Berkshire Hathaway Energy (previously known as MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company until 2014) is a

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that is 92% owned by

Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from ...

. Berkshire has owned a controlling stake since 1999. The company also controls power distribution companies in the United Kingdom and Canada.

Greg Abel Gregory Edward Abel (born June 1, 1962) is a Canadian businessman, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, and vice-chairman of non-insurance operations of Berkshire Hathaway since January 2018. Early life and education Gregory Edward Abel ...

serves as president, chairman and CEO. David L. Sokol was CEO until 2008. Until 2014, it was known as MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company from its root as

MidAmerican Energy Company MidAmerican Energy Company is an energy company based in Des Moines, Iowa. Its service area includes almost two-thirds of Iowa, as well as portions of Illinois, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Its territory is wholly encompassed by the territory of ...

; it took on the name of its parent to reflect the diversity of its portfolio. As of 2019, BHE "serves 4.9 million retail customers, generates 29 gigawatts of power and transports 8.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day over 16,400 miles of regulated pipeline."

Subsidiaries & investments

Berkshire Hathaway Energy owns the following companies: *

*MidAmerican Renewables (

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) *

PacifiCorp PacifiCorp is an electric power company in the western United States. PacifiCorp has two business units: # Pacific Power, a regulated electric utility with service territory throughout Oregon, northern California, and southeastern Washington. # ...

, purchased for $9.4 billion in 2005 *

Northern Powergrid Northern Powergrid Holdings Company (formerly CE Electric UK Funding Company) is an electrical distribution company based in Newcastle Upon Tyne in England. It is the owner of Northern Powergrid (Northeast) plc (formerly Northern Electric Distrib ...

(formerly CE Electric UK) **

Integrated Utility Services UK Integrated Utility Services is a high voltage electrical contracting business owned by an electrical distribution company and is based in Yorkshire in England. It is owned by Northern Powergrid which is the distribution network operator for the No ...

*CalEnergy Generation, 350 MW

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plants *Kern River Gas Transmission Company **

Kern River Pipeline Kern River Pipeline is a long natural gas pipeline line extending from southwestern Wyoming to its terminus near Bakersfield, California. The pipeline supplies local gas distribution companies, power plants, and heavy industry in Utah, Nevada, an ...

*Northern Natural Gas Company (Omaha) *

HomeServices of America Berkshire Hathaway Home Services is a residential real estate services company. The company provides real estate brokerage services, mortgage loan origination, franchising, title insurance/escrow and closing services, home warranties, property ...

(Real Estate, in 47 states) *

BYD Company BYD Co. Ltd. ("Build Your Dreams" Chinese: 比亚迪股份有限公司) is a publicly listed Chinese conglomerate manufacturing company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It was founded by Wang Chuanfu in February 1995.NV Energy NV Energy is a public utility which generates, transmits and distributes electric service in northern and southern Nevada, including the Las Vegas Valley, and provides natural gas service in the Reno–Sparks metropolitan area of northern Nevada. ...

(electricity and natural gas in most of

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) *Metalogic Inspections Services (Oil and Gas,

Power Generation Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery ( transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its stor ...

, Fabrication, Pipeline, Services) *Intelligent Energy Solutions (

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, and Biomass Boilers) *

AltaLink AltaLink, L.P. is one of Canada's largest electricity transmission companies. Based in Alberta, AltaLink is responsible for the maintenance and operation of approximately 12,000 kilometres of transmission lines and 280 substations in Alberta. Alt ...

(Electric Utility in Canada) for C$3.24 billion in 2014 In 2017, BHE's proposed acquisition of Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC was terminated after BHE was outbid by

Sempra Sempra is a North American energy infrastructure company based in San Diego, California. The company is one of the largest utility holding companies in the United States with roughly 40 million consumers. Sempra's focus is on electric and natura ...

. BHE investigates producing up to 90 thousand tonnes of

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per year (and other minerals) from its 350 MW

plants in California (

Salton Sea The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline body of water in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough that stretches to the Gulf o ...

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