energy marketers, electric and gas utilities, and natural gas producers in the mid-Atlantic and southern regions of the United States. In addition, the company develops and operates energy-related projects, which provide cooling, heating, and emergency power. Further, it provides services for the acquisition and transportation of natural gas and electricity for retail end users; markets total energy management services; installs and services residential and light commercial HVAC systems; provides plumbing services; and services appliances, as well as offers meter reading services. As of December 31, 2009, South Jersey Industries, Inc. served 343,566 residential, commercial, and industrial customers primarily in southern New Jersey. South Jersey Industries, Inc. was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Folsom, New Jersey.

TestAmerica Laboratories (formerly Severn Trent Laboratories) can tell you. It operates about 40 environmental testing laboratories and more than 30 service centers in the US. TestAmerica provides chemical, physical, and biological testing of air, drinking water, tissue, and solid waste. The company has developed technologies to test air for fire retardants, explosives, radiation, and source emissions. Its affiliates include environmental and geotechnical drilling firm TestAmerica Drilling, water sampling equipment and remediation pumping system provider QED Environmental Systems, and air quality analyst EMLab P&K).

Platte River Power Authority supplies wholesale electricity to four municipalities (Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont, and Loveland) in northern Colorado, which in turn serve more than 140,500 residences and businesses. The utility, which is a political subdivision of the state of Colorado, has interests in fossil-fueled and wind-powered generation facilities; it also operates transmission assets and acts as a wholesale electric utility, acquiring, constructing and operating generation capacity and supplying electric energy on an as needed basis. Platte River Power Authority evolved from the Platte River Municipal Power Association, a consortium of 31 municipalities.

Macao Water Supply Co. Ltd,the utility supplies its customers with water from the West River's Modaomen Channel in Zhuhai City. Because of the high salinity content in the water (especially in the winter and spring months), Macao Water Supply uses a system of holding tanks and purification stations. Founded in 1932, the company is a subsidiary of Sino-French Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited (a joint venture of France-based water utility Ondeo Services and Hong Kong-based NWS Holdings Limited). As part of an ongoing maintenance strategy the company has replaced or repaired all of the distribution network that was in place in 1982.

The Intermountain Gas Company story began in 1950 when Nat and Myrtis Campbell read a newspaper article that piqued their interest in the natural gas industry. Intermountain Gas Company was incorporated that year. After five years of hard work laying the foundation for a new public utility company, Intermountain Gas Company received certification from the Idaho Public Utilities Commission on December 10, 1955. Then, on December 31, 1955, we connected our first five customers. Since then, Intermountain Gas Company has grown along with Idaho. Today, Intermountain Gas Company is a natural gas distribution company serving approximately 305,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 74 communities in southern Idaho. Intermountain is a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group, Inc., a multidemensional natural resources enterprise traded on the New York Stock Exchange as "MDU", www.mdu.com.

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