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| x Solar power |
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Solar energy, radiant light and heat from the Sun, has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar radiation, along with secondary solar-powered resources such as wind and wave power,...
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| x Energy conservation |
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Energy conservation is the practice of decreasing the quantity of energy used. It may be achieved through efficient energy use, in which case energy use is decreased while achieving a similar outcome, or by reduced consumption of energy services....
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| x Arbusto Energy |
Arbusto Energy (sometimes referred to as Arbusto Oil) was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1977, for former US President George W. Bush by a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry...
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| x Reliant Energy |
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Reliant Energy, Inc. (NYSE: RRI), based in Houston, Texas, United States, is a non-utility, retail and wholesale electricity provider. Reliant is headquartered at 1000 Main Street in Downtown Houston.
In Texas, Reliant services nearly 1.8 million...
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| x Husky Energy |
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Husky Energy Inc. (TSX: HSE) is a large Canadian company which is integrated energy company based in Calgary, Alberta. Focusing on petroleum and natural gas exploration, production, refining and retail sales, the company primarily conducts...
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| x Esprit Energy Trust |
Esprit Energy Trust (TSX symbol EEE.UN) (formerly Esprit Exploration) was a Calgary, Alberta based oil and gas trust. It was founded in 1988, and merged with Pengrowth Energy Trust on October 2, 2006.
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| x Atomic Energy of Canada Limited |
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Atomic Energy of Canada Limited or AECL is a Canadian federal Crown corporation with the responsibility of managing Canada's national nuclear energy research and development program, including the advancement and support of CANDU reactor technology...
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| x Progress Energy Inc |
Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 500 energy company with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $9 billion in annual revenues. Progress Energy includes two major electric utilities that serve...
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| x British Energy |
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British Energy plc is the UK's largest electricity generator by volume. It is primarily an operator of formerly state-owned nuclear power stations, owning eight nuclear power stations and one coal fired power station. The company has been a...
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| x Kinder-Morgan Energy Partners |
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP) (KMEP) is a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. which owns or operates petroleum product, natural gas, and carbon dioxide pipelines, related storage facilities, terminals, power plants and retail natural...
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| x DONG Energy |
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DONG Energy is Denmark's leading energy company.
The Danish state company Dansk Naturgas A/S was founded in 1972 to manage resources in the Danish sector of the North Sea. After some years, the company was renamed to Dansk Olie og Naturgas A/S (DONG...
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| x Puget Sound Energy |
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Puget Sound Energy (PSE) is an energy company providing electrical power and natural gas in the Puget Sound region of the northwest United States. It serves electrical power to more than 1 million customers in Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap,...
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| x Xcel Energy |
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Xcel Energy, Inc. (NYSE: XEL) is a public utility company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. Primary services are electricity and natural...
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| x Reliance Energy |
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Reliance Infrastructure, formerly known as Reliance Energy and prior to that as Bombay Suburban Electric Supply (BSES), is a company under the Reliance - Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group banner, one of India's largest conglomerates. The company is...
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| x Unified Energy System |
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The Unified Energy System (OAO RAO UES of Russia; Russian: ЕЭС России or Russian: Единая Энергетическая Система) was an electric power holding company in Russia. It owned about 70% of Russia's installed electric capacity, 96% of high-voltage grid...
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| x Duke Energy |
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Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an energy company with assets in the United States, Canada and Latin America. It was founded by James Buchanan Duke.
Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Duke Energy owns and...
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| x Suncor Energy |
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Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX: SU, NYSE: SU) is a Canadian integrated energy company, based in Calgary, Alberta. It has specialized on production of synthetic crude from oil sands. Suncor ranks number 254 on the Forbes Global 2000 list.
Suncor markets...
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| x Chesapeake Energy |
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Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) is a producer of natural gas in the United States and according to their 3Q 2007 report, is the largest independent producer, third overall (including majors) and the most active driller of new wells in the US. Their...
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| x CMS Energy |
CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS) is a public utility supplying electric power and natural gas to most of Michigan. Its headquarters are located in Jackson, Michigan. The company has operated since 1890.
Its two principal subsidiaries are Consumers Energy and...
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| x Direct Energy |
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Direct Energy is a retailer of energy and energy services. The company was founded in 1986. With over 5 million customers in Canada and the United States, it is the largest energy and home services retailer in North America. The current President...
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| x Constellation Energy |
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Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG), headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, generates, trades, supplies, and distributes energy. The company operates over 35 power plants in 11 states (mainly Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, and...
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FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), 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...
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| x Atmos Energy |
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Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE: ATO), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the largest distributor of natural gas in the United States, serving 3.2 million customers nationwide. Atmos acquired TXU's natural gas and pipeline holdings in 2004. The...
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| x Stirling Energy Systems |
Stirling Energy Systems is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company which develops equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electrical generating systems. Stirling Energy Systems in conjunction with utility company...
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| x Allegheny Energy |
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Allegheny Energy (NYSE: AYE) is a traditional public utility based in the Pittsburgh suburb of Greensburg. It services communities in Western Pennsylvania, Western Maryland, Northern West Virginia, and Northwest Virginia. The company is the region's...
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| x Cambridge Energy Research Associates |
Cambridge Energy Research Associates, also known as CERA, is a consulting company that specializes in advising governments and private companies on energy markets, geopolitics, industry trends, and strategy. The company was founded in 1983 by...
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| x Talisman Energy |
Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX: TLM) is one of Canada's largest petroleum SB companies. It was originally part of British Petroleum, known as BP Canada, but in 1992 it became an independent company named Talisman Energy. Based in Calgary, Alberta,...
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| x The Energy Group |
The Energy Group plc was a British power generator and distributor. After it was demerged from Hanson plc in 1996 it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but it was acquired by Texas Utilities in...
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| x DTE Energy |
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DTE Energy Co. (NYSE: DTE) is a Detroit, Michigan-based utility incorporated in 1995 involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide.
DTE Energy's largest operating subsidiaries are Detroit Edison, an...
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Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN), is the largest U.S.-based independent natural gas and oil producer. The company's operations are focused primarily in the United States and Canada. However, Devon also explores for and produces oil in select...
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| x Cairn Energy |
Cairn Energy plc (LSE: CNE) is an independent oil exploration and extraction company. Its headquarters are in Edinburgh, Scotland and it is listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is currently a member of the FTSE 100 Index, having fluctuated...
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| x CenterPoint Energy |
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CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP) is a Fortune 500 electric and natural gas utility serving several markets in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. It was formerly known as Reliant Energy (from which it...
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| x Consumers Energy |
Consumers Energy is a public utility that provides natural gas and electricity to more than 6 million of Michigan's 10 million residents. It serves customers in all 68 of the state’s Lower Peninsula counties.
The company was founded in 1886 as...
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| x Scottish and Southern Energy |
Scottish & Southern Energy plc (SSE) is an energy company founded in 1998 following a merger of equals between Scottish Hydro Electric and Southern Electric. It is headquarterd in Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
It now incorporates the...
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| x Panda Energy International |
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Panda Energy International, Inc. is an American privately-held company that constructs, maintains and operates environmentally friendly power plants, with the name of the company a reference to the endangered Giant Panda. The company is...
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| x Consol Energy |
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CONSOL Energy Inc. is the largest producer of high-BTU bituminous coal in the United States. It is one of the US's largest coal mining companies, along with Peabody Energy and Arch Coal. The company has some 4.5 billion tons of proved reserves,...
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| x NRG Energy |
NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG), headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, is a wholesale power generation company founded in 1989, which has an ownership interest in 47 power generating facilities around the world. The diverse portfolio of facilities, are...
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| x Reedy Creek Energy Services |
Reedy Creek Energy Services (RCES) is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. It provides electric power to the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), which specifically covers Walt Disney World outside of Orlando, Florida, by...
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| x Austin Energy |
Austin Energy is the public utility providing electrical power service to a 421-square-mile (1,090 km) area including Austin, Texas and parts of the surrounding area in Travis and Williamson counties. It has been owned by the City of Austin since...
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| x Renova Energy |
Renova Energy plc is an ethanol production, distribution and marketing company based in the Rocky Mountain region of the USA. Its headquarters are located in London and the company is currently listed on the Alternative Investments Market, a...
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| x Peabody Energy |
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Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE: BTU), previously Peabody Coal Company, is the largest private-sector coal company in the world The company is headquartered in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri.
In 2006, Peabody sold over 247 million tons of coal. The...
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Origin is an Australian energy company headquartered in Sydney.
Origin Energy was formed in February 2000 as a result of the demerger of Boral Limited an Australian conglomerate. Boral had interests in energy and building and construction materials....
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| x Prisma Energy International |
Prisma Energy International Inc., was a former subsidiary of Enron Corporation, formed in 2003 to own and manage the majority of Enron's overseas assets, formerly known as "Enron International". Prior to its official organization, Prisma was...
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| x Sempra Energy |
Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) is a Fortune 500 San Diego, California-based energy services holding company that was founded in 1998 and is a major participant in natural gas markets. Sempra Energy’s primary subsidiaries are Southern California Gas...
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| x European Energy eXchange |
European Energy Exchange AG, Germany's energy exchange, is the leading energy exchange in Central Europe.
The European Energy Exchange is located in Leipzig. Preceding companies were LPX Leipzig Power Exchange, located in Leipzig and European Energy...
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| x EDF Energy Customers |
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EDF Energy is a vertically integrated energy company in the United Kingdom, with operations spanning electricity generation, electricity distribution and the sale of gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom. It...
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| x Stream Energy |
Stream Energy is a retail electricity and natural gas firm active in the Texas and Georgia deregulated energy markets and headquartered within the InfoMart building in Dallas. Stream Energy focuses primarily upon recruiting (on a network marketing...
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Japan Energy Corporation (株式会社ジャパンエナジー, Kabushiki-gaisha Japan Enajī) is a Japanese petroleum company, which is a subsidiary wholly owned by Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc (新日鉱ホールディングス株式会社, Shin-Nikkō Hōrudingsu Kabushiki-gaisha). Nippon Mining...
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| x Suzlon Energy |
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Suzlon Energy (BSE: 532667) is a wind power company in India. In terms of market share, the company is the largest wind turbine manufacturer in Asia (and the fifth largest worldwide). In terms of net worth, it is the world's most valuable wind power...
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| x Gexa Energy |
Gexa Corporation (also known as Gexa Energy) is located in Houston, Texas and is a retail electricity provider (a “REP”) active in the deregulated Texas electricity market.
Gexa Energy sells electric energy and provides the related billing, customer...
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| x Cirro Energy |
Cirro Energy is a retail electric provider (REP) based in Richardson, Texas that delivers electrical service and customer service to tens of thousands of power customers throughout the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) distribution grid...
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| x Energy Transfer Partners |
Energy Transfer Partners is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. This company allows investors participate in the growth of the energy economy.
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| x Superior Energy Services |
Superior Energy Services is an oil and gas company based in Harvey, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, with many other locations around the world.
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| x Wisconsin Energy Corporation |
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Wisconsin Energy Corporation (NYSE: WEC) is a company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that provides electricity and natural gas throughout Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The company also has several non-regulated, non-utility branches....
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| x Energy East |
Energy East is a Fortune 500 company that serves 2.9 million public utility customers with energy, primarily electricity and natural gas.
In 2007 the Spanish electrical company Iberdrola agreed to purchase Energy East. The deal closed on September...
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| x MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company |
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company is a holding company controlled by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. David L Sokol is Midamerican's president and CEO since 1991.
MidAmerican holds the following companies:
On September 18, 2008, MidAmerican...
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| x MidAmerican Energy Company |
MidAmerican Energy Company is an energy company based in Des Moines, Iowa. Its service area is focused primarily in central and western Iowa, and wholly encompassed by the territory of the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator....
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| x Energy Northwest |
Energy Northwest is a municipal corporation in Washington state tasked with the building and operation of power plants. It was organized in 1957 as the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) to build a network of nuclear power plants...
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| x Renewable Energy Corporation |
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The Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) is a solar power company with headquarters in Norway. REC produces silicon materials for photovoltaics (PV) applications and multicrystalline wafers, as well as solar cells and modules. REC's business...
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| x Solid Energy |
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Solid Energy is the largest coal mining company in New Zealand and is a state owned enterprise of the New Zealand Government.
The company was formed from the former government department State Coal Mines. It was then established as a state owned...
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