Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cinergy Corp. (NYSE:CIN) is one of the nation's leading diversified energy companies. Cinergy has a focused strategy intent on growing its energy merchant business. The company owns, operates or has under development over 21,000 megawatts of generation. Cinergy has the eighth-largest electricity trading organization in the U.S. as well as physical and financial gas trading capabilities of 35 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/day). The "into Cinergy" power-trading hub is the most liquid trading hub in the U.S. Cinergy's energy merchant business operates in several regions of the U.S. and is based on a profitable balance of asset development, customer origination, marketing and trading, industrial-site cogeneration and infrastructure development and plant operations. Cinergy owns regulated operations in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky that serves 1.5 million electric customers and about 500,000 gas customers. In addition, Cinergy manages one of the industry's top power-technology portfolios.