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Tri-State Drilling: Challenging Courage

Tri-State Drilling: Challenging Courage

This premier provider of drilled foundations is demonstrating how to overcome big challenges by making a few sound internal...

Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County: Pump It Up

Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County: Pump It Up

This major water municipality in Pennsylvania uses renewable energy to reduce electricity costs.

Manitoba Hydro: More than Waterworks

Manitoba Hydro: More than Waterworks

This publicly owned Canadian utility leads the country in energy conservation and the development of alternative fuels while keeping...

Allteck Line Contractors: Committed to Excellence

Allteck Line Contractors: Committed to Excellence

A strong partnership and dedication to quality service continue to drive this infrastructure solutions company.

Chaparral Energy: Power the Future

Chaparral Energy: Power the Future

A proven record of production growth and a measured approach to reserve acquisitions help set this independent E&P company...

Town of Danvers: Taking Care of Business

Town of Danvers: Taking Care of Business

A major smart grid project is just one of several large initiatives that have this Massachusetts municipality excited about...

 Heritage Propane: Fueling the Future

Heritage Propane: Fueling the Future

Consolidation built this propane dealer into one of the country’s largest. Now it is focused on creating new markets...

Corix Utilities: Smart Service

Corix Utilities: Smart Service

This metering-service provider has come a long way, and its journey of growth has just begun.

Taseko Mines: In It For the Long Run

Taseko Mines: In It For the Long Run

During a period when copper prices were slumping, this mining company took a gamble to develop one of its...

Infinite Energy: All Inclusive

Infinite Energy: All Inclusive

A well-rounded focus on customers, employees, and innovative solutions is fueling the expansion of this energy product supplier.

Bureau of Reclamation: Water Works

Bureau of Reclamation: Water Works

This organization helped claim the water resources of the West and is now working hard to protect them.

Itron North America: Generating Value

Itron North America: Generating Value

This provider of intelligent metering and data collection is building on smart-grid concepts to better serve water and gas...

Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining: The Next Chapter

Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining: The Next Chapter

Learn about this coal mining company area’s rich mining history and what it’s doing to prepare itself for a...

Navasota Energy: Generating Assets

Navasota Energy: Generating Assets

The team at this Houston-based energy management company knows that investors are the fuel for large-scale energy production.

Hydro-Québec: Energy Giants

Hydro-Québec: Energy Giants

This leading hydroelectric company is reducing foreign fuel use and finding innovative outlets for renewable energy.

CantorCO2e: Trading Green for Green

CantorCO2e: Trading Green for Green

Learn how this environmental financial services provider earned its expertise in emissions trading and is helping clients navigate through...

Galleon Energy: Full Speed Ahead

Galleon Energy: Full Speed Ahead

Despite times of turmoil, slowing down wasn’t an option for this growing exploration production outfit.

Clatskanie PUD: Keeping Busy

Clatskanie PUD: Keeping Busy

Industrial growth in the area around this utility has helped infrastructure improvement projects push forward.

Schramm: Tradition of Innovation

Schramm: Tradition of Innovation

This hydraulic drill manufacturer remains steeped in its tradition of innovation by adapting to its customers needs.

Trinidad Drilling: Painless Extraction

Trinidad Drilling: Painless Extraction

With a young fleet and state-of-the-art technology, this Canadian-based oil and natural gas drilling company ensures top performance for...

NGT&S: Tapping into Resources

NGT&S: Tapping into Resources

Expansion of pipelines means more work for the operations arm of this natural gas provider, but it’s more than...

UniversalPegasus International: Joining Forces

UniversalPegasus International: Joining Forces

Mergers and acquisitions over the last few years have made this engineering and project services company into an energy...

Bonanza Creek Energy: National Growth

Bonanza Creek Energy: National Growth

This oil and gas exploration and production company has seen tremendous growth by concentrating on some of the most...

CenterPoint Energy: Get Smart

CenterPoint Energy: Get Smart

This technology-driven utility is investing in intelligent systems to make sure its assets are enterprise-oriented and serviceable for the...

Morgan Schaffer: Transformative Technology

Morgan Schaffer: Transformative Technology

This monitoring equipment manufacturer is expanding its market reach through innovation and experience.

BNK Petroleum: Breaking Apart

BNK Petroleum: Breaking Apart

This company just became an independent entity in 2008, but nonetheless, it’s well positioned to achieve growth in the year...

Public Power: The Smart Choice

Public Power: The Smart Choice

Substantial savings have been the driving force behind this licensed energy supplier.

Harvey Gulf International Marine: Going Deep

Harvey Gulf International Marine: Going Deep

When this year’s massive oil spill hit the Gulf, this marine transport company was ready with a plan that...

PetroBakken: Advanced Drilling

PetroBakken: Advanced Drilling

This Calgary-based light oil producer uses the latest technology to get the most oil out of a large Southeastern Saskatchewan...

Burlington Electric Department: Yankee Thrift

Burlington Electric Department: Yankee Thrift

This Vermont utility has promoted and practiced energy efficiency since the day it powered up the generator in 1905.

Clariant Oil Services: The Right Chemistry

Clariant Oil Services: The Right Chemistry

This oilfield chemicals service provider is growing its presence in the international oil and gas market by delivering state-of-the-art...

Sunshine Oil Sands: Powerful Potential

Sunshine Oil Sands: Powerful Potential

Learn how this company is planning to turn its abundant assets into power and profits by becoming a leader...

NorthWestern Energy: Powered Within

NorthWestern Energy: Powered Within

This investor-owned utility company has revised its mission and is building a better foundation from which to flourish.

Security Supply: Local Leadership

Security Supply: Local Leadership

Local economic growth is a good sign for this plumbing and heating distributor, which leads the region in energy...

Bankers Petroleum: Setting the Standards

Bankers Petroleum: Setting the Standards

Using a mix of experience and technology, this gas and oil exploration company is looking to increase production in...

Okaloosa Gas District: Ready to Go

Okaloosa Gas District: Ready to Go

This gas utility hasn’t let the many challenges of operating on the Gulf Coast stop it from meeting its...

Nooter Construction: Inner Visions

Nooter Construction: Inner Visions

When the economy’s downturn prompted this Midwestern contractor to take a new look at operations, it realized things weren’t...

Seahawk Drilling: Leaving the Nest

Seahawk Drilling: Leaving the Nest

After spinning off from an international drilling company, this organization is taking advantage of industry fragmentation to stretch its wings.

Lower Valley Energy: Preparing for Tomorrow

Lower Valley Energy: Preparing for Tomorrow

Thanks to its long-term vision, this utility is investing in projects designed to keep rates low, improve reliability, and promote...

Wakefield Canada: A Focused Effort

Wakefield Canada: A Focused Effort

With an experienced team and a nationwide focus, this organization is able to help its customers drive growth in a...

Galleon Energy: Steady Growth

Galleon Energy: Steady Growth

Jim Iverson explains how this exploration production organization has been able to maintain significant growth throughout the last six...

Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission: Municipally Powered

Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission: Municipally Powered

By moving from reselling power to supplying it directly, this utility commission has grown steadily over the past decade.

ABB Canada: Running Like the Wind

ABB Canada: Running Like the Wind

Even the worst economic conditions in decades couldn’t stop the power and automation technology juggernaut that is ABB Canada.

J. Cleo Thompson Oil and Gas: The Drilling Edge

J. Cleo Thompson Oil and Gas: The Drilling Edge

When it comes to oil and natural gas exploration in West Texas, experience counts.

Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative: Community Minded

Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative: Community Minded

For the people at this rural utility, which enjoys deep roots in its community, nothing is more important than providing...

Harris Companies: Branching Out

Harris Companies: Branching Out

With a strategy of expanding its project capabilities and geographic reach, this Minnesota-based mechanical contractor is ready to reach...

Yates Petroleum Corporation: The Legacy Lives

Yates Petroleum Corporation: The Legacy Lives

Since the father of this corporation drilled the first commercially productive oil well on New Mexico state-owned lands, this...

Seattle City Light: On the Horizon

Seattle City Light: On the Horizon

This electric utility looks to make cost-effective investments in technology while helping Seattle residents and businesses understand why smart...

Current Issue Features

Clear-Cut Capacity

Clear-Cut Capacity

Vermeer Northeast offers new and used equipment for the construction, drilling and environmental industries. In addition, the company provides parts,...

Get Smart

Get Smart

Power utilities such as AEP Ohio are tasked with providing reliable and safe energy to their communities while also engaging...

Safety First

Safety First

It was no secret that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was front and center after the catastrophe that befell...

Waste No More

Waste No More

Since its founding in 1986, Synagro has played a vital role as one of the country’s prominent providers of comprehensive...

Solid Source

Solid Source

If there is anything that a business needs to adopt to be successful, it is the habit of being consistent...

Pure Providence

Pure Providence

As a government utility, Providence Water knows many of its customers have come to expect a degree of detachment when...

Transformational Power

Transformational Power

Whenever there is a natural disaster, the extent of the damage can be determined in part by how many homes...

Under Control

Under Control

As the global leader in multi-site energy management, Novar – a Honeywell company – developed an innovative technology that has...

Warm Feelings

Warm Feelings

Lancaster County Natural Gas Authority customers in South Carolina can rest assured the organization is working hard to provide reliable,...

Quick and Nimble

Quick and Nimble

Enerflow Industries doesn’t have a strategic vision that is too complicated to understand. As a privately held company that offers...

Smooth Sailing

Smooth Sailing

Bunkers International, headquartered in Orlando, Fla., supplies a growing base of shipping clients around the world with marine fuel. Since...

Masters of Efficiency

Masters of Efficiency

Learn how Consumers Energy became a leader in creating and running successful energy efficiency programs.

Resource Rich

Resource Rich

Last year, Bonanza Creek Energy Company was a debt-financed, rapidly growing exploration and production company that, in just five months,...

Give Me a Call

Give Me a Call

It’s time to ready your contact center for the onslaught of smart grid calls. Telus’s Douglas Hartman walks us...

Up for Discussion

Up for Discussion

We take a hard look at new ­products aimed at making fracking more environmentally friendly.

True Value

True Value

If people are your company’s most valuable asset, why are the systems you use to make decisions about them...

Current Issue Spotlights

Medicine Hat Co-op: Simply Superior

Medicine Hat Co-op: Simply Superior

Improvements through diversification and growth are the mantra that has powered this Alberta co-op for more than 50 years.

Bristow Group: On Target

Bristow Group: On Target

Placing safety, reliability, and service above all else has allowed this helicopter service provider to become a major global...

Vale: Aim for the Top

Vale: Aim for the Top

Ambitious investments and cost controls are how this organization intends to become the number one mining company in the...

Global Earth Energy: Using Green to Go Green

Global Earth Energy: Using Green to Go Green

The relationship between this renewable energy venture capital firm and life settlement company is making the world a greener...

JEA: Change of Plans

JEA: Change of Plans

Flexibility is the name of the game at this fully integrated utility.

Iberdrola USA: Rating increase

Iberdrola USA: Rating increase

A fresh perspective helped this energy services and delivery company earn back the revenue and relationships it had lost.

Long Island Power Authority: Powered by Progress

Long Island Power Authority: Powered by Progress

Learn what this Long Island power utility is doing to be a leader in efficiency and renewable energy while...

Bristol Virginia Utilities: Constant Change

Bristol Virginia Utilities: Constant Change

The evolution of this provider of electric, water, wastewater, and fiber-optic services has always been driven by its progressive...

Grand Rapids Water System: Increasing Pressure

Grand Rapids Water System: Increasing Pressure

This city water department has found a way to reduce its expenses and reduce consumers’ bills.

Western Petroleum: Growing to Greatness

Western Petroleum: Growing to Greatness

Learn how a customer-service-oriented culture and smart internal investments are attributing to this company’s growth.

Alternative Energy Solutions International: Feel the Burn

Alternative Energy Solutions International: Feel the Burn

This biomass-to-energy integrator relies mainly on referrals from satisfied customers to market its services throughout the US.

Black Hills Corporation: The Partner of Choice

Black Hills Corporation: The Partner of Choice

A well-defined long-term growth strategy is allowing this diversified energy company to achieve the performance level its customers and...

Sharp Electronics Corporation: Soaking Up Success

Sharp Electronics Corporation: Soaking Up Success

A household name in consumer electronics, this company is now becoming a popular name outside of the house as...

Red Willow Production Company: Built to Last

Red Willow Production Company: Built to Last

Learn how this oil and gas production company’s steadfast vision and conservative approach have fostered its long-term strategies for...

J. Cleo Thompson Oil and Gas: A Legacy Continued

J. Cleo Thompson Oil and Gas: A Legacy Continued

Take a look back at what made this small, independent oil and gas company a success and what lies...

Scott Powerline and Utility Equipment: Counting on Quality

Scott Powerline and Utility Equipment: Counting on Quality

This transmission equipment leasing company will stop at nothing to provide customers with quality products and service.

Lucas Energy: Strong Profile

Lucas Energy: Strong Profile

It took personnel changes and persistence for this oil company to completely turned around its stock market position.

Wake Electric Membership Cooperative: Tapping into Technology

Wake Electric Membership Cooperative: Tapping into Technology

This electric utility embraces unique technology to meet the needs of its diverse consumer base.

Entegra Power Group: Adaptable Success

Entegra Power Group: Adaptable Success

This organization is gaining long-term stability and success by using a lean and flexible approach.

Heritage Petroleum: Fueled for the Future

Heritage Petroleum: Fueled for the Future

This fuel distributor helps its customers make a plan and develop efficiencies in its usage.

Premier Utility Services: Partnering for Success

Premier Utility Services: Partnering for Success

This utility service provider is helping clients stay on top of their game by providing quality consulting focused on...

Chaparral Energy: Creating Balance

Chaparral Energy: Creating Balance

This production company is choosing investments wisely to create balance and long-term stability.

PCL Constructors: Leading from Legacy

PCL Constructors: Leading from Legacy

By making wise internal investments and extending its expertise, this construction company has become a leader in the building,...

Riley Industrial Services: One-Stop Shop

Riley Industrial Services: One-Stop Shop

This New Mexico company has grown through geographic and industry diversification—and its hard-working crews.

Hess Petroleum Corporation: Building on Tradition

Hess Petroleum Corporation: Building on Tradition

The company that first discovered oil in North Dakota six decades ago continues to invest in the state’s energy...

UPS: The Alternative Side

UPS: The Alternative Side

This shipping company is showing customers that protecting the Earth is just as important as protecting packages.

High Plains Gas: Hidden Potential

High Plains Gas: Hidden Potential

High Plains Gas is in the midst of great change, thanks to a unique perspective and an aggressive acquisition...

ista North America: Catering to Clients

ista North America: Catering to Clients

This IT energy management company is taking an innovative approach to meeting the needs of its clients.

Seattle City Light: Serendipitous Strategy

Seattle City Light: Serendipitous Strategy

Learn how a change in plans for one of the nation’s largest municipal electric utilities helped create a better...

Willmar Municipal Utilities: Sustainable Strategy

Willmar Municipal Utilities: Sustainable Strategy

Thanks to new development projects and opportunities to explore, this municipal utility company is working toward a more sustainable...

ComEd: Staying Smart

ComEd: Staying Smart

This energy delivery company is piloting new programs as it prepares for changes in the industry.