Aem (Azienda Energetica
Municipale), Milan
Aem supplies electricity of half the private dwellings and
commercial and industrial firms in Milan. The Authority also
supplies electricity for the tram, trolleybus and underground
railway services, and operating the mains water supply and the
city's other public services. Aem is also responsible for
managing the public lighting system and the entire traffic light
system in Milan.
American Electric Power
American Electric Power is based in Columbus, Ohio, and
operates in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia,
Virginia and Tennessee. They provide consulting, engineering,
and technical services and help companies manage electrical
load, monitor power quality and advise on new
electro-technologies that can better manage business. AEP can
also provide capital for joint ventures, invest in international
and domestic co-generation and independent power facilities and
privatizations of generation and transmission systems.
Aspen Electric Department
The City of Aspen, Colorado operates an electric utility
which supplies power to the citizens of Aspen. A portion (about
25-40%) of the power is produced by the City's Ruedi
hydroelectric facility. The balance of the power is purchased
from other sources.
Baltimore Gas and Electric
BG&E owns and operates 10 electric generating plants in
Central Maryland including the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power
Plant; is part-owner of Keystone, Connemaugh and Safe Harbor
generating plants in Pennsylvania; manages assets of $6 billion;
and serves 1.1 million electric customers in 2,300 square miles
in Baltimore City and nine Central Maryland counties.
BC Hydro
British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority is the third
largest electric utility in Canada, BC Hydro serves 1.4 million
customers in an area containing over 92 percent of British
Columbia's population. Between 45,000 and 50,000 gigawatt-hours
of electricity are generated annually, depending upon prevailing
water levels, with more than 70 percent produced by major
hydroelectric generating stations of the Columbia and Peace
rivers. Electricity is delivered to customers through an
interconnected system of over 70,000 kilometers of transmission
and distribution lines.
BC Hydro maintains an excellent
Utility Industry E-Mail, Address Resource List.
This list is broken down by geographic location, and by type of
company (utility, manufacturer, consultant, etc.)
Boone REMC
Boone REMC, located in Lebanon, Indiana is a customer-owned
electric utility serving over 6,500 customers in Boone County
and parts of Montgomery, Hendricks, Clinton and Hamilton
counties. This server includes information on Boone's geothermal
program, DSM water heater program, and surge protection
offering.
Brooklyn Union
Brooklyn Union is an energy company primarily engaged in the
distribution of natural gas to the New York City boroughs of
Brooklyn and Staten Island, and in two-thirds of the borough of
Queens, a service area of 187 square miles and a population of
four million. The fifth largest natural-gas distribution company
in the United States, Brooklyn Union has approximately 1.1
million customers, of which more than 1,082,000 are residential.
The company has other energy-related investments in gas
exploration and production, and in energy services, including
cogeneration and pipeline transportation.
The Busch Cogeneration Facility
Initiated by the Utilities Department of Rutgers University
in New Brunswick, NJ, the Busch Cogeneration Facility is the
primary provider of thermal and electrical energy to both the
Busch and Livingston campuses. Here, high temperature hot water
is produced for use in heating, localized steam generation, and
absorption cooling, and over 13 million watts of electricity are
generated for use on the Rutgers campus. It is owned and
operated by the State of New Jersey along with its sister plant
at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, facility
operations and maintenance are managed directly by the Rutgers
Utilities department.
This site provides not only general information about
cogeneration, but also the facility's
solar
dual fuel turbine,
emissions monitoring system,
heat
recovery system,
injection water purification system, the
electrical distribution, and their
control
and data systems.
Central Illinois
Public Service Company (CIPS)
CIPSCO Incorporated, through its utility subsidiary Central
Illinois Public Service Company (CIPS), supplies electricity and
natural gas services in a 20,000-square-mile region of central
and southern Illinois. A second subsidiary, CIPSCO Investment
Company (CIC), directs the Company's non-utility investments,
including leases, securities and energy projects. CIPSCO is
committed to enhancing its core electric and natural gas
business while diversifying earnings through non-utility
investments.
City of Austin, Electric Utility Department
The City of Austin Electric Utility Department server
contains information on the electric utility commission and on
system load shapes.
City of Palo Alto, Utilities Department
The Utilities Department is responsible for administering and
operating the city-owned utilities services including electric,
gas, water and wastewater services. The Department provides
engineering, maintenance, construction, and support services
necessary to supply safe, reliable, and competitively priced
utilities to the community.
The following documents are available: reference booklet for
customers of Palo Alto Municipal Utilities; electric service
requirements; air conditioning efficiency program; and a water
system flushing schedule.
Consolidated Edison
Company of New York
Con Edison supplies electric service in all five boroughs of
New York and most of Westchester County, a service area with a
population of more than 8 million. Con Edison also supplies gas
in Manhattan, The Bronx, and parts of Queens and Westchester,
and steam in part of Manhattan.
Delmarva Power & Light
Delmarva Power is an investor-owned
electric and gas utility serving portions of the
Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Peninsula.
DQE
DQE is an energy services holding company. Duquesne Light
Company is its principal subsidiary. Duquesne Light is engaged
in the production, transmission, distribution and sale of
electrical energy, serving approximately 580,000 customers
within its 800 square mile southwestern Pennsylvania service
territory. In addition, the company sells electricity to other
utilities.
DQE's other subsidiaries include Duquesne Enterprises and
Montauk. Duquesne Enterprises owns Allegheny Development
Corporation and Property Ventures, Ltd., and has substantial
equity interests in Chester Environmental and Exide Electronics.
These companies are involved in initiatives related to the core
business, including energy services, environmental services,
power quality equipment and real estate investment. Montauk
makes both short and long term investments for the enterprise,
and provides a source of capital for these other subsidiaries.
Duke Power Company
Duke Power Company is one of the United State's largest
electric utilities. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Duke Power
serves approximately 1.7 million customers in the Piedmont
region of North Carolina and South Carolina.
Duke Power operates three nuclear stations, eight coal-fired
stations and 38 hydroelectric stations. For the past two
decades, our system of coal plants has been ranked as the most
efficient in the United States by Electric Light & Power, an
electric utility magazine. The three nuclear stations operated
by Duke are consistently among the 10 most efficient multi-unit
nuclear stations in the United States, according to data
compiled by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Last year
Duke's plants generated 86 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity
and its 10 business units produced $4.5 billion in revenues.
Eastern Utilities Associates
Eastern Utilities Associates (EUA) is a diversified energy
services company whose shares are traded on the New York and
Pacific Stock Exchanges. Its subsidiaries are engaged in the
generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity;
energy-related services such as energy management and
cogeneration; and promoting conservation and efficient use of
energy.
Edison Electric Institute
(EEI)
The EEI home page is currently under construction. The
Institute's online information service -- EEI Online -- is
accessible on a subscription basis. For questions, please send
email to: reganpcm@eei.org.
The Electricity
Corporation of New Zealand Limited (ECNZ)
The Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Limited (ECNZ) is
a State-Owned Enterprise and is the country’s largest generator
and wholesaler of electricity. During the 1994/95 financial
year, ECNZ produced 95% of the 32 000 GWh generated in the
country. A benchmarking exercise undertaken by the Boston
Consulting Group for ECNZ gave the Corporation a world class
rating for low cost production of energy.
The
Electricity Journal and Daily
More information for this site is listed under
Non-Profit
Organizations/Professional Associations.
Electric Power Research
Institute
The mission of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
is to discover, develop, and deliver high value technological
advances through networking and partnership with the electricity
industry. EPRI maintains links to the organizations of interest
to the electric power industry.
This site also contains information about the mission and
services provided by EPRI's six business groups:
Customer Systems,
Environment,
Generation,
Nuclear Power,
Power Delivery,
and
Strategic Development.
Eletrobras
Eletrobras is responsible for implementing Brazilian electric
power policy planning, financing, coordinating and supervising
Brazil's programs for the construction, operation and expansion
of electric generation, transmission and distribution systems,
as well as for energy conservation. Eletrobras is responsible
for approximately 57 per cent of electric energy production in
Brazil in 1994 ( including 50 per cent of the gross generation
of Itaipu). This energy is sold to utility companies
responsible for power supply to final consumers. Eletrobras,
also, owns 80% of the country's transmission lines (a total of
117,000 km).
Eletrobras also implements
PROCEL: The National Program for Electricity Conservation.
PROCEL's objectives are to promote the rational utilization of
electricity, to provide the same product and/or service for a
lower energy input through the elimination of waste and
increased efficiency, and to secure an overall reduction in
costs and investment needs.
Energy Central
Energy Central is an information service for electric power
professionals. There are four levels of access to Energy
Central: Basic (free and open to all), Registered User (free and
open to electric power professionals), News Subscriber (fee
based), and Gold Member (fee based). For the Basic users, Energy
Central provides a calendar of conferences and publications
lists. Registered users have access to daily news services as
well as utility information.
Enermodal Engineering,
Ltd.
Enermodal Engineering is a consulting firm committed to
improving the energy and resource efficiency of buildings and
building products. Their primary activities include:
sustainable design, the
evaluation of environmentally-appropriate technologies,
building
inspection and energy audits,
technology transfer, and
the
evaluation of windows, doors, and walls. Enermodal also
works on
Building Energy Analysis and provides information online
about some of their computer simulation software, which includes
ENERPASS
(building energy and thermal comfort analysis), and
FRAME
(complex heat transfer analysis of window frames, doors and wall
systems).
Green Mountain Power
Corporation
Green Mountain Power Corporation is an investor-owned
electric utility providing retail electric service to
approximately thirty percent of Vermont and wholesale electric
service to a number of utilities around New England.
Hawaiian Electric Industries
Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. is a diversified holding
company providing essential services to the people of Hawaii.
Its core businesses are electricity and banking. Other smaller
subsidiaries are engaged in maritime freight transportation and
residential real estate development. Hawaiian Electric Company,
Inc. and its subsidiaries, Maui Electric Company, Limited and
Hawaii Electric Light Company, Inc., provide electricity to 95%
of the state's 1.2 million residents. The utilities serve more
than 375,000 residential, commercial and industrial accounts on
the islands of Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Lanai and Molokai.
Hong Kong Electric
Company, Ltd. (HEC)
The Hong Kong Electric Company was founded in 1889 and
supplies electricity to Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island of
Hong Kong. HEC provides on-line information about their
ISO 9002
certification and services provided in order to meet the
necessary requirements. This site also provides background on
the Hong Kong
Laboratory Accreditation Scheme which performs routine
reassessments of the HEC system.
Hydro-Québec
In 1994, Hydro-Québec supplied 158.2 TWh of electricity to
roughly 3.3 million customer accounts. Sales outside of Québec
alone accounted for 19.2 TWh. Overall electricity sales rose by
3,8% in 1994 compared with the previous year. Hydro-Québec's
revenue for the past year totaled $7.267 billion and its net
profit stood at $667 million.
IBERDROLA (Spain)
IBERDROLA is the third largest investor-owned electric
utility in the European Union, and the leader in Hydroelectric
Generation Capacity, accounting for 10% of the European Union's
overall hydroelectric power capacity. IBERDROLA is Spain's
largest investor-owned electric utility, serving 16 million
people and covering 40% of the nation's territory. IBERDROLA
supplies 50% of the available hydroelectric capacity and 42% of
nuclear power capacity in Spain.
Iceland State Electricity
Contact information for Iceland State Electricity. Much of
the server is in Icelandic.
Indianapolis Power &
Light Co. (IPL)
IPALCO Enterprises, Inc., with more than $2 billion in
assets, is a multi-state energy company providing a variety of
energy products and services. IPALCO's principal subsidiary is
Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL), which has been
supplying electricity and steam in central Indiana for more than
66 years. IPL has a production capacity of more than 2800
megawatts and its rates for electric and steam service are among
the lowest in the United States among investor-owned utilities.
IPL's district steam heating system began operation in 1889 and
is now the second largest district heating system in the United
States.
Jacksonville Electric
Authority
The Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) owns, operates and
manages the electric system established by the City of
Jacksonville in 1895. Compared to other municipally-owned
electric utilities, the JEA is Florida's largest and the eighth
largest in the United States. The JEA serves approximately
317,000 customers in Jacksonville and parts of three adjacent
counties.
Kansai Electric Power
Co. Inc. (KEPCO)
KEPCO's service area covers the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and
Kobe, providing about 18 percent of the Japan's total electric
power.
John H. Leavey Mfg.
Inc.
John H. Leavey Mfg. Inc sells small tools and accessories for
the gas and electric industry. An on-line product catalog is
available, as well as extensive links to other gas and electric
sites.
Lower Colorado River
Authority (LCRA)
The LCRA supplies electricity to more than 800,000 Texans
through 44 wholesale customers, including 11 electric
cooperatives and 33 cities. It also serves numerous water
customers, including cities, the rice-growing industry and
municipal utility districts.
MVV
MVV supplies more than one million people in Mannheim and in
the outlying region with water; and operates a waste-to-energy
plant and the local mass-transit system in Mannheim. MVV's
advanced technical, ecological, and commercial know-how has
lately been made available to customers throughout the world
within the framework of consulting services. A new business
sector, energy packages, rounds out a program of services. These
packages include end-use heat and cooling solutions. Information
on this server is available in
German,
English and
French.
Newfoundland Power
Newfoundland Power has capital expenditures exceeding $35
million yearly, a payroll of more than $45 million and a
workforce of more than 850 men and women.
North American Electric
Reliability Council (NERC)
NERC maintains several data bases of electric utility
industry information. These data are used in analyses for NERC
committees and subgroups and makes them available for use by
others. Data release is based on guidelines approved by electric
utilities and NERC. Two of these data bases are available
online: Generating
Availability Data System (GADS)
and the
IPP Unit Availability
Data Base.
NERC also provides technical services provides including
training and leadership in generating unit data base design,
data collection procedures, and unit performance assessment.
More than 200 "special requests" are performed each year for
utilities, manufacturers, architect-engineers, and others.
pc-G.A.R., an automated software version of NERC's Generating
Availability Report, is available in demo format online. NERC
provides data and support services to manufacturers of major
components of electric generating units such as the boiler and
steam turbines.
Northeast Utilities
Northeast Utilities is an electric utility holding company
that serves about 1.7 million customers through its operating
subsidiaries in Connecticut, western Massachusetts and New
Hampshire. This site provides a wide variety of utility-related
information including investors reports, energy market
statistics, energy news, and economic development efforts.
North
Power
North Power is the sixth largest electricity distribution
authority in New South Wales, providing power to more than
142,000 people in an area of 11,763 square kilometers.
Northwest Iowa Power
Cooperative
Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative (NIPCO) is a wholesale
electric generation and transmission cooperative owned by 9
rural electric cooperatives and one full-service municipal
electric cooperative. NIPCO also provides transmission service
to another municipal cooperative providing electricity to 13
Iowa towns. Together, the NIPCO Power Network serves business,
industry, farms and homes in a 6,500 square mile area of western
Iowa.
NRG Energy, Inc.
NRG was established in 1989 and is wholly-owned by Northern
States Power Company ("NSP"). NRG is focused on the acquisition,
development and operation of, and ownership of interests in,
independent power production and cogeneration facilities,
thermal energy production and transmission facilities and
resource recovery facilities. They provide information on their
capabilities which include:
gas-fired
projects,
biomass fuels, domestic and international
coal
projects,
hydroelectric facilities,
landfill
methane, and
thermal
energy.
Oglethorpe Power Corporation
Oglethorpe Power Corporation is an electric generation and
transmission cooperative (G&T) incorporated in 1974 and
headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. The corporation
provides wholesale electric service on a not-for-profit basis to
39 of Georgia's 42 Electric Membership Corporations. These 39
member systems serve more than 2.3 million people, living in
about two-thirds of the state's land area. Oglethorpe Power is
the largest G&T in the United States in terms of operating
revenue, assets, kilowatt-hour sales and, through its member
systems, consumers served.
Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
All available information on this server is in Japanese.
PacifiCorp (Utah Power &
Light)
This site is a restricted access server. PacifiCorp maintains
the System
Transmission Bulletin Board
to provide information about
the availabilities of transmission services from PacifiCorp to
the general public.
Public
Utilities Department, College Station, Texas
The Public Utilities Department is responsible for providing
electric, water and sewer service to the city of College
Station, Texas. It constructs, maintains and services all
utility lines to the customer service connection.
PECO Energy
PECO Energy is a publicly owned and regulated utility with
more than 195,000 stockholders providing electric service to
more than 1.5 million customers within the 2,340 square miles of
service territory in Pennsylvania. PECO Energy also provides
natural gas to more than 379,00 customers. With $15 billion in
assets, $4 billion in annual revenues and 1.5 million customers,
PECO Energy is one of the largest utilities in the United
States.
The Power Marketing
Association
The Power Marketing Association (PMA) was formed to serve as
an association and institute for the benefit of its members:
(independent power marketers, regulated utilities and
unregulated utility affiliates), who are engaged in the
marketing and brokering of electric power. PMA membership
benefits include: advocacy groups, information services,
in-house training, free publications, networking opportunities
and free admission to PMA conferences/seminars.
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District provides electric
service for an area covering 900 square miles within and
surrounding California's capital city. This gopher site is
intended solely to provide an additional way of accessing the
1995 Integrated Resource Plan (Discussion Draft) to SMUD
customer-owners.
Salt River Project
Salt River Project is a major multi-purpose reclamation
project comprising two principal operating groups: the Salt
River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, a
political subdivision of the state of Arizona; and the Salt
River Valley Water Users' Association, a private corporation.
The District provides electricity to more than 580,000
customers in the Phoenix area. It operates or participates in
seven major power plants and numerous other generating stations,
including thermal, nuclear and hydroelectric sources.
San Diego Gas & Electric
Company
San Diego Gas & Electric is an investor-owned gas and
electric utility company, providing electric service to
1,138,870 customers in San Diego County and the southern portion
of Orange County, and gas service to 695,761 customers in San
Diego County.
Saskatchewan Power Corporation
Saskatchewan Power Corporation (SaskPower) is a leader in the
field of electricity generation, transmission and distribution.
Located in Saskatchewan, Canada - virtually in the middle of
North America - SaskPower serves over 400,000 customers in a
650,000 square kilometer region (an area almost twice the size
of Germany). It employs 2500 people and operates 14 generating
plants, using a mix of coal, hydro, and natural gas energy
sources. SaskPower has assets in excess of $3 billion
(Canadian).
Seattle City Light
Seattle City Light is the nation's seventh largest public
power system serving more than 330,000 customers with a service
area of 131.3 square miles including the City of Seattle (85%)
and seven adjacent municipalities (15%).
Southern
California Edison Corporation - SCECorp
SCEcorp is the parent corporation of Southern California
Edison Company and two principal non-utility companies, Mission
Energy Company and Mission First Financial. Headquartered in
Rosemead, California, SCEcorp has assets of more than $22
billion.
Southern Company
The Southern Company is the parent firm of five electric
utilities: Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi
Power, and Savannah Electric. Other subsidiaries are Southern
Company Services, Southern Development and Investment Group,
Southern Electric International, and Southern Nuclear.
The Southern Company provides energy to a 120,000-square mile
service territory spanning most of Georgia and Alabama,
southeastern Mississippi, and the panhandle region of Florida,
an area with a population of about 11 million. Through its
Southern Electric International unit, the Southern Company also
supplies electricity to customers in a number of other states
and in Argentina, Chile, the Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago.
TELLUS,
Inc.
Puget Sound Power and Light Company established TELLUS, Inc.
in 1987 to use their utility experience to deliver the
integrated, utility operations and engineering solutions. TELLUS
has developed software and specifications to complete the
panorama of features required in an integrated GIS solution.
TELLUS runs programs in demand side management with their DARE
program and their award winning conservation program. TELLUS
provides products and services designed for production work.
Tenaga Nasional Berhad
Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), a former Malaysian government
electricity utility, handles the generation, transmission and
distribution of electricity in Peninsular Malaysia. TNB is
regulated under the Electricity Supply Department under the
Ministry of Energy, Telecommunications and Posts, Malaysia.
Tokyo Electric Power
Company (TEPCO)
TEPCO is one of nine Japanese electric utilities and the
world's largest privately operated electric power company
meeting as much as nearly one-third of Japan's total electricity
requirements. Currently, the company is supplying about 230
billion kWh of electric energy annually to more than 23 million
customers in its 39,000 km2 service area.
Tokyo
Gas Company
All available information on this server is in Japanese. The
English version is not yet available.
TransAlta Corporation
TransAlta Corporation -- based in Calgary, Alberta -- is
committed to offering competitive energy and developing new
business alliances. It has two main operating companies:
TransAlta
Utilities Corporation and
TransAlta
Energy Corporation.
TransAlta
Utilities is Canada's largest investor-owned electric
utility; providing electricity to Albertans since 1911.
TransAlta
Energy is in the business of electricity generation, thermal
energy supply and electricity distribution outside of Alberta.
United Illuminating
Company
The United Illuminating Company (UI) is an operating electric
public utility company, incorporated in the State of
Connecticut. It is engaged principally in the production,
purchase, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity for
residential, commercial and industrial purposes in a service
area of about 335 square miles in the southwestern part of the
State.
UI has three wholly-owned subsidiaries only one of which
(United Resources Inc.) is actively engaged in business activity
at this time:
- Research Center, Inc. (RCI) has been formed to
participate in the development of one or more regulated
power production ventures, including possible participation
in arrangements for the future development of independent
power production and cogeneration facilities.
- United Energy International, Inc. (UEI) was formed to
facilitate participation in a joint venture relating to
power production plants abroad.
- United Resources, Inc. (URI) serves as the parent
corporation for Precision Power, Inc. (PPI provides
power-related equipment and services to the owners of
commercial buildings and industrial facilities); American
Payment Systems, Inc. (APS manages agents and equipment for
electronic data processing of bill payments made by
customers of utilities, including UI, at neighborhood
businesses); and Thermal Energies, Inc. (TEI is
participating in the development of district heating and
cooling facilities in the downtown New Haven area).
UtiliCorp United, Inc.
UtiliCorp United is an innovative electric and natural gas
utility company with total assets of more than $3.1 billion. The
company was formed in 1985 from Missouri Public Service Company.
Today, it operates utilities in eight states through seven
divisions, and in one Canadian province through a subsidiary. At
the end of 1994, the company had approximately 1.2 million
utility customers and 4,700 employees.
UtiliCorp and Power Quality Assurance Magazine host the
Power
Quality Forum, A
vehicle for discussions relating to power quality.
Victorian
Power Exchange (VPX)
VPX is an independent company—separate from the generation
and retail sectors, and the main grid—established to manage the
security of the State's power system, manage the wholesale
electricity market and plan and direct the development of the
extra high voltage transmission system. VPX was created as a
result of governmental electricity supply industry reform in
1994.
Washington
Water Power
Washington Water Power is an investor owned electric and
natural gas utility serving parts of Washington, Idaho, Oregon,
and Montana. The Demand Side Management department offers
services and funding to customers to promote energy efficiency
and conservation.
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