Utility Services Industry Competitors

Location, location, location. The mantra is important in the real estate industry, and it certainly applies to the Central Locating Service, which locates and marks underground gas, electric, water, sewer, and communication lines so that the operating companies can fix problems, complete routine maintenance procedures, or simply map out their infrastructure systems....

Giving commercial and residential energy customers a choice in the rates and options for energy consumption is what CHOICE! Energy Services is all about. Through its CHOICE! Energy Services and Texas Energy Services divisions the company provides consulting and price comparison services to retail customers....

Commerce Energy Group (formerly Commonwealth Energy) works for the common good of customer choice in terms of supplying electricity and natural gas. The company's primary subsidiary, Commerce Energy, Inc., is a nonregulated retail energy provider that operates under the trade name electricAmerica and serves approximately 196,000 customers in California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas....

Dalkia doesn't balk when it comes to managing its clients' energy needs. The company's services include electricity, water, and natural gas procurement, energy efficiency consulting, electrical and mechanical contracting, building management control, and outsourced facilities maintenance....

Decatur Utilities (the operating name of the Municipal Utilities Board of Decatur) caters to the power, gas, water, and wastewater needs of more than 30,000 residents (including 14,600 gas customers) of the city of Decatur, and Morgan County, in Alabama. In an area that experiences heavy rain, Decatur Utilities spends approximately $1 million each year to repair clay sewer pipe and brick manholes and other aging infrastructure....

Enterprise Group is taking the initiative in providing outsourced infrastructure management. The company provides maintenance, consulting, and other support services to its clients, which include utilities (electric, natural gas, and water), telecommunications companies, local authorities, schools, and other organizations in the UK....

Energy service provider NORESCO provides utility customers in the US with infrastructure development, design/build services, commissioning strategies, financing, and client-centered asset management services. The company develops and implements build/own/operate distributed generation, cogeneration, or combined heat and power projects; arranges, on a consulting basis, commodity electricity or gas supply; and provides firm contracting of energy supply....

For most people, nuclear management is so much more than a good idea, it is a self-evident necessity. Nuclear Management Company is a contract management firm that operates and maintains two nuclear power plants in the upper Midwest (more than 1,700 MW of generating capacity)....

Looking for a land mine? PipeHawk is an electronic systems development company that specializes in land mines and underground utilities detection. It offers services through four main divisions. PipeHawk's SUMO franchising operation, a joint venture with Franchise Concepts Limited, offers on-site utilities detection and marking services throughout the UK....

SM&P Utility Resources has the means to see through dirt. The company locates and marks underground utility and communications infrastructure in the midwestern US. Customers include providers of electricity, natural gas, water, telephone, cable TV, and fiber-optic services who want to complete construction projects without damaging their networks....

To sum it up: Summit Energy Services is a major provider of energy management and procurement services for industrial and commercial companies. The company's offerings include market intelligence reporting, need and competitive supply analysis, contract negotiation, utility bill auditing, risk advisory planning, and energy efficiency projects....

Techem knows when the heat is on. The company is a leading European utility services firm that monitors energy and water consumption in nearly seven million households, primarily apartments and multi-family dwellings. It also offers its 611,000 customers additional services such as heat and water meter sales and rentals, heating system maintenance, and bill collection....

Westinghouse Electric has gone nuclear. The company provides design work and start-up help for new nuclear power plants and makes many of the components. Westinghouse Electric also manufactures and supplies the commercial fuel products needed to run the plants, and it offers training, engineering, maintenance, and quality management services....

Celeren Corporation is looking to accelerate its revenue growth as its offers fixed-cost electric utility services to small- and medium-sized companies. The company is developing a portfolio of diverse commercial energy users with the objective of stabilizing and reducing the cost of electricity and natural gas by collectively accessing highly competitive markets previously inaccessible to smaller, independent retail consumers....

GridSense Systems (formerly CHK Wireless Technologies) knows that it makes business sense to prevent blackouts on the power grid. The company's products help electric utilities and heavy industries monitor circuits and provide other services with digital sensing and detection devices mounted throughout electrical transmission and distribution grids....