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| Formerly | MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (1971-2014) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Electricity |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | , |
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| Revenue |  US$25.15 billion (2021) |
 US$2.331 billion (2023) | |
| US$2.721 billion (2022) | |
Number of employees | 24,000 (2023) |
| Parent | Berkshire Hathaway |
| Website | brkenergy |
| Footnotes /references [1] [2] [3] [4] | |
Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) is an American energy holding company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. The company is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. BHE owns and operates a diverse portfolio of utility and energy businesses, providing electricity and natural gas to more than 5 million customers across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Its subsidiaries include MidAmerican Energy Company, NV Energy, PacifiCorp, and Northern Powergrid, among others, serving regions ranging from the Western and Midwestern U.S. to parts of the U.K. through regulated utility operations and renewable energy initiatives. [2]
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BHE serves approximately 5.3 million retail customers and has a generating capacity of 29 gigawatts. The company transports 8.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day and owns five U.S. interstate natural gas pipeline companies, which operate 21,000 miles of pipeline with a combined design capacity of 21 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. [2] It is also exploring the production of lithium carbonate and other minerals from its 350-megawatt geothermal power plants located in Lithium Valley near the Salton Sea in California. [5]
