Alliant Energy - is a public utility holding company headquartered in Madison, Wis. Providing customers in the Midwest with regulated electric and natural gas service is the company’s primary focus.  As the company’s growth platform, Alliant Energy’s utility business is the primary target of future capital investments. The utility business consists of Interstate Power and Light Company and Wisconsin Power and Light Company. These utility subsidiaries provide electric and natural gas services to approximately 1 million electric and 400 thousand natural gas customers in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.  Alliant Energy Resources, Inc. is the parent company of Alliant Energy’s non-regulated businesses. The future of the non-regulated business platform includes a relatively small portfolio of lower-risk, mature businesses which are not expected to be significant users of capital. Alliant Energy seeks modest, yet sustainable, growth in its utility business and remains committed to maintaining investment-grade credit ratings. Alliant Energy, a Fortune 1000 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “LNT”.

Locations: Madison, Wisconsin.  Covers a significant portion of southern Minnesota.

Website: http://www.alliantenergy.com/docs/groups/public/documents/pub/default.hcsp

Ameren Corporation - through its subsidiaries, operates as a public utility holding company in Missouri and Illinois. It engages in rate-regulated electric generation, transmission, and distribution businesses; rate-regulated natural gas transmission and distribution businesses; and non-rate-regulated electric generation businesses. The company was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Locations: St. Louis, Missouri.  Illinois.

Stock: NYSE: AAE.  Yahoo = http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AEE

Website: http://www.ameren.com/

Arizona Public Service - Website. Pinnacle West is the parent company of Arizona Public Service.  Member of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (CECC) - Energy - Reliability Page. AboutUs.org Page. *

Atlantic City Electric - is a regulated utility that provides electric service to more than 500,000 customers in southern New Jersey. Atlantic City electric previously operated under the brand name Conectiv Power Delivery.  Subsidiary of Pepco Holdings.

Website: http://www.atlanticcityelectric.com/home/

Pepco Holdings: http://www.pepcoholdings.com/about/phi/

Avista Utilities - provides generation, transmission, and distribution of efficient energy and energy services. Provides energy for more than 325,000 electric and 280,000 natural gas customers in Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

Locations: Spokane, Washington.

Stock: AVA.  Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ava

Subsidiary: Advantage IQ - Energy - ESCOs Page.  Locations: Washington.

Website: http://www.avistautilities.com

Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) - Maryland's largest gas and electric utility, delivering power to more than 1.2 million electric customers and more than 640,000 natural gas customers in Central Maryland. Approximately 3,000 employees.  BGE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Constellation Energy (see below). Locations: Baltimore, Maryland. Website.
 

Black Hills Corporation - together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified energy company primarily in the United States. The company operates through two groups, Utilities and Non-regulated energy. The Utilities group engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity to approximately 65,100 customers in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana; and the sale of electric energy and capacity. This group also engages in the distribution of electric and natural gas service. It serves approximately 39,400 electric and 33,000 natural gas customers in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and vicinity. As of December 31, 2007, the company�s electric transmission system comprised of approximately 447 miles of high voltage transmission lines and 420 miles of lower voltage lines. The Non-regulated energy group acquires, develops, and produces natural gas and crude oil primarily in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. It also engages in the production and sale of electric capacity and energy in the Rocky Mountain and western regions of the United States. In addition, this group engages in mining and selling coal at its coal mine located near Gillette, Wyoming, as well as marketing natural gas and crude oil primarily in the western and mid-continent regions of the United States and in Canada. As of December 31, 2007, the group held operating interests in oil and gas properties, including approximately 572 net wells located in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado, the Powder River and Big Horn Basins of Wyoming, the Piceance Basin of Colorado, and the Nebraska section of the Denver Julesberg Basin. It had total oil and natural gas reserves of approximately 208 billion cubic feet equivalent; and coal reserves of approximately 280 million tons. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Locations: Rapid City, South Dakota.

Stock: NYSE: BKH.   Yahoo = http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=BKH

Website: http://www.blackhillscorp.com/

CenterPoint Energy - through its subsidiaries, operates as a public utility company in the United States. The company's Electric Transmission and Distribution segment provides electric transmission and distribution services to retail electric providers, municipalities, electric cooperatives, and other distribution companies. This segment owns 27,421 pole miles of overhead distribution lines and 3,738 circuit miles of overhead transmission lines; 18,955 circuit miles of underground distribution lines and 28.4 circuit miles of underground transmission lines; and 229 substations with installed rated transformer capacity of 50,586 megavolt amperes. Its Natural Gas Distribution segment engages in regulated intrastate natural gas sale and transportation to approximately 3.2 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company's Competitive Natural Gas Sales and Services segment offers variable and fixed-priced physical natural gas supplies to commercial and industrial customers, and electric and gas utilities; physical delivery services and financial products; natural gas management services; and transportation services. Its Interstate Pipelines segment owns and operates approximately 8,100 miles of gas transmission lines located in Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas; and 6 natural gas storage fields with a combined daily deliverability of approximately 1.2 billion cubic feet (bcf) per day and a combined working gas capacity of approximately 59 bcf. The company Field Services segment operates gas gathering, treating, and processing facilities; and also provides operating and technical services, and remote data monitoring and communication services. CenterPoint Energy, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Locations: Houston, Texas.  Large operation in Minnesota - http://www.centerpointenergy.com/aboutus/companyoverview/whereweserve/

Stock (NYSE: CNP) - Yahoo - http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=CNP

Website: http://www.centerpointenergy.com

Central Vermont Public Service - serves over 158,000 customers in 152 communities.

Board Of Directors: http://www.cvps.com/AboutUs/CorpGov.shtml

Locations: Rutland, Vermont.

People: http://www.cvps.com/AboutUs/OurLeaders.shtml

Website: http://www.cvps.com

Centrica - main operations are in the UK, North America and Europe.  They secure and supply gas and electricity for millions of homes and businesses and offer a distinctive range of home energy solutions and low-carbon products and services.

Board Of Directors: http://www.centrica.com/index.asp?pageid=79

Subsidiaries: Direct Energy; Others outside the US.

Website: http://www.centrica.com

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrica

CMS Energy - through its subsidiaries, operates in energy businesses primarily in Michigan, the United States. It operates in three segments: Electric Utility, Gas Utility, and Enterprises. The Electric Utility segment engages in the generation, purchase, distribution, and sale of electricity. The Gas Utility segment involves in the purchase, transportation, storage, distribution, and sale of natural gas. The Enterprises segment engages in independent power production and electric distribution. The company primarily serves automotive, metal, chemical, food products, and various other industries. As of December 31, 2007, it served 1.8 million electric customers and 1.7 million gas customers.

Locations: Jackson, Michigan.

Subsidiary: Consumers Energy - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Jackson, Michigan.

Website: http://www.cmsenergy.com

Consumers Energy - is one of the nation's largest combination utilities, providing electric and natural gas service to more than 6 million of Michigan's 9.5 million residents, in all 68 counties of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Consumers Energy is the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy, an international corporation that is a leader in energy infrastructure businesses.

Parent: CMS Energy - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page. 

Website: http://www.consumersenergy.com

Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) - is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities with approximately 5.4 million customers. Its more than 5,500 employees are responsible for maintaining more than 82,000 miles of power lines that make up the electric transmission and distribution system in Northern Illinois. ComEd also provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers across Northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population.

Locations: Chicago, Illinois.

Parent: Exelon Corporation - Energy - Integrated Utility Page. Locations: Chicago, Illinois.

Website: http://www.exeloncorp.com/ourcompanies/comed

Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) - through its subsidiaries, provides electric, gas, and steam utility services in the United States. It provides electric service to approximately 3.2 million customers and gas service to approximately 1.1 million customers in New York City and Westchester County, as well as provides steam service to office buildings, apartment houses, and hospitals in parts of Manhattan. The company also provides electric service to approximately 0.3 million customers in southeastern New York and adjacent areas of northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, and gas service to approximately 0.1 million customers in southeastern New York and adjacent areas of eastern Pennsylvania. In addition, Consolidated Edison owns, leases, or operates generating plants and participates in other infrastructure projects; sells electricity directly to delivery-service customers of utilities primarily in the northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions; and provides energy-efficiency services, including the design and installation of lighting retrofits, high-efficiency heating, ventilating and air conditioning equipment, and other energy saving technologies to government and commercial customers. The company sells electricity to industrial and large commercial customers, as well as to residential customers.

Locations: New York, New York.

Subsidiary: Con Edison Development - Energy - Generation Page.

Subsidiary: ConEdison Solutions - Energy - ESCOs Page.

Subsidiary: Orange and Rockland - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page. Locations: Pearl River, New York. (see below).

Stock: NYSE: ED.  Yahoo = http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ed

Constellation Energy - supplies energy products and services to wholesale customers, and retail commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in North America. It operates in three segments: Merchant Energy, Regulated Electric, and Regulated Gas. The Merchant Energy segment engages in the ownership, operation, and maintenance of fossil, nuclear, and hydroelectric generating facilities. It also provides structured transactions and risk management services; gas retail energy products and services; engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and storage of natural gas to large utilities, power generators, wholesale marketers, and retail aggregators; and offers coal sourcing services. As of December 31, 2006, this segment managed approximately 8,680 megawatts of generation capacity. The Regulated Electric segment purchases, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity in Central Maryland. The Regulated Gas segment engages in the purchase, transportation, and sale of natural gas in Central Maryland. The company also designs, constructs, and operates heating, cooling, and cogeneration facilities; and provides home improvements, service electric and gas appliances, service heating, air conditioning, plumbing, electrical, and indoor air quality systems, as well as offers gas marketing services. Constellation Energy was founded in 1906 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Locations: Baltimore, Maryland.

Parent: MidAmerican Energy Holdings - Energy - Integrated Utilities Page.

Stock: NYSE: CEG.  http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ceg

Website: http://www.constellation.com

Dayton Power & Light (DPL) -  through its subsidiary, The Dayton Power and Light Company, operates as a regional electric energy company in the United States. It engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in west central Ohio. As of December 31, 2007, the company distributed electricity to approximately 515,000 retail customers. DPL also provides transmission and wholesale electric service to various municipal customers. It serves automotive, food processing, paper, plastic manufacturing, and defense industries. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Dayton, Ohio.

Locations: Dayton, Ohio.

Stock: NYSE: DPL    Yahoo = http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=DPL

Website: http://www.dplinc.com

Delmarva Power  - is a regulated utility that provides electric and gas service to more than 500,000 customers in Delaware and the rest of the Delmarva Peninsula. Delmarva Power previously operated under the brand name Conectiv Power Delivery.   Subsidiary of Pepco Holdings.

Website: http://www.delmarva.com/home/

Pepco Holdings: http://www.pepcoholdings.com/about/phi/

Direct Energy - part of the Centrica group of companies, one of the largest multi-state providers of retail energy services in North America. The North American operations have grown to more than 5 million residential and commercial customer relationships. Centrica uses Direct Energy, CPL Retail Energy and WTU Retail Energy brands. The company also offers comprehensive energy solutions to more than 60,000 commercial customers. Globally, the Centrica group of companies is a leading provider of energy and other essential services with approximately 32 million customer relationships.

Acquired: Strategic Energy.

Advisory Board: No.

Locations: Toronto, Ontario; Calgary, Alberta; Houston, Texas; Dublin, Ohio.

People: http://www.directenergy.com/EN/AboutUs/Pages/DirectEnergyExecutiveCommittee.aspx

Serving: Duquesne Light.

Website: http://www.directenergy.com

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Energy

DTE Energy Co. -  (NYSE: DTE) is a diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide.  Website.  *

Duke Energy - (NYSE: DUK). Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina.

E.ON U.S. - is a diversified energy services company that is a member of E.ON AG (NYSE: EON; Frankfurt: EOA) family of companies.  One of the U.S.'s lowest-cost energy providers and an industry innovator, we operate in domestic and international markets.

Locations: Louisville, Kentucky.

Subsidiary: Louisville Gas and Electric (LG&E) - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Kentucky.

Subsidiary: Western Kentucky Energy -  Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Kentucky.

Subsidiary: Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Kentucky.

Website: http://www.eon-us.com

Edison International - through its subsidiaries, is a generator and distributor of electric power and an investor in infrastructure and energy assets, including renewable energy. Headquartered in Rosemead, California, Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison—a regulated electric utility—and Edison Mission Group, a competitive power generation business.

Locations: Rosemead, California.

People: http://www.edison.com/ourcompany/management.asp

Subsidiary: Edison Mission Group (EMG) - Energy - Generation Page.  Locations: Irvine, California.

Subsidiary: Midwest Generation - Energy - Generation Page.  Locations: Chicago, Illinois.

Subsidiary: Southern California Edison (SCE) - Energy - Integrated Utility Page.  Locations: Los Angels, California. (below on this page)

Website: http://www.edison.com

Energy Future Holdings - formerly TXU Corp., is a Dallas-based, privately held energy company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries. TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor, EFH's primary businesses, serve the high-growth Texas electricity market, which is one of world's largest and among the nation's most successful competitive markets.

Board Of Directors: http://www.energyfutureholdings.com/about/bod.aspx

Locations: Dallas, Texas.

People: http://www.energyfutureholdings.com/about/leadership.aspx

Subsidiary: Luminant - Energy - Generation Page.  Locations: Dallas, Texas.

Subsidiary: Oncor - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Dallas, Texas.

Subsidiary: TXU Energy - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Dallas, Texas. (below on this page)

Website: http://www.energyfutureholdings.com

Entergy - an integrated energy company, engages primarily in electric power production and retail electric distribution operations in the United States. The company generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric power in Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana, including the City of New Orleans. It also operates a natural gas distribution business. The company owns and operates nuclear power plants located in the northern United States, as well as markets the electric power produced by those plants primarily to wholesale customers. In addition, it operates non-nuclear wholesale assets business, which sells the electric power produced by power plants to wholesale customers. As of December 31, 2007, the company served approximately 2.7 million utility customers. It owned and operated power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity. Entergy Corporation was founded in 1989 and is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Locations: New Orleans, Louisiana.

Stock: NYSE: ETR.  Yahoo = http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ETR

Website: http://www.entergy.com

Entergy Mississippi - Entergy Mississippi serves approximately 432,000 customers in 45 of Mississippi's 82 counties. The customer numbers* break down this way: Residential 361,725; Commercial 63,642; Industrial 3,109; Governmental 4,096.  Entergy companies employ more than 1,800 people in the state. There are over 770 Entergy retirees living in Mississippi.

Locations: Jacksonville, Mississippi.

Website: http://www.entergy-mississippi.com/

Exelon Corporation - a utility services holding company, engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers in northern Illinois. The company also purchases and sells electricity and natural gas on retail basis to customers in southeastern Pennsylvania. It generates electricity through nuclear, fossil, and hydroelectric generation facilities. As of December 31, 2007, Exelon owned generation assets with an aggregate net capacity of 24,808 megawatts. As of the above date, the company distributed electricity to approximately 3.8 million customers in northern Illinois, and approximately 1.6 million customers in southeastern Pennsylvania, as well as natural gas to approximately 480,000 customers in Pennsylvania.

Locations: Chicago, Illinois.

Subsidiary: Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) - Energy - Integrated Utilities Page. Locations: Chicago, Illinois.

Website: http://exeloncorp.com

Yahoo Financial: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=EXC

FirstEnergy Corp. - is a diversified energy company headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, as well as energy management and other energy-related services. Its seven electric utility operating companies comprise the nation's fifth largest investor-owned electric system, serving 4.5 million customers within 36,100 square miles of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; and its generation subsidiaries control more than 14,000 megawatts of capacity. Our Corporate Vision is to become a leading regional energy provider.

Locations: Akron, Ohio.

Stock: NYSE: FE   Yahoo = http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=fe

Subsidiary: Roth Bros. - Energy - ESCOs Page.  Locations: Youngstown, Ohio.

Website: http://www.firstenergycorp.com

Website: http://www.fpl.com

Georgia Power - A subsidiary of the Southern Company (see below).  Website.

Great Plains Energy - through its subsidiaries, engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity in the United States. It generates electricity utilizing coal, nuclear, natural gas, oil, and wind resources. The company also provides retail electricity supply services; and strategic planning, consulting and billing, and scheduling services in the natural gas and electricity markets. As of December 31, 2007, it served approximately 506,000 customers located in 24 counties in western Missouri and eastern Kansas comprising 446,100 residential and 57,600 commercial customers, as well as 2,300 industrials, municipalities, and other electric utilities. Great Plains Energy had approximately 4,000 megawatts of generating capacity.

Locations: Kansas City, Missouri.

Stock: NYSE: GXP.  Yahoo = http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GXP

Subsidiary: KCP&L - Energy - Integrated Utility Page.  Locations: Kansas City, Missouri.  (see below)

Website: http://www.greatplainsenergy.com

Green Mountain Power - is an electric utility owned by Northern New England Energy Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gaz Métro, a leading Québec energy company with a long history of investment in Vermont. Green Mountain Power transmits, distributes and sells electricity and utility construction services in the State of Vermont in a service territory with approximately one quarter of Vermont’s population. It serves approximately 94,000 customers.

Locations: Colchester, Vermont.

Website: http://www.greenmountainpower.com/

Gulf Power - a Southern Company subsidiary - service territory spans the area from the Alabama border on the west to the Apalachicola River on the east; from the Alabama border on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south. Gulf Power serves 418,892 retail customers directly and another 15,281 customers through the wholesale delivery of electricity to one investor-owned electric utility and one municipality. In all, Gulf Power serves customers in 72 towns and communities.

Website: http://www.gulfpower.com

IDACORP -  is a holding company formed in 1998 to enable us to compete in both the regulated and non-regulated worlds of business. This diversified company is built upon a tradition of service, innovation and dedication that has grown at Idaho Power since 1916 when the all-electric utility began serving the people of southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.  Today, we serve our shareowners through the diversified holdings of IDACORP – two non-regulated companies and the regulated utility Idaho Power Company. Through this family of businesses we are involved in: independent power production and affordable housing. We serve our customers through each company’s individual focus.

Subsidiary: Idaho Power - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Boise, Idaho. (below)

Locations: Boise, Idaho.

People: http://www.idacorpinc.com/about/execprof.cfm

Website: http://www.idacorpinc.com/

Idaho Power - is involved in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in a 24,000 square mile area in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon with an estimated population of 982,000.

Locations: Boise, Idaho.

People: http://www.idahopower.com/aboutus/company/profiles/default.htm

Subsidiary of: IDACORP -  Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  (above)

Website: http://www.idahopower.com/

Indianapolis Power and Light (IPL) - provides retail electric service to more than 465,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Indianapolis, Indiana and other central Indiana communities. 

Locations: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Parent: AES Corporate - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Arlington, Virginia.

People: http://www.iplpower.com/ipl/index?page=IPLGeneral&Menu=07010000&DocID=020391742700010dcff29b71007458

Website: http://www.iplpower.com

Integrys Group - through its subsidiaries, operates as a regulated electric and natural gas utility company in the United States and Canada. It generates electricity through coal, natural gas and fuel oil, hydroelectric, nuclear, and wind resources. The company offers electric services to various customers, including municipal utilities, electric cooperatives, energy marketers, other investor-owned utilities, and municipal joint action agencies. Integrys Energy Group also engages in natural gas distribution operations in Michigan and Minnesota. In addition, it offers nonregulated energy supply and services to residential, commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers. As of December 31, 2007, Integrys Energy Group served approximately 485,000 regulated electric utility customers and approximately 1,674,000 regulated natural gas utility customers. The company was founded in 1883. It was formerly known as WPS Resources Corporation and changed its name to Integrys Energy Group in 2007. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Locations: Chicago, Illinois.

Stock: NYSE: TEG.  Yahoo - http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TEG

Subsidiary: Minnesota Energy - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.  Serves locations in Minnesota. (below)

Subsidiaries: Michigan Gas Utilities, North Shore Gas, Upper Peninsula Power Company, Integrys Energy Services, Minnesota Energy Resources, and Wisconsin Public Service.

Subsidiaries: Peoples Gas - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Chicago, Illinois.

Website: http://www.integrysgroup.com

KCP&L - Operating from headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City Power & Light has evolved into a full-service energy provider and resource. The company was founded in 1882 and has become one of the Midwest's most affordable energy suppliers because of our leadership in fuel procurement, plant technology and efficient power production and distribution.  KCP&L services over 500,000 customers in 24 western Missouri and eastern Kansas counties - a service territory of about 4,600 square miles. Delivering that power requires 1,700 miles of transmission lines, more than 10,000 miles of overhead distribution lines, and approximately 3,400 miles of underground distribution lines.  The Company operates nine stations with 26 generating units providing power to our customers and selling into the wholesale market. We have over 4,000 megawatts of efficient generation assets in operation or under construction. Approximately 75 percent of our fuel costs are from lower cost coal. In fall of 2006, the Spearville Wind Generation Facility was brought online to provide 100.5 megawatts of renewable energy.

Locations: Kansas City, Missouri.

Parent: Great Plains Energy - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page. Locations: Kansas City, Missouri.

Website: http://www.kcpl.com

Kentucky Power - provides service to approximately 175,000 customers in all or part of 20 eastern Kentucky counties. Its headquarters is in Frankfort, Ky.  Kentucky Power is part of the American Electric Power system

Locations: Frankfort, Kentucky.

Parent: AEP - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Columbus, Ohio. (above)

Website: http://www.kentuckypower.com

Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) - is a regulated electric utility, based in Lexington, Kentucky, serving customers in 77 Kentucky counties and five counties in Virginia (under the name Old Dominion Power - ODP).

Locations: Kentucky.

Parent: E.ON U.S. - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page. Locations: Louisville, Kentucky.

Website: http://www.eon-us.com/about_ku.asp; http://www.eon-us.com/ku/default.asp

KeySpan - is comprised of regulated natural gas and electric utilities and unregulated subsidiary companies. Find out about each of these companies by clicking below.  Part of National Grid.  Stock: NYSE: NGG.  Stock: LSE: NG.

Louisville Gas and Electric (LG&E) - is a wholly-owned subsidiary of E.ON U.S. LLC, a diversified energy services company that is a member of the E.ON (NYSE: EON; Frankfurt EOA) family of companies. E.ON is the world's largest investor-owned utility company.  Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) is a regulated electric and natural gas utility, based in Louisville, Kentucky, serving Louisville and 16 surrounding counties

Locations: Kentucky.

Parent: E.ON U.S. - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page. Locations: Louisville, Kentucky.

Website: http://www.eon-us.com/about_lge.asp; http://www.eon-us.com/lge/default.asp;

Madison Gas and Electric - MGE Energy, Inc., through its subsidiary, Madison Gas and Electric Company, operates as an electric and gas utility company. It engages in the purchase, generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity to residential, commercial, and industrial customers, as well as to public authorities, and other utilities in Dane County, Wisconsin, including the city of Madison. The company generates electricity from coal, natural gas, fuel oil, and renewable sources. MGE Energy also purchases and distributes natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers, as well as to transportation service and other customers in seven south-central Wisconsin counties, including the city of Madison. As of December 31, 2007, it supplied electric service to approximately 136,000 customers; and natural gas service to approximately 140,000 customers. The company was founded in 1855 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Locations: Madison, Wisconsin.

People: http://www.mge.com/about/who/officers.htm

Stock: (NASDAQ:MGEE)  http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=MGEE

Website: http://www.mge.com   http://www.mgeenergy.com

MGE Energy - See Madison Gas and Electric.

MidAmerican Energy Holdings - is a global leader in the production of energy from diversified fuel sources including geothermal, natural gas, hydroelectric, nuclear, coal and wind. MidAmerican also leads in the supply and distribution of energy in the U.S. and U.K. consumer markets, with approximately 6.7 million electricity and gas customers.

Subsidiaries: MidAmerican Energy Company (see below), PacifiCorp, CE Electric UK, CalEnergy Generation, Kern River Gas Transmission Company and Northern Natural Gas.

Subsidiary: Constellation Energy - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Baltimore, Maryland.

Website: http://www.midamerican.com

MidAmerican Energy Company - is the largest utility in Iowa and is strategically located in the middle of several major markets in the Midwest. We provide service to more than 720,000 electric customers and more than 702,000 natural gas customers in a 10,600 square-mile area from Sioux Falls, S. D. to the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. The largest communities served by MidAmerican are Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City, Waterloo, Iowa City and Council Bluffs, Iowa; the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois; and Sioux Falls, S. D.

Locations: Des Moines, Iowa.

Website: http://www.midamericanenergy.com

Minnesota Energy - The number of customers served by Minnesota Energy Resources has increased from 163,094 in 1996 to 203,348 in 2005, an increase of 40,254 customers or an average growth of 4,473 customers per year.  While the number of customers is significant, the company's most distinguishing features are relative to the scope and scale of the operations. Minnesota Energy Resources covers more than 38,000 sq. miles, 55 counties, and 165 communities. It stretches from Canada to the Iowa border…And from the Dakotas to Wisconsin.

Locations: Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.  Serves locations in Minnesota.

Subsidiary of: Integrys Group - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities Page.  Locations: Chicago, Illinois. (above)

Website: http://www.minnesotaenergyresources.com/

Minnesota Power - a division of ALLETE, provides electricity in a 26,000-square-mile electric service territory located in northeastern Minnesota. Minnesota Power supplies retail electric service to 141,000 customers and wholesale electric service to 16 municipalities.

Locations: Duluth, Minnesota.

Parent: ALLETE - Energy - Integrated Utilities Page.  Locations: Duluth, Minnesota.

Website: http://www.mnpower.com

Mississippi Power - Mississippi Power is an investor-owned electric utility with 456 preferred stockholders. All of our common stock is held by Southern Company, which is owned by 195,261 registered stockholders, of which more than 5,300 live in Mississippi. Mississippi Power has 1,253 employees. Service Territory - Mississippi Power directly serves at retail, most of the cities, towns, and communities within the 23 counties of southeast Mississippi.  We also serve six REA-financed electric cooperatives (Coast EPA, Singing River EPA, Southern Pine EPA, Dixie EPA, Pearl River EPA and East Mississippi EPA) and one municipality (City of Collins) with wholesale electric power which, in turn, they resell to customers in southeast Mississippi.

Locations: Gulfport, Mississippi.

Parent: Southern Company - Energy - Integrated Utilities Page.

Website: http://www.mississippipower.com

Montana-Dakota Utilities - distributes natural gas and provides related value-added products and services in the Northern Great Plains. Generates, transmits and distributes electricity and provides related value-added products and services in the Northern Great Plains.  Website.
 

National Grid - engages in the ownership and operation of regulated electricity and gas infrastructure networks. The company operates in four segments: Transmission, Gas Distribution, Electricity Distribution and Generation, and Non-Regulated Businesses and Other. The Transmission segment owns and operates high-voltage electricity transmission network in England, Wales, Scotland, New York, and New England; a gas national transmission system in Great Britain; electricity interconnectors with Scotland and France; and storage facilities for liquefied natural gas (LNG). The Gas Distribution segment owns and operates gas distribution networks in England, and in upstate New York, New York City, Long Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The Electricity Distribution and Generation segment owns electricity distribution networks in upstate New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, as well as operates and manages electricity transmission and distribution network in Long Island on behalf of the Long Island Power Authority, and as a generator of electricity on Long Island. The Non-Regulated Businesses and Other segment involves in the provision of gas metering services; property management; and operation of LNG import terminal on the Isle of Grain. The company also holds interests in electricity interconnectors, metering services, LNG facilities, and properties in the United Kingdom; and LNG storage and transportation, unregulated gas transmission pipelines, and gas fields and home energy services in the United States. As of March 31, 2008, it served approximately 19 million consumers in the United Kingdom and the United States. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

Board Of Directors: http://www.nationalgrid.com/corporate/About+Us/OurManagementTeam/

Locations: London, England.

Stock: NYSE: NGG.  Yahoo = http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NGG

Subsidiary: Business in Massachusetts - https://www.nationalgridus.com/masselectric/

Subsidiary: Business in Nantucket, Massachusetts - https://www.nationalgridus.com/nantucket/

Subsidiary: Business in New Hampshire - https://www.nationalgridus.com/granitestate/

Subsidiary: Business in New York - https://www.nationalgridus.com/niagaramohawk/ (Niagara Mohawk)

Subsidiary: Business in Rhode Island (Electric) - https://www.nationalgridus.com/narragansett/

Subsidiary: Business in Rhode Island (Gas) - http://www.nationalgridus.com/rigas/

Subsidiary: KeySpan - Energy - Investor Owned Utilities. (see above)

Business: Transmission Business - http://www.nationalgridus.com/transmission/index.asp

Website: http://www.nationalgrid.com; http://www.ngtgroup.com

New Jersey Resources Corporation (NJR) - is an energy services holding company providing retail and wholesale energy services to customers in New Jersey and in states from the Gulf Coast to New England, and Canada. The Company manages its business through operating subsidiaries, which are combined into three business segments: Natural Gas Distribution, Energy Services and Retail and Other Operations. The Natural Gas Distribution segment is conducted through New Jersey Natural Gas, a local natural gas distribution company that provides regulated energy service to customers in New Jersey and participates in the off-system sales and capacity release markets. Activities of the Energy Services segment are conducted by NJR Energy Services, a provider of unregulated fuel and capacity management and wholesale marketing services. The Retail and Other Operations segment include the activities of the following subsidiaries: NJR Retail Holdings, NJR Capital Services and NJR Service.

Website: http://www.njresources.com

Location: Wall, New Jersey

NiSource - is a Fortune 500 company engaged in natural gas transmission, storage and distribution, as well as electric generation, transmission and distribution. NiSource operating companies deliver energy to 3.8 million customers located within the high- demand energy corridor stretching from the Gulf Coast through the Midwest to New England.

Locations: Merrillville, Indiana.

Stock: (NYSE: NI) http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ni

Subsidiary: Bay State Gas
Subsidiary: Columbia Gas of Kentucky
Subsidiary: Columbia Gas of Maryland
Subsidiary: Columbia Gas of Ohio
Subsidiary: Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania
Subsidiary: Columbia Gas of Virginia
Subsidiary: Columbia Gas Transmission
Subsidiary: Columbia Gulf Transmission
Subsidiary: NiSource Retail Services
Subsidiary: Crossroads Pipeline
Subsidiary: Energy USA-TPC
Subsidiary: Kokomo Gas and Fuel
Subsidiary: NIFL
Subsidiary: NIPSCO
Subsidiary: NiSource Energy Technologies
Subsidiary: Northern Utilities

Northeast Utilities - a public utility holding company, engages in the energy delivery business for residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and western Massachusetts. The company operates through three segments: Electric Distribution, Natural Gas Distribution, and Electric Transmission. The Electric Distribution segment engages in the generation, purchase, transmission, delivery, and sale of electricity. As of December 31, 2007, it furnished retail franchise electric service to approximately 1.2 million customers in 149 cities and towns in Connecticut; 491,000 retail customers in 211 cities and towns in New Hampshire; and 206,000 retail customers in 59 cities and towns in western Massachusetts. The Natural Gas Distribution segment operates a natural gas distribution system in Connecticut and provides gas supply to residential customers for heating, hot water, and cooking needs, as well as to commercial and industrial customers; and offers gas transportation services to commercial and industrial customers. It serves approximately 200,000 customers. The Electric Transmission segment enables utilities, generation owners, and marketers to plan and operate generation and transmission facilities, as well as provides transmission services.

Locations: Berlin (HQ), Connecticut.

Website: http://www.nu.com

Northwestern Energy - Our utility operations consist of regulated electric and natural gas distribution, transmission, energy supply and nonregulated electric operations.  In addition, we are pursuing electric transmission and generation opportunities.

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