ACCIONA’s group of North American companies are subsidiaries of ACCIONA S.A., a company that ranks among the world’s leading sustainability-focused businesses centered around renewable energy, infrastructure and water treatment. We are committed to pioneering and developing a lasting foundation of sustainability in the U.S. and Canada.
ACCIONA Energy has been pioneering renewable energy for nearly 20 years and is active in all major renewable-energy solutions—solar, wind, biomass, biofuels and small hydro. All of these solutions led to ACCIONA Energy producing more than 18.5 billion KWh of electricity from renewable-energy sources in 2010 alone and thus avoided 10.5 million tons of CO2 emissions. ACCIONA Energy North America is headquartered in Chicago and is responsible for more than 600MW of renewable energy in the US and Canada.
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Ambitech is a client-driven, full capability organization providing fast-track, turnkey engineering, design, procurement, construction, and project management services. Since 1982, Ambitech has met the small to large-scale retrofit, revamp, grass-root and plant expansion needs of our valued clients in the process and manufacturing industries throughout North America and beyond. 85% of our work comes from repeat clients. Many are household names and rank among the FORTUNE® 100. Every one of our long-term business relationships (and many go beyond 20 years) is indicative of our unceasing commitment to meeting our clients’ needs. www.ambitech.com
Arch Coal, Inc. – (NYSE:ACI) is one of the world’s largest and most efficient coal producers, with more than 179 million tons of coal sold (pro forma) in 2010. Arch’s national network of 24 mining complexes supplies cleaner-burning, low-sulfur coal to customers on four continents, including U.S and international power producers and steel manufacturers. In Illinois, Arch operates the Viper Mine in Elkhart, is an equity partner in Knight Hawk and is currently permitting the Lost Prairie Mine in Perry County. Arch is a leader in safe and responsible mining and reclamation and is helping advance the next generation of clean coal technologies. Learn more online at www.archcoal.com and http://youtube.com/archcoalcares.
Armstrong Teasdale – Armstrong Teasdale LLP’s Future Energy Group is a team of lawyers from different practice areas experienced in handling a full-range of energy sector issues including regulations, climate change, sustainability and other environmental concerns. The team helps clients achieve compliance, find solutions and discover opportunities while protecting the earth’s natural resources and developing cleaner and more efficient energy sources. With 250 lawyers in offices across the United States and China, Armstrong Teasdale provides legal guidance in virtually all areas of law to clients throughout the United States and abroad. We are a member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms with locations in more than 100 countries, and the United States Law Firm Group, a network of 18 law firms headquartered in major U.S. cities. The EPA has recognized Armstrong Teasdale as a Green Power Partner for its significant purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates. Our participation is helping to reduce the risks associated with climate change by supporting technologies that are more sustainable for businesses and communities. Visit us at http://www.armstrongteasdale.com/
B&D Consulting is a national advisory and advocacy firm focusing on interdisciplinary services for growth sectors of the U.S. economy. Since 1985, B&D Consulting professionals have served private and public sector clients across the country. Each of our practice groups has a unique set of capabilities designed to meet the needs of clients in a particular sector. From our roots as a full-service federal relations group, we have added strategic planning, technical analysis, and external communications skills that complement and support our advocacy strengths.
B&D Consulting’s Energy, Climate and Environment practice group is at the cutting edge of the law and public policy as the energy sector in America transforms. The executive and legislative branches of the federal government are discussing a number of complex laws and regulations impacting all sectors of the economy. It is clear that corporate decisions have to be made today in anticipation of the application of changing federal and state legal requirements. Our team has an in-depth understanding of fossil fuels, renewable resources and clean energy technologies, and we can help clients assess the implications of evolving federal policies on the operations and markets of their business or enterprise, both domestically and internationally. http://bakerdconsulting.com/
BP is one of the world’s leading international oil and gas companies, providing its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items. www.bp.com/us
The CITGO Lemont Refinery is a strategic supplier of transportation fuels, particularly in the upper Midwest. The refinery has a crude processing capacity of 167,000 barrels per day (bpd) and manufactures several grades of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and high-quality hydrocarbon solvents used in the production of paints, adhesives and coatings. The refinery has a long history of supporting the needs of the upper Midwest. The original CITGO Lemont Refinery was built in the early 1920s with a crude capacity of 25,000 bpd. During the years of 1968-1970, the new CITGO Lemont Refinery was constructed on 900 acres, partially located in Romeoville, Ill., with a capacity of 135,000 bpd. Additional expansion has brought the refinery to its present state as a modern, well-configured 167,000-bpd facility capable of refining heavy, sour crude oils into high-quality finished products. The CITGO Lemont Refinery benefits the surrounding communities, not only as a major supplier of petroleum products, but as a major employer, taxpayer and good neighbor. www.citgo.com.
Clean Energy (Nasdaq: CLNE) is the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America and a global leader in the expanding natural gas vehicle market. It has operations in CNG and liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) vehicle fueling, construction and operation of CNG and LNG fueling stations, biomethane production, vehicle conversion and compressor technology. Clean Energy fuels over 22,700 vehicles at 238 strategic locations across the United States and Canada with a broad customer base in the refuse, transit, trucking, shuttle, taxi, airport and municipal fleet markets. www.cleanenergyfuels.com.
Clean Line Energy is developing high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line projects that will deliver thousands of megawatts of renewable power from the windiest areas of the United States to communities and cities that have a strong appetite for clean, reliable energy. Clean Line Energy is developing the Rock Island Clean Line to connect 3500 megawatts of wind power from Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota to communities in Illinois and other states farther east via an approximately 500-mile overhead, HVDC transmission line. The Rock Island Clean Line represents the new farm to market model for the 21st century delivering clean, renewable energy to communities that need it. www.rockislandcleanline.com
ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities with more than $18 billion in annual revenues and a customer base of 5.4 million in northern Illinois and Pennsylvania. ComEd and its nearly 5,700 employees are responsible for maintaining more than 70,000 miles of power lines that make up the electric transmission and distribution systems in northern Illinois. ComEd also provides customer operations for more than 3.8 million customers across the region, or 70 percent of the state’s population. With a corporate history dating to the early days of electric service in Chicago, ComEd has long been a responsible corporate citizen in northern Illinois. ComEd and its employees are actively involved in communities throughout the region and sponsor many civic and cultural organizations. ComEd is committed to improving electric service reliability for its customers. Since 2001, ComEd has invested approximately $9 billion to expand, upgrade, and maintain the reliability of its transmission and delivery systems. Since 2001, ComEd has reduced the frequency of customer interruptions by 20 percent. During that same time, the duration of those outages decreased by 3 percent. ComEd’s service territory comprises part or all of 25 counties. The territory is bordered by Iroquois County to the south (roughly Interstate 80), the Wisconsin border to the north, Iowa to the west and the Indiana border to the east. www.comed.com
Constellation Energy has a long and pioneering history in the energy industry. From our roots as the nation’s first gas light utility, our company has evolved into one of the largest and most innovative energy companies in America. It is a leading competitive supplier of power, natural gas and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the continental United States. It owns a diversified fleet of generating units, totaling approximately 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and is a leading advocate for clean, environmentally sustainable energy sources, such as solar power and nuclear energy. Constellation Energy has been an active participant in the Illinois energy marketplace for well over a decade and has been involved in virtually all of the electric restructuring matters since the passage of comprehensive restructuring legislation in 1997. Constellation Energy provides electric and/or natural gas service to Illinois businesses, units of government, and homeowners across the State. Constellation has Illinois offices in Chicago and North Aurora. Constellation Energy is a publicly traded (NYSE ticker: CEG) Fortune 500 leader, headquartered in Baltimore, with nearly 10,000 employees and $14.3 billion in annual revenues (2010). To learn more information, please visit http://www.constellation.com
Dynegy Inc. is the nation’s third largest independent (non-utility affiliated) power producer. Its subsidiaries produce and sell electricity, capacity, and ancillary services in U.S. markets from generating facilities in Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, California, and Nevada. This power generation portfolio consists of approximately 11,600 megawatts of baseload, intermediate, and peaking power generation facilities, fueled by a mix of natural gas, coal, and fuel oil. These facilities work to achieve a balance between environmental stewardship and reliable and affordable production of electricity to power regional growth. Dynegy’s headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
Dynegy is the largest independent power producer in Illinois. Dynegy Midwest Generation, LLC and Dynegy Kendall Energy, LLC are proud to serve Illinois with four coal-fired and three natural gas-fired generating facilities capable of producing more than 4,300 megawatts of electricity. These plants, located in Randolph, Madison, Mason, Putnam and LaSalle Counties, and Kendall County, Illinois, are among the cleanest in the nation. In addition, Dynegy Inc. maintains offices in Springfield and O’Fallon, Illinois. Dynegy and its subsidiaries have over 600 employees in Illinois, making Illinois Dynegy’s largest combined workforce.
More information is available at www.dynegy.com
Enbridge Inc. is a North American leader in delivering energy and one of the 2011 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations. As a transporter of energy, Enbridge operates, in the U.S. and Canada, the world’s longest crude oil and liquids transportation system.
Enbridge U.S. operations—headquartered in Houston, Texas—make Enbridge a leader in energy transportation in the Midwest, Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Enbridge transports crude oil, liquid petroleum and natural gas and operates natural gas midstream businesses, including gathering, transmission, processing, treating and marketing subsidiaries. The Enbridge U.S. operations are indirect, wholly owned subsidiaries of Enbridge Inc., headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Company is expanding its interests in renewable and green energy technologies including wind and solar energy, hybrid fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration. As a distributor of energy, Enbridge owns and operates Canada’s largest natural gas distribution company, and provides distribution services in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and New York State. Enbridge employs approximately 6,400 people, primarily in the U.S. and Canada.
Exelon Generation – As one of the world’s largest power producers and wholesale marketers, Exelon Generation has access to about 38,000 megawatts of owned and contracted electricity supply and is comprised of five operating groups, Exelon Nuclear, Exelon Power, Exelon Power Team, Exelon Energy and Exelon Wind.
The ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery is a key supplier of refined petroleum products to the Midwest. The Joliet Refinery employs more than 600 people and is a leader in energy efficiency among US refineries. The refinery is equipped to process 250,000 barrels of crude per day and produces approximately nine million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel every day. Additionally the refinery produces propane, butane, industrial fuels and asphalt. These fuels and other refinery products are transported primarily to consumers across the Midwest. www.exxonmobil.com
FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. is a leading energy supplier, serving residential, commercial and industrial customers throughout the Northeast, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. Based in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy Solutions is the competitive subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., the nation’s largest investor-owned electric utility.
FirstEnergy Solutions owns 31 power plants totaling approximately 20,000 megawatts of generation and offers a wide range of energy and energy-related products and services to wholesale and retail customers, including the generation and sale of electricity and energy planning and procurement. We supply electricity to 1.5 million customers inIllinois,Maryland,Michigan,New Jersey,OhioandPennsylvania, and manage the energy and procurement needs for over 120,000 businesses. www.fes.com
Flint Hills Resources, LLC, through its subsidiaries, is a leading refining and chemicals company. It markets products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol, olefins, polymers and intermediate chemicals as well as base oils and asphalt. The company’s chemical business includes production facilities in Joliet and Peru, Illinois. Flint Hills Resources is a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc.
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At GE Energy we believe that how we manage energy today will determine the kind of world we live in tomorrow. Whether it is solar power in ruralIndia, wind power inEurope, or cleaner coal in theUS, GE’s diverse portfolio of power generation products and services is changing the way we think about power and energy. http://www.ge.com/products_services/energy.html http://www.ge-energy.com/solutions/index.jsp
GTI is an independent not-for-profit organization serving research, development, and training needs of the natural gas industry and energy markets. GTI is dedicated to meeting the nation’s energy and environmental challenges by developing technology-based solutions for consumers, industry, and government. GTI is located on an 18-acre site in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Illinois. The facility houses nearly 250 of GTI’s professional and support staff, and all of the equipment necessary to support this program. Over 70% of our personnel are technically trained engineers and scientists. GTI has over 280,000 square feet of office, laboratory, shop, library, and training space with over 110,000 square feet devoted to laboratory, fabrication and testing facilities. GTI has more than 70 years of Research and Development (R&D) experience, including projects funded by federal and state agencies, as well as private industry, and has a long-established record of meeting the objectives, goals, and deliverables of R&D programs on time and within budget. GTI has received almost 1,200 patents and has entered into 750 licensing agreements, and equity positions in several portfolio companies which is proof of its ability to solve the customer’s challenges and move the results to the marketplace. http://www.gastechnology.org
Invenergy and its affiliated companies develop, own and operate large-scale renewable and other clean energy generation facilities in North America and Europe. Invenergy is committed to clean power alternatives and continued innovation in electricity generation. The company’s home office is located in Chicago and it has regional development offices throughout the United States and in Canada and Europe. www.invenergyllc.com
ITC Holdings Corp. (NYSE:ITC) invents in the electricity transmission grid to improve electric reliability, expand access to markets, lower the overall cost of delivered energy and allow new generating resources to interconnect to its transmission systems. The largest independent electricity transmission company in the country, ITC operates high-voltage transmission systems in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and portions of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, serving a combined peak load in excess of 25,000 megawatts through its regulated operating subsidiaries, ITC Transmission, Michigan Electric Transmission Company (METC), ITC Midwest and ITC Great Plains. ITC also focuses on new areas where significant transmission system improvements are needed through ITC Grid Development and its subsidiaries. For more information please visit: www.itc-holdings.com
Northstar is a leading independent manufacturer of components and assemblies to the global aerospace industry. Principal products include gears and transmissions, accessory gearbox assemblies, rotorcraft drive systems and other machined and fabricated parts for helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. In addition, Northstar provides maintenance and repair and overhaul (MRO) on these same platforms. Northstar is a publicly traded company (TSX:NAS) with operating subsidiaries in Canada and the United States. The Company’s corporate office is located in Bedford Park, Illinois, near Chicago. Northstar has a strong foothold in the defense and commercial aerospace sectors of the global industry. The Company’s customers include some of the world’s leading aerospace original equipment manufacturers. Check out our website for more information: Northstar Aerospace, Inc.
Headquartered in Findlay, Ohio in the heart of the Midwest, Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is the name of the parent company which includes several subsidiary companies including Marathon Petroleum Company LP, Marathon Pipe Line LLC, and Speedway LLC. MPC is the nation’s fifth largest transportation fuels refiner and the largest refiner in the Midwest. MPC’s refining, marketing and transportation operations are concentrated primarily in the Midwest, Gulf Coast and Southeast regions of the U.S. MPC operations are strategically located to serve major markets. They include a six-plant refining network, a comprehensive terminal and transportation system, and extensive wholesale and retail marketing operations. This includes both the Marathon Brand and MPC’s wholly owned retail marketing subsidiary, Speedway LLC, the nation’s fourth largest chain of company-owned and operated retail gasoline and convenience stores. www.marathonpetroleum.com.
Midwest Generation is one of the largest independent power producers in the United States, producing safe, reliable and affordable electricity that can meet the energy needs of nearly 5 million homes. Midwest Generation is a subsidiary of Edison Mission Group (EMG) and part of the Edison International family of companies, which is based in Rosemead, California. The company has major regional offices in Chicago and Bolingbrook and operates six coal-fired power plants in Joliet, Pekin, Romeoville, Waukegan and two in Chicago. Midwest Gen has about 1,100 employees in the state, about 70 percent of whom are members of the Illinois Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
The company acquired the Illinois plants in 1999 and began making significant investments in safety and environmental improvements. In 2006 Midwest Generation reached a landmark agreement with the State of Illinois to achieve major reductions in emissions of mercury, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide. In 2008, Midwest Generation plants were among the first in the country to install mercury control technology, which the company pioneered in partnership with the US Department of Energy. The company is now four years into this 10-year plan with the state. www.midwestgeneration.com.
Nicor has been part of the fabric of the communities in northern Illinois and the Chicago suburbs for five decades. The corporation’s largest subsidiary, Nicor Gas, was founded in 1954 as Northern Illinois Gas and today is one of the largest natural gas distribution companies in the country, serving 2.2 million customers in 643 communities. Nicor Gas operates a network of more than 34,000 miles of pipelines connected to the largest underground storage facilities in the country. This helps ensure reliable natural gas delivery to customers year-round. Nicor’s second largest subsidiary is Tropical Shipping, a containerized shipping business serving the Bahamas and Caribbean regions. Nicor also owns and has equity interest in several unregulated energy-related businesses. www.nicor.com
Patrick Engineering is a nationwide engineering, design and project management firm with a long history of success on a variety of complex infrastructure projects. Our expanding client list includes key government agencies and FORTUNE 500 companies in a broad range of industries including rail, energy and water. We focus on providing pre-construction services, procurement, and construction management of heavy civil infrastructure projects. We accomplish this with technical experts in the fields of civil, structural, hydraulic, environmental, geotechnical, and electrical engineering, geology, surveying, construction management, process control, and GIS. Engineering News Record (ENR) has included Patrick in its ENR Top 500 for 18 consecutive years. Patrick is committed to achieving our client’s vision and adding value to each project we touch. www.patrickco.com.
Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) markets, brokers and trades coal in the world’s fastest-growing economies. Peabody has trading and business offices in China, Australia, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Indonesia and the United States. Other energy-related commercial initiatives include the development of mine-mouth coal-fueled generating plants, the management of vast coal reserve and real estate holdings, and Btu Conversion technologies to transform coal to natural gas and transportation fuels. The company has approximately 9 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves and owns, through its subsidiaries, majority interests in 28 coal operations located throughout all major U.S. coal producing regions and in Australia. Peabody is the world’s largest private-sector coal company and a global leader in clean coal solutions. Peabody’s coal products fuel 10 percent of all U.S. and 2 percent of worldwide electricity generation.
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Prairie State Energy Campus – is a state-of-the-art mine mouth coal mine and power plant that will provide clean, low-cost electricity to 2.5 million families in 8 states by the end of 2012. Located in Washington County, Illinois, Prairie State Energy Campus will employ more than 500 people upon completion and has provided jobs for more than 4,000 trade laborers since the groundbreaking in 2007. With more than $1 billion invested in emissions controls, Prairie State Energy Campus will be the cleanest coal-fueled power plant in the nation and represents the future of coal. www.prairiestateenergycampus.com
Riverport Railroad, LLC is a short line railroad that owns or controls over 2,000 acres of property in the NW Corner of Illinois. We interchange with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Line at Robinson Spur, linking the Pacific Northwest and the ports and places in the Midwest, Gulf, Southwest and Southeast United States. Our services include receipt, storage, and transloading, value added distribution or export for a very wide variety of commodities. For more information go to www.riverportrailroad.com
Sargent & Lundy LLC is internationally recognized as one of the most experienced power engineering companies. Headquartered inChicago, the firm has been dedicated to serving electric power and energy intensive clients for 120 years. The company provides comprehensive engineering & design, consulting, and project development services for all types power generation (fossil fuel, nuclear, renewable energy) and power delivery projects.
The firm has been a leading designer of power plants and transmission lines since the inception of the electric power industry and a major contributor to power facility advancements. The company’s leadership role continues today with client projects that are implementing advanced thermal power, renewable energy, and transmission technologies. The company also supports many clients in their integrated resource planning initiatives and other assessment programs with technical and economic consulting expertise.
Scheck Industries, founded in 1984, is a nationwide construction firm, with core expertise in the Power Generation, Refinery, Semiconductor, Green Fuels, Chemical and the Pharmaceutical Industries. Scheck Industries provides the following capital construction services: Prime Contractor, Power and Process Piping, Boiler, and Pipe Fabrication. The Company is known throughout the heavy industrial sector as one of the safest contactors in America with award winning Excellence in Safety in the category of 1 million work hours for several years running. For the last two years approaching nearly 3 million work hours Scheck Industries has operated without a recordable. The Company employs over 1500 trades people on an annual basis. In the pipe, instrument, and boiler trades the Company operates almost exclusively with its own workforce with execution capabilities in its own logistically supported fabrication shops in Wisconsin and Joliet, Illinois. Scheck’s commitment to safety provides its customers, the world’s largest EPCs (Engineering Procurement Construction firms) and many of the Fortune 500, the advantages of economies of scale with multi-jurisdictional labor sourcing, best-in-class project management, innovative internet based cost accounting and scheduling. These powerful construction tools result in on-time under budget delivery of new industrial facilities and plant retrofits. http://www.goscheck.com/
Schiff Hardin LLP was founded in 1864 and is a client-focused law firm, combining great breadth of knowledge with depth of experience. With attorneys in offices across the United States, we offer clients a diversified practice covering almost every legal discipline. Schiff Hardin has the expertise and hands-on experience necessary to successfully assist clients in renewable energy projects including Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Services, Renewable and Alternative Energy, Carbon Constraints and Renewable Energy Incentives, Energy Efficiency and Demand Response and Clean Technology. We solve problems by employing proven strategies and deploying interdisciplinary teams of lawyers from our energy, environmental, construction, project finance, real estate, intellectual property, tax and litigation groups who have the energy-specific experience to assist clients with the toughest challenges. The Firm has also played a role in the development, interpretation and implementation of all major energy and environmental legislation for more than 30 years. http://www.schiffhardin.com/
Schlumberger Carbon Services provides technologies and services for the long-term geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2). Our experience, gained by participation in many Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) projects worldwide, is backed up by a corporate history of over 80 years in the oil & gas industry. Our multidisciplinary teams bring the project management, communications, and technology delivery skills needed to integrate all the services for storage safety, reliability and regulatory compliance. We work to combine our storage knowledge together with that of other providers in the areas of capture and transport, to deliver safe and successful CCS projects. Locally we maintain offices within the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) in Champaign. We’re currently partnering in two major CCS demonstration projects in Decatur, one with ISGS and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), and the other with ISGS, ADM and Richland Community College. Our team here has expertise in all aspects of CO2 storage, built on experience in other CCS projects around the world. In these two local projects, Schlumberger Carbon Services is responsible for the seismic data collection and processing (through WesternGeco a business unit of Schlumberger), geologic modeling, reservoir simulation and storage safety as well as the design, construction, and characterization of the injection, monitoring and geophysical wells. We also contribute to the communications and permitting efforts in both projects. For more information visit www.slb.com/carbonservices
In 2001, Winergy founded its office in the US and since then has been supplying equipment to the whole of North and South America. The production capacity was increased in 2009 with the construction of a new factory in Elgin, IL.
Winergy has been supplying innovative drive systems and wind turbine components to the international wind power industry since 1981. Every second wind turbine installed worldwide is equipped with at least one of our components for converting wind power into electrical energy. www.winergy-group.com
