
	Houston-based Champion Energy Services is one of the fastest-growing and largest retail electric providers (REPs) in the nation and one of the top REPs never to have been affiliated with a utility. Champion currently serves residential, governmental, commercial and industrial customers in deregulated electric energy markets in Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; governmental, commercial and industrial customers in Ohio, Maryland and New York; natural gas customers in Illinois and plans to begin serving customers in the District of Columbia and Delaware in the fourth quarter of 2013.
	
	The company has ranked &quot;&quot;Highest in Residential Customer Satisfaction with Retail Electric Service, Four Years in a Row&quot;&quot; according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010-2013 Texas Residential Retail Electric Provider Customer Satisfaction Studies(SM).* Backed by the financial strength of Texas-based Crane Capital and EDF Trading North America, LLC, the company currently serves more than 1.3 million residential customer equivalents, with a peak load near 3,200 megawatts.
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