Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, a not-for-profit electric cooperative, is a regional wholesale power supplier that operates approximately 1,250 MW of wind, gas, and coal-based generating capacity and more than 2,250 miles of transmission system for the needs of its six member cooperatives who serve more than 400,000 customers living in 55 counties in central and western Kansas.

Sunflower’s member cooperatives include Lane-Scott Electric Cooperative, Pioneer Electric Cooperative, Prairie Land Electric Cooperative, Victory Electric Cooperative Association, Western Cooperative Electric Association, and Wheatland Electric Cooperative.

http://www.sunflower.net

The National Institute for Strategic Technology Acquisition and Commercialization (NISTAC) is a not-for-profit organization specializing in intellectual property commercialization. NISTAC’s portfolio includes 1,100 donated corporate patents, intellectual property licensing for Kansas State University and other academic institutions, and numerous private industry joint ventures and startup companies.

http://www.nistac.org

MRI is a not-for-profit scientific research organization with 1,800 employees nationwide. MRI works with government, industry, and academic clients providing leading research in energy and environment, national security and defense, life sciences, food and agriculture, and transportation safety. MRI has managed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the U.S. Department of Energy since the labs inception in 1977.

http://www.mriresearch.org

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association – Based in the Denver suburb of Westminster, Tri-State is the wholesale power supplier to 44 electric cooperatives throughout Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska. It operates a 5,200 transmission network covering its 250,000 square-mile service territory.

http://www.tristategt.org

Golden Spread Electric Cooperative provides wholesale electric service to 16 electric distribution cooperatives who serve 260,000 member-customers in 24 percent of Texas, including the Panhandle, South Plains, and Edwards Plateau regions, and in the Oklahoma Panhandle, and in Southwestern Kansas.

http://www.gsec.coop

The Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA) was created by the Kansas Economic Growth Act of 2004 with the purpose of advancing Kansas’ leadership in bioscience. The KBA has funding authority of over $581 million for bioscience and bioenergy investment.

http://www.kansasbioauthority.org