Independent/Merchant Power Production Industry Competitors

Just like the "Allegheny Moon" Patti Page sang about, Allegheny Energy Supply can really "shine, shine, shine." The company is the power production subsidiary of utility holding company Allegheny Energy (AE). The unit owns and operates 21 fossil-fueled and hydroelectric power plants, but about 95% of its power is generated by coal (the company burns 18 million tons of coal a year)....

Altek Power hopes it has all the technology it needs to become a top player in the global electricity market. The independent power producer is a manufacturer of distributed generation plants. It operates a generation facility in Alberta that is fueled with solution gas (a waste product of the petroleum industry)....

Generating profits through cogeneration, Americas Power Partners focuses on cogeneration technologies as it develops small-scale independent power plants (generating less than 100 MW of power) in the US and sells electricity to utilities, marketers, and industrial and commercial users....

Renewable energy never gets old to Boralex. The company produces wood-residue, natural gas-fired cogeneration, hydroelectric, and wind energy in Quebec, the northeastern US, and France....

Negative PR fallout still lingers around nuclear power plants in the wake of the UK's 1957 Windscale plant nuclear accident, the 1979 Three Mile Island incident in the US, and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. But British Energy is still a believer. The group is the UK's largest electricity generator and produces about 20% of the UK's power through its eight nuclear facilities in Scotland and England (total capacity is 9,600 MW)....

Brookfield Renewable Power (formerly Brookfield Power) isn't brash when it comes to producing electricity. The subsidiary of real estate firm Brookfield Asset Management generates more than 3,900 MW of capacity at 160 hydroelectric plants in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia, as well as in the US (Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, and New York) and Brazil....

Canadian Hydro Developers wants to fill up the Canadian energy market with water, wind, and wood-waste generated electricity. The company builds and operates independent power plants that focus on low-impact renewable energy technologies, such as hydroelectric, biomass, and wind energy, in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec....

China Huaneng Group (CHNG) is one of China's five largest power conglomerates. The company oversees the national government's interests in 10 subsidiaries, including a 51% stake in Huaneng Power International. Through subsidiaries it develops and operates more than 85 thermal and hydro power plants....

Tricks are for kids, but Cogentrix Energy serves up a power treat for customers through its electric generating facilities. The company develops, owns, and operates independent power plants, located primarily in the US. Cogentrix Energy has an operational generating capacity of 890 MW from its stakes in 16 coal- and gas-fired facilities....

Constellation Generation (aka Constellation Energy Generation Group) is a real star in a firmament of stellar energy businesses when it comes to power generation. The company is a key element of parent Constellation Energy Group's nonregulated merchant energy division....

The power ball is back in Covanta Energy's court. The major operating arm of Covanta Holding, the power producer has interests in 57 power plants located in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Its plants use a variety of fuels, including municipal solid waste, wood waste (biomass), landfill gas, water (hydroelectric), natural gas, coal, and heavy fuel....

Datang Power is a zinger in the Chinese power market. Datang International Power Generation (Datang Power), formerly Beijing Datang Power Generation, operates and develops power plants, sells electricity, and provides power equipment maintenance services throughout the country....

Drax Group has bragging rights when it comes to operating the largest coal-fired power plant in Europe. The company's primary subsidiary, Drax Power, operates the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, England. The generation facility has a capacity of nearly 4,000 MW; its output is sold to wholesale electricity customers....

It does not take a genius to figure out what business Electric Energy (EEI) is involved in. The company generates 1,000 MW of electric capacity at its coal-fired power plant in Joppa, Illinois, and 55 MW at it natural gas fired facility at the same location....

IBERDROLA RENEWABLES (formerly PPM Energy) is a real power player in the energy industry. The company holds the nonregulated North American operations of Scottish Power (which was acquired by IBERDROLA in 2007)....

Independent power producer InterGen is an international generator of electricity with interests in nine power plant projects with more than 7,000 MW of generating capacity in Australia, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, and the UK....

Maxim Power's dictum is to generate electricity with minimal environmental impact. The independent power producer develops, acquires, owns, and operates 32 generation facilities in Canada, France and the US. The company's power plants are fueled by conventional fossil fuels and alternative energy technologies....

As one might expect, Midwest Generation sells wholesale electricity to markets in the Midwest. The independent power producer has a generating capacity of more than 5,470 MW from its six coal-fired power plants in Illinois; it also oversees the operation of the Fisk and Waukegan on-site generating plants which have 305 MW of capacity....

In many parts of the US people are "talkin'" 'bout PPL G-g-g-generation. PPL Generation, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation, operates more than 30 power plants and hydroelectric facilities in northeastern and northwestern portions of the US....

Even rugged Montanans need electricity to power their homes and businesses. PPL Montana operates eleven hydroelectric power plants along the Missouri River, as well as two coal-burning plants, that give it a combined generating capacity of nearly 1,300 MW....