Headquartered at Columbus, Ohio, American Electric Power (AEP) is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. It has more than 40,000-mile electricity transmission network.

Energy Industries of Ohio, formed in 2000, is a non-profit corporation aimed at assisting Ohio’s energy intensive user and power generation industries. Its mission is to develop, demonstrate, and incubate technologies that will improve the competitiveness of Ohio industry through increased energy efficiency, reduced operating costs and improved environmental performance.

Founded in 1972, California-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is an independent, non-profit organization for public interest energy and environmental research. It conducts research, development, and demonstration projects for the benefit of the public in the United States and internationally.

Chicago-based Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors & Premiers (GSGP), formerly known as Conference of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers, is a non-partisan partnership of the Governors of 10 states - Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Québec, and Wisconsin - formed in 1983 to deal with the region's environmental and economic challenges. The organization promotes exports from its region's small and medium sized companies through a network of foreign trade offices and missions.

Established in 1966, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is the international marketing arm for Hong Kong-based traders, manufacturers and service providers. With more than 40 global offices, including 13 on the Chinese mainland, the HKTDC promotes Hong Kong as a platform for doing business with China and throughout Asia. It also organises trade fairs and business missions to connect companies with opportunities in Hong Kong and on the mainland, while providing information via trade publications, research reports and online.

As the lead economic development agency for the State of Idaho, the mission of the Idaho Department of Commerce is to foster a business friendly environment to aid in job creation, support existing companies, strengthen communities, and market Idaho to grow and expand the economy by supporting the expansion and retention of Idaho businesses and attraction of new businesses to the state; guide Idaho businesses in exports of goods and services to the world and encourage foreign investment in Idaho, etc.

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) is a public-private partnership agency and economic development corporation dedicated to job creation in the US state of Michigan. The corporation enlists the help of regional economic development partners to expand and attract businesses.

The Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA) works with partners across business, government, academia and the non-profit sector to build strong communities that support job creation. The agency works to support Ohio's businesses, large and small, as they manoeuvre in the global economy.

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is a public-private agency created in 2011 to foster the cooperation necessary to support sustainable business growth and job creation. WEDC grants loans that would give assistance to a company's attempts to grow and employ more workers within the state of Wisconsin.