Independent Power Producers /
 Non-Utility Generators /
 Wholesale Generators /
 Power Marketers

see also Renewable Resources Development

  • Acadia Power Partners LLC
    • JV between affilates of Cleco Corp and Calpine Corp relating to 1160 MW Acadia Energy Center, Eunice LA.
  • ACES Power Marketing
    • reported as acronym for Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services
  • AIG Global Investment Group, AIGGIG
    • AIG Highstar Capital II LP
    • Northern Star Generation LLC
      • JV of AIG Global Investment Group and Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan Board.  Northern Star Generation LCC is owned by AIG Highstar Generation LLC and OTPPB US Power LLC, which is owned by Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board. AIG Highstar Generation is owned by AIG Highstar Capital II LP and affiliates. AIG Highstar Capital II LP is sponsored by AIG Global Investments Corp
      • 7/7/2004: closes purchase from El Paso Merchant Energy, an unregulated unit of El Paso Corp. on 4 of 25 power plants
        • Orlando in Florida (114 MW)
        • Panther Creek in PA (81 MW)
        • Bonneville in Nevada (85 MW) and
        • Dartmouth in MA (68 MW)
      • 5/7/2004: announced purchased 50% ownership share of Orange Cogen from El Paso same date as announced Orange Power Holdings LP purchase of 50% ownership share in Orange Cogen from AEP.  Orange Cogen is a 103 MW NG-fired QF located in City of Bartow FL.
      • Power Engineering Mar2004: agreed to purchase three power plants and stakes in 22 others from El Paso Corp.
  • ALCOA
  • Algonquin Power
  • Americas Power Partners Inc, APP
    • a group of 4 APP managers resigned to form a new company, Private Power LLC, PPL to pursue larger power projects; APP and PPL agreed to future cooperation
  • Arclight Capital Partners LLC
    • Boston based, invests private equity in electric power and energy-related assets and businesses
    • see also Denali Power LLC, this page
    • see also Atlantic Power Corporation, this page
    • 10/11/2005: Arch Coal (37.5%) and Arclight Capital (62.5%) form new coal company.  Magnum Coal to mine low-sulfur coal in the central Appalachian region
    • Ponifer Point Funding LLC
      • 9/3/2003: purchased 70% interest in Calpine's Aurburndale power plant for $86 million. Auburndale is a 150 MW NG-fired cogen plant 50 mi east of Tampa FL.  Power sold to Florida Power to 2013 and sells approximately 190,000 pounds of steam per hour to Florida Distillers and Cutrale Citrus Juices under long-term contracts that expire in 2009 and 2013, respectively.
    • Teton Power Funding LLC
      • 3/15/2004: to purchase 12 power plants from Aquila for $300.9 million
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003  purchased 12 QFs (643 MW) for $301 million from Aquila
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased Big Spring (34 MW) wind farm (TX) from York Power Funding.
  • Astoria Energy
  • Atlantic Energy Partners LLC
    • to manage Neptune Regional Transmission System (see NERC & Reliability Regions.)
  • Atlantic Power Corporation
    • Yahoo!Finance-ATP-UN.TO
    • a power income fund that owns interests in a portfolio of 15 power generation projects in US markets.  Affiliated with Arclight Capital.
    • Atlantic Power Holdings LLC
    • Atlantic Power Income Fund
    • 11/18/2004: Atlantic Power Corporation Completes $320,000,000 IPO
    • 8/11/2005: acquires 262 MW pulverized coal-fired cogen located at EI DuPont de Nemours & Co Chambers Works comples in southwest NJ, anticipated closing Sep 2005
  • AXOR
    • On October 4, 2002, Hydro Quebec Distribution announced selection of the Groupe Axor Inc and Calpine Canada Power Corp partnership and Hydro Quebec Production to supply 1200 MW commencing March 1, 2007.
      • Groupe AXOR Inc and Calpine Canada Power Corp Combined-cycle natural gas generating station Varennes 
        • 550 MW baseload deliveries 
        • 50 MW hourly dispatchable deliveries
      • HYDRO-QUEBEC PRODUCTION Hydroelectric generation Robert-Bourassa (LG-2) facilities, 
        • 350 MW baseload deliveries LG-1 generating station
        • 250 MW hourly dispatchable deliveries
  • Barclays Capital
    • 11/18/2005: to acquire substantially all of DENA's portfolio of derivitive contracts.
  • Bear Stearns
    • 11/09/2007: Bear Energy LP acquires remaining energy business of Williams Power Co.
    • 3/26/2004: acquired Utility Contract Funding (UCF) from El Paso Corp
    • 6/4/2003: formed Houston Energy Group to acquiring power generation Assets
    • Bear Energy LP
    • Houston Energy Group
    • Orange Power Holding LP, an affiliate of Bear Stearns
      • 5/7/2004: announced purchased 50% ownership share of Orange Cogen from AEP same date as Northstar Generation LLC (see AIG Global) purchase of 50% ownership share in Orange Cogen from El Paso.
  • Blackstone Group
  • Buckeye Partners LP
  • Burns & McDonnell (Kansas City MO)
    • Power Ventures Group LLC
  • Calpine
    • Yahoo! Finance - CPN
    • Yahoo! - Calpine Corp Company News
    • 4/18/2006: charges hit $7.1 billion.
    • 12/20/2005: filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
    • See also AXOR (this page) for Groupe Axor Inc and Calpine Canada Power Corp partnership
    • to acquire TriGas Exploration (Toronto, Canada), 11/16/2000
    • BAAQMD - Gilroy Energy Center LLC
    • Calgary Energy Center
    • Calpine to acquire TriGas Exploration Inc, 10/16/2000
    • Calpine Canada Energy Corp
    • Calpine Construction Finance Corp
    • Calpine Power Income Fund
      • Yahoo!Finance-CF_UN
      • Calpine Power Income Fund is an unincorporated open-ended trust that invests in electrical power generation assets. The Fund indirectly owns interests in two power generating facilities in British Columbia and Alberta and has a loan interest in a third power generating facility in Ontario. The Fund is managed by Calpine Canada Power Ltd., which is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.
      • Present assets include:
        Island Cogen Facility at Duncan Bay, BC Canada
        Calgary Energy Centre at Calgary, AB Canada
        50% interest in participating loan in Whitby Cogen at Whitby, ON Canada (50MW)
  • Cargill Energy
  • The Carlyle Group
  • CenterPoint Energy, formerly part of Reliant Energy, was moved to Texas page since it is no longer part of a multi-regional utility/entity.
  • CME North American Merchant Energy LLC
  • Cobisa Corporation
    • Founded 1987 as privately held independent power development company located in Houston TX
  • Competitive Power Ventures
  • Complete Energy Holdings
    • led by industry veterans Lori Cuervo, Peter Dailey, Milton Scott, and Hugh Tarpley, offices in Houston
    • see also equity investor Engage Investments LP
    • Complete Energy Partners LLC
      • offices in Houston, Pittsburgh, and Minneapolis
      • acquirer, owner and operator of power generation assets.
      • led by Peter Dailey, Milton Scott and Hugh Tarpley, managing partners, and Lori Cuervo, partner.
      • affiliated with Fulcrum Power Services LP for commercial energy services
      • afilliated with Power Plant Professionals LLC for plant operations of Batesville plant.
      • 5/18/2005: to acquire La Paloma power station in California from banks led by Citigroup for about $560 million in cash.  The banks obtained the plant under foreclosure from debtor.
      • 5/6/2004: agreement to purchase 100% interest in NRG Energy's 837 MW Batesville Electric Generating Facility in Batesville MS.  To close 3Q2004.  Output sold under contracts to both Virginia Electric and Power Company and Aquila Energy Marketing Corp.   To be operated by Complete Energy Partners
      • CEP Batesville Acquisition LLC
        • acquired Granite II Holding LLC which owned LSP Batesville Holding, LLC, which indirectly owns LSP Energy which owns and operates an 837 MW gas-fired combined-cycle electric generating facility located in Batesville
      • CEP La Paloma Operating Company LLC
        • 8/16/2005: completed acquisition of La Paloma Generating Company LLC. 1022 MW gas-fired four-unit combined-cycle project in Kern County California, approx 110 mi northwest of LA and 40 Mi west of Bakersfield.
      • LSP Energy LP
  • Composite Power
  • Coral Energy - see Natural Gas and Petroleum page under Shell
  • Delta Power Company
    • Yahoo!Finance-DeltaPower
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased Central Power & Lime (Brooksville, 150 MW) from Gregg Enterprises.
    • Delphi Power Partners (co-owned by Delta Power and John Hancock Financial Services
      • Pennwell Power Engineering magazine, Sept 2004: Delphi purchase Dynegy 50% interest in 123 MW Michigan Power gas-fired QF near Ludington Michigan.
    • White Pine Energy
      • Owns the other 50% interest in Michigan Power
  • Denali Power LLC
    • 7/27/2004: a company formed by affiliates of ArcLight and Caithness, to acquire NEGT's equity interests in 12 power plants and a natural gas pipeline for approximately $558 million
      • They include:
        • Carneys Point and Logan Generating plants located in New Jersey;
        • Selkirk and Madison Wind Generating plants located in New York;
        • Scrubgrass, Northampton and Panther Creek Generating plants located in Pennsylvania;
        • Cedar Bay and Indiantown plants located in Florida;
        • Hermiston plant, located in Oregon;
        • MASSPOWER plant, located in Massachusetts, and
        • Plains End Generating plant, located in Colorado.
        • Iroquois Gas Transmission System, a 375-mi interstate pipeline,  provides gas transportation service to local gas distribution companies, electric utilities and electric power generators, directly or indirectly through exchanges and interconnecting pipelines in New York and Connecticut
  • Denver City Energy Associates
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased Mustang Station (TX, 483 MW gross = 242 MW net) from NRG.
  • DKRW Energy LLC
    • DKRW Development
      • developer of the Sweetwater wind project in TX
      • Sweetwater 1 - 37.5 MW in Nolan County, COD 12/23/2003
      • Sweetwater 2 - 91.5 MW, COD Feb2005
      • Sweetwater 3 - 135 MW COD planned 2005
      • total Sweetwater development planned 400 MW
  • Dynegy Inc
  • Electric Power Development
    • J-Power USA Development
      • 4/5/2006: J-Power to acquires 62% ownership of Frontier plant while Diamond Generating (Mitsubishi sub) to own 28%, Tenaska to own 10%
  • Enbridge
  • Enel S.p.A. (Italy)
  • Energias de Portugal, S.A., EDP
  • Energy Authority, The - see The Energy Authority (below)
  • Energy Capital Partners
    • 5/18/2005: Doug Kimmelman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc investments in power assets, left the firm to launch a  private-equity firm investing in North American electricity assets. He will be joined by Scott Helm, a co-founder of Goldman's Orion Power Holdings joint venture, and Thomas Lane, a senior Goldman mergers and acquisitions advisor. Energy Capital is expected to set up offices in the New York, with other bankers and energy professionals, and will seek funds from investors.
    • possible name conflict with pre-existing Energy Capital Partners LP of Boston which is owned by Boston businessman Alan Leventhal and Fred Siegel
    • 7/24/2006: Northeast Utilities to Sell Competitive Generation Business to Energy Capital Partners
  • Energy Power Systems Limited
  • Engage Investments LP
    • private company, targets investment opportunities in power generation, natural gas pipelines, natural gas gathering/processing,natural gas storage facilities.
    • Engage is managed by Clark C. Smith and funded by the Erving Wolf family.
    • The Wolf family has been an active investor in the energy industry for more than 40 years
    • equity investor with Complete Energy Holdings LLC
  • Engage Energy
    • joint venture of The Coastal Corp of Houston and Westcoast Energy Inc of Vancouver BC
  • Ensearch Development Corp
  • Excelsior Energy
  • FirstLight Power Resources Inc
    • formerly NE Energy Inc
    • FirstLight Power Resources Inc. and its subsidiaries purchased approximately 1,442 megawatts of generating assets from Northeast Utilities in November 2006. FirstLight owns the 1,080-megawatt Northfield Mountain pumped- hydro storage facility located in Northfield, Mass.; the 146-megawatt coal- fired Mt. Tom Station in Holyoke, Mass.; and 13 additional predominantly hydro facilities along the Connecticut and Housatonic Rivers representing 216 megawatts in Conn. and Mass. FirstLight has 235 employees, approximately 110 in Conn. and 125 in Mass.
  • Florida Crystals
    • New Hope Power Partnership
      • located in South Bay, Florida, owns and operates the largest biomass cogeneration plant in the United States. The New Hope plant sells 500,000 MWh of electricity per year to the wholesale markets and provides process steam to the Okeelanta Sugar Mill and Refinery. Aces Power Marketing provides New Hope Power Partnership with power transaction execution services
    • 5/24/2005: Biomass-to-energy facility to expand
  • Fresno Nuclear Energy Group LLC
    • 12/18/2006: letter of intent to develop nuclear plant with UniStar Nuclear Development LLC in California's Central Valley despite a state moratorium on new nuclear plants
  • Fulcrum Power Services LP
    • energy management services
    • affiliated with Complete Energy Partners
  • Fulton Cogeneration Associates
    • limited partnership owned by subsidiaries of the Coastal Corp., acquired 79.6-MW Rensselaer cogeneration facility near Albany, N.Y.   The facility, primarily fueled by natural gas but capable of running on fuel oil, was acquired from LG&E Westmoreland Rensselaer, a California partnership. It also provides steam to an adjacent BASF Corp. plant
  • GC Power Acquisitions LLC
  • General Electric
    • GE Structured Finance
      • PUF Mar2004: purchased King City (CA, 115 MW gross = 69 MW net) for $82 million from Calpine.
      • PUF Mar2004: purchased Green County (OK, 810 MW gross = 729 MW net) for 97 million from Cogentrix
      • PUF Mar2004: purchased Birchwood (VA, 242 MW gross = 120 MW net) for $71 million from Mirant
  • GenPower LLC  (Needham MA based)
    • profile
    • Longview Power LLC
      • 9/24/2004: plans to build a $900 million coal-fired power plant by 2007 along the Monongahela River in Fort Martin area West Virginia.
  • Gila Bend Power Partners LLC (Gila Bend Power Project)
  • Global Energy Inc
  • Goldman Sachs - investment banking
    • April 2003: acquired  El Paso Corp subsidiary East Coast Power LLC for $456 million.
      • East Coast Power owns 940 MW NG-fired cogeneration facility in Linden NJ which supplies power to NYC and NJ.
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased 26 plants (3300 MW) for $456 million from Cogentrix
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased East Coast Power (Linden, 940 MW) for $456 million from Elpaso Merchant
    • Cogentrix
    • GS Linden Power Holdings LLC
    • J Aron & Company
      • commodities sales and trading subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc
  • Great Northern Power Corp
  • Great Northern Power Development LP
    • Chuck Kerr, CEO
      601 Jefferson St., Ste. 3600
      Houston, TX 77002
      ckerr at quintanaminerals.com
      Phone: (713) 751-7590
    • South Heart Coal LLC
      • based in Bismark ND
      • 8/18/2005: filed application with ND Dept of Health for construction permit for 500 MW lignite-fired generating plant near South Heart ND
  • Great River Energy, Minnesota G&T Cooperative -- see Minnesota page
    • Split Rock Energy
      • wholesale marketer in the MISO, PJM, SPP, SERC, NYISO, NEPOOL, and Ontario IMO.
  • GTCR
  • GW Power Corporation
    • private Alberta-based company focused on the development and management of economic, environmental power projects in Canada.
    • Guido C Bachman, President, 403-264-9599
  • GWF Energy LLC
    • GWF Energy LLC is owned as a partnership between PSEG Global of Parsippany NJ and privately held Harbert Cogen of Birmingham Alabama
    • GWF Energy LLC is also name of 90 MW plant in Hanford CA in Central Valley
  • GWF Power Systems LP, Pittsburg CA
  • Hafslund Energy Trading LLC
  • Harbert Management Corp
    • Harbert Power Corp
    • Harbinger Independent Power Fund I LLC (four plants)
    • Kelson Holding
      • 12/6/2006: Winning bider for auction of Calpine Aries Power Plant, 590 MW
      • 8/9/2005: purchased US assets of Intergen, joint venture of Shell and Bechtel
  • Indeck Energy Services Inc
  • Independent Energy Partners Inc
  • Innergex
    • Innergex Power Income Fund
      • 4/8/2004: to acquire Hydro-Windsor Inc, a 5.5 MW hydroelectric power station located on the St-François River near the town of Windsor in the Province of Québec. Hydro-Windsor will increase the expected annual energy production of the Fund by 31,000 MWh or 8.9% and its installed capacity by 5.5MW or 8.5%. Electricity produced is delivered to Hydro-Québec under a long-term Purchase Agreement maturing 2016 and renewable feature to 2036
  • Interline Resources Corp
    • Interline Energy LLC
    • Interline Energy Services
  • International Power PLC
  • Itochu Corporation
  • Juniper Generation LLC
    • Juniper Generation is a special purpose holding company created to issue secured debt and hold equity interests in 10 gas-fired Qualifying Facilities (QFs). The output from nine QFs is sold under power purchase agreements with PG&E and the output of the remaining QF is sold under a PPA with Southern California Edison. Juniper is 51% owned by Mesquite Investors, which is indirectly owned by El Paso Corp and Limestone Electron Trust. The remaining 49% is held by a financial investor.
  • Khanjee Holdings
    • EnviroPower LLC
      • 3/16/2005 (Platts): limited construction and construction delay for a year on Kentucky Mountain Power, 2x 525 MW coal-fired plants in Kentucky and Illinois, while ownership change of EnviroPower goes to Khanjee Holdings
  • Koch Industries, Inc., a privately-held company based in Wichita, KS.
  • Lehman Merchant Banking Partners
  • Lightyear Capital LLC
    • Yahoo!Finance-LightyearCapital
    • Power Engineering Mar2004: acquired Ripon Cogeneration from Tractebel Power Inc.  Ripon Cogen owns and operates 47 MW gas-fired Rion facility in San Joaquin county CA and 41 MW gas-fired San Gabriel in Pomona.
  • LS Power Group
    • LS Power Development LLC
      • East Brunswick NJ
      • successor to LS Power Corp
      • LS Power Associates LP
        • White Pine Energy
          • 04/15/2005: White Pine acquired an option to purchase Idaho Power land and permit rights associated with the Southwest Intertie Project (SWIP) corridor in Nevada and Idaho.
        • Plum Point Energy Associates LLC
          • 800 MW pulverized coal, expected completion 2008
    • LS Power Equity Partners
      • purchased DENA assets (about 6200 MW) outside of midwest for approx $1.5B
  • Marson Energy - portable generators
  • Maxim Power Corp (Canadian)
    • based in Calgary (TSXV:MXG)
    • 04/07/2005: purchases 97% interest in Basin Creek power plant 52 MW, Butte's Industrial Park.  First acquisition within the USA. Output to Northwestern Energy.  Construction to begin within the month.
    • 01/27/03: currently owns and operates 59 megawatts of generating capacity in Canada, Europe and Asia and has more than 100 megawatts of electricity generation under evaluation and development.
    • 01/22/03: agreement w/ Gesellschaft Fur Biogas und Umwelttechnik mbH ("GBU") of Bensheim Germany to build/own/operate 5.5 MW biogas fuel power project in northern Germany.
    • COMAX France SAS
      • Energeia S.A.
      • Societe Electrique D'Arnas S.A.
      • Cogenia S.A.S.
  • Mega-Energy Inc
    • based in Ft. Collins, Colorado
  • Merrill Lynch
  • MIECO Inc
  • Mirant Corporation
  • Mitsubishi Corporation
    • Diamond Generating Corp (Los Angeles CA) formed by Mitsubishi and Tenaska
  • MMC Energy LLC
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc - power marketer
    • 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY 10020 212-296-2554
    • Southeastern Electric Development Corp
      • Smiths (Alabama power plant, 100 MW NG CT peaker)
  • Morris Energy Group, MEG
  • National Energy Systems Co
  • National Grid Group PLC
  • National Power PLC (UK)
    • de-merged into:
    • American National Power
  • Navasota Holdings Texas Partners
  • NE Energy
  • New World Power Corp
    • an independent power producer focused on distributed power generation facilities that are mobile and modular.
  • Newport Generation Inc
    • Established in February 2000, Newport Generation is an independent power producer with offices in Southern California and Charlottesville, VA.
    • Newport Northwest LLC
      • 4/16/2001: Plans to build 1,300 MW power plant in Rathdrum, ID, 32 miles northeast of Spokane WA.  The Kootenai Power Project is planned for a portion of a 320-acre site adjacent to a new 250 MW power plant currently under construction and owned by Avista Energy Inc. and Cogentrix.  Newport Northwest has been actively involved in regional power project development over the past year and currently is developing a similar power plant, the Wallula Power Project, in western Walla Walla County, WA.
      • Palestine 1600 MW CCGT gas-fired approx 7.5 mi NE of City of Palestine in Anderson County TX, between Dallas and Houston, ERCOT, Phase 1, June 2003 = 800 MW, Phase II, June 2004 = add 800 MW.
      • Thurderbird 865 MW CCGT gas-fired approx 0.5 mi S of Hiway9 in SE corner of Cleveland County OK, 50 mi SE of Oklahoma City, 3x1 CCGT, Summer 2003, financial closing expected Q3-2001
      • Wallulla, 1300 MW CCGT gas-fired in Walla Walla County WA, 15 mi S of Pasco, 2x1 CCGT 1000 MW with 300 MW supplemental firing capacity. June 2004 COD, Financial closing expected June 2002,
    • Projects
  • NewPower Holdings Inc, formerly TNPC Inc, name change 1/22/2001
  • NORESCO
  • North American Power Group
  • Northwestern Wind Power
  • Nuclear Management Company, NMC
    • owned by:
      • Alliant Energy Corp
      • CMS Energy Corp
      • Wisconsin Energy Corp
      • WPS Resources Corp
      • Xcel Energy Inc.
    • Palisades nuclear (789 MW) will join NMC, 11/9/2000
    • covers:
      • Kewaunee
      • Point Beach - northeast Wisconsin
      • Monticello
      • Prairie Island - near Minneapolis, Minn
      • Duane Arnold Energy Center - near Cedar Rapids Iowa
  • NuCoastal Power Group LLC (of Houston)
    • 12/19/2006: acquired La Palma power plant, Lon C Hill power plant, JL Bates power plant (Mission TX), Victoria Power Station (Victoria TX) from Topaz Power Group LLC.
  • Nukem Inc of Danbury Connecticut
  • Panda Energy International
  • Peoples Energy - see Natural Gas page
  • Phelps Dodge
    • Copper producer
    • November 2004: PNM, TEP and Phelps Dodge each became 1/3 owners in Luna Energy Facility upon purchase and renaming of 570 MW Duke Energy Deming plant.
  • Pinelawn Power LLC
    • Pinelawn Power LLC
      C/O Harbert Power LLC
      One Riverchase Parkway
      Birmingham, AL 35244
    • joint venture of DiFazio Electric Inc of Deer Park and Harbert Power LLC of Birmingham AL
    • 7/13.2005: completes construction of 79 MW dual-fuel (NG/kerosene) CCCT GE LM6000 SPRINT CT and Once Through Steam Generator, supplemental duct burner and steam turbine, in the town's solid waste management complex within the Pinelawn Industrial Area, town of Babylon and Suffolk County.  Facility: Pinelawn Power, 300 Patton AVE|NEXT to Babylon Resource Recovery, Pinelawn, NY.  Output purchaser Long Island Power Authority
  • Power Plant Professionals LLC
    • power plant operations
    • headquartered near Charlotte, NC, in Fort Mill, SC
    • affiliated with Complete Energy Partners for operation of Batesville plant
  • Reliant Resources - unregulated - dba Reliant Energy
    • Yahoo!Finance - RRI
    • completed acquisition of Orion Power Holdings Inc 2/19/2002
    • Orion Power Holdings
      • Yahoo! Finance - ORN
      • former ownership:
        Goldman Sachs Group Inc 38.8%
        Constellation Energy 17.3%
        Mitsubishi Corp 7.3%
        Tokyo Electric Power 4.9%
      • $1.7 Billion purchase of Duquesne power plants April 2000
        • 2,614 MW Pennsylvania and Ohio
    • Reliant Energy Solutions
  • Renewable Generation Holdings
    • RGI Inc
    • wind project development company based in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2002, the company is active in Texas and the Southwest and Southeast US
  • Reservoir Capital Group (of New York City)
    • 9/29/2004: Exelon exercises option to purchase Reservoir Capital's 50% interest in Sithe.
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased 15 plants (941 MW gross = 470.5 MW net) for $75.8 million
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased 6 power plants = 214 MW for $46 million from Sithe includes Naval Station, Training Center, Naval Oxnard, North Island, Greeley, Kenilworth and a 157 MW merchant plant.
  • Riverstone Holdings
    • see also Carlyle Group
    • partner in the Topaz Group
  • Rockland Capital Partners
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased Prime Energy (NJ, 66 MW gross - 33 MW net) for $46 million from Aquila.
    • RC Cape May Holdings
      • 2/9/2007: final purchase of BL England Generating Station from Atlantic City Electric Company (subsidiary of Pepco Holdings Inc)
  • RWE Trading Americas - see RWE (German utility) on Non-North America page
  • Saracen Energy Partners LP
    • Houston-based, founded by former Vitol Group Vice-Chairman Neil Kelley and former Vitol Gas & Electric President Michael Kutsch to make targeted investments in the energy sector. Saracen's initial focus is the establishment of a petroleum marketing business in the Midwest with the broader goal of establishing a multi-commodity energy trading and marketing company. The company will participate in the physical and financial energy markets in North America, with a customer focused strategy to capture and protect value around energy transportation, storage and conversion assets
    • $/13/2004: Acquired $23 million energy assets from Williams
  • SCS Energy LLC
    • Astoria Energy
      • 04/19/2004: Astoria Energy is fully permitted 1000 MW facility, phase I = 500 MW NG-fired power plant in Astoria section of Queens NY,  US$980 Million construction financing closed enabling construction.  Estimated commercial date = 2006 in ConEd territory.  Construction by Shaw Group.  Equity by SNC-Lavalin Generation (US$50 Million), CDP Capital-Americas and Energy Investors Funds, on behalf of the United States Power Fund, L.P. SCS Energy LLC and AE Investors LLC are project sponsors as well as equity partners.
      • NYState Public Service Commission on Astoria Energy
  • Sherritt International Corp
  • SNC-Lavalin Group Inc
    • SNC-Lavalin Generation Inc
      • 4/16/2004: purchase4 US$60 Million equity position in Astoria Energy project (500MW NG-fired power plant in Astoria section of Queens, New York.  Equity partners in Astoria Energy are CDP Capital-Americas and Energy Investors Funds on behalf of the United States Power Fund, LP SCS Energy LLC and AE Investors LLC are project sponsors as well as equity partners.
    • SNC-Lavalin International
  • Societe Generale <SOGN.PA>
    • French bank - lead bank in a consortium of banks financing four of PG&E National Energy Group construction projects
    • MACH Gen LLC
      • To foreclose on PG&E NEG power plant construction loans.
      • "MACH" stands for Millenium, Athens, Covert, Harquahala which were owned by PG&E National Energy Group, financed by the consortium led by Societe Generale
  • SolArc - trading company
  • Southeast Idaho Energy Company LLC
    • formed to develop 520 MW IGCC coal power plant near Pocatello ID at former FMC site.  Ramesh Raman, President
  • Southern Union Co
    • Multi-area natural gas distribution company owns electric utility, Carribean Gulf and Atlantic coasts
    • PEI Power Corp
      • Landfill gas (methane) recovery plant opened in mid-1998 after converting from an anthracite culm-burning facility to one that utilizes natural and methane gases, (25 MW gross) 21 MW connected to PJM interconnection. Steam is sold to occupants of PEI Power Park
      • PEI Power II LLC = joint venture Cayuga Energy and PEI Power Corp adds 45 MW LM6000 to existing 25 MW cogen unit which burns landfill gas and NG, May 29, 2001.
    • PEI Power II LLC
      • PEI Power Corp, a subsidiary of Southern Union Co (NYSE:SUG) and Cayuga Energy Inc (subsidiary of Energy East Corp
      • Joint venture to build and operate a merchant 45 MW peaking power plant near Scranton PA at the site of PEI Power Corp's 25 MW Archbald plant using NG in PJM, in service May 2001.
  • Southwestern Power Group II LLC
  • Split Rock Energy
    • power marketing and trading co that serves  Great River Energy electric cooperative based in Elk River, Minn, and Minnesota Power based in Duluth, Minn
  • Starwood Capital
  • Suez
  • Summit Energy
  • Suncor Energy Inc
    • Canadian energy company based in Calgary AB Canada
  • The Energy Authority, TEA
    • non-profit power marketing agency of member owned utilities
    • members:
      JEA (Jacksonville Electric Authority),
      Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power),
      Santee Cooper (South Carolina state-owned electric and water utility)
      Nebraska Public Power District.
      Gainesville Regional Utilities - new
      City Utilities of Springfield - new
  • Tenaska
  • Tenaska Oxy Power Services LP, TOPS
    • JV of Tenaska Power Services (TPS) and Occidental Energy Ventures Corp (OEVC), 4/29/2002
  • Texas Independent Energy LP, TIE
    • joint venture Panda Energy International of Dallas (50%) and PSEG Global of New Jersey (50%)
    • 7/27/2004: TECO Energy to sell its 50% interest in Texas Independent Energy to PSEG.  TIE operates two 1000 MW plants in Texas, Guadalupe and Odesa
    • Guadalupe Plant
    • Odessa commercial 8/27/2001
  • Texas Pacific Group
  • Thermo Electron Corp
    • Thermo Ecotek
      • merged with Thermo Electron, August 15, 2000
      • Southern Energy to provide 120 MW to CA under tolling agreement with Thermo Ecotek, 1/10/2001
  • TM Power Ventures LLC, TMPV
  • Tondu Corporation
    • Tondu Corp is a privately held project development company
  • TransAlta
    • Yahoo! Finance - TA.TO, Yahoo! Finance - ta.v, Yahoo!Finance-TAC
    • recently divested retail service area to become wholesale generator
    • see also CE Generation [CalEnergy Generation] under MidAmerican
    • 4/13/2000 announced purchase of remaining 50% Merchant Energy Group of the Americas, MEGA
    • purchased Centralia power plant (US)
    • PUF Mar2004: In 2003, purchased 13 CE Generation geothermal and NG-fired plants (AZ, CA, NY, TX, 820 MW gross = 410 MW net) for $240 million from El Paso Merchant.
    • TransAlta Campeche SA de CV - to own and operate 250 MW NG fired plant in Campeche Mexico
    • TransAlta Cogen LP (TA Cogen) - 49.9% owned by Transalta
      • owns three Ontario cogeneration facilities and a 60 per cent interest in the Fort Saskatchewan cogeneration plant
      • 11/15/2004: to purchase TransAlta Corp 50% in Meridian Cogen.  Power from Meridian Cogen sold to SaskPower through 2024 and steam to a heavy oil upgrader at Lloydminster SK through 2024.
    • TransAlta Power LP
    • Generation
    • Vision Quest Windelectric Inc
      • Private Canadian Co in Calgary.  Active in Alberta, interests in wind power projects in other provinces.  Owns fleet of 27 wind turbine power plants. 
  • Tribal Energy Development LLC
    • Robert M Adler, general partner Washington DC law firm O'Connor & Hannan LLP and President of Tribal Energy Development LLC
    • works with Tribes to explore development of electric energy projects
  • Tyr Energy Inc
    • 6/11/03: Itochu International signed agreement with privately-owned Tyr Energy Inc allowing both parties to manage electricity generation assets in the United States
  • UBS Warburg
  • UMS Group
    • 6/21/2004: to purchase Oncor consulting and asset managment unit from TXU
  • Unisource Energy Corp
  • UniStar Nuclear Development
    • joint venture between Constellation and Areva Inc.
    • 12/18/2006: letter of intent to develop nuclear plant with Fresno Nuclear in California's Central Valley despite a state moratorium on new nuclear plants
  • United American Energy
    • privately held
  • USEC, Inc.
    • supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power
  • US Energy Corp
  • US Power Generating Company
    • Astoria Generating Co
      • Astoria Generating is comprised of three operating electric power generation facilities: the Astoria Generating Station, the Gowanus Gas Turbine Facility (“Gowanus”) and the Narrows Gas Turbine Facility (“Narrows”). All the facilities are located in New York City (Zone J). The Astoria portfolio has an aggregate summer net capacity rating of 2,098 MW and winter net capacity rating of 2,364 MW
    • EBG Holdings LLC
      • owned 90% by existing lenders and 10% by K Road Power Inc
      • Boston Generating LLC
  • Utility Corporation
    • ScotiaManagedCompanies
    • Utility Corp is a mutual fund corporation whose investment portfolio consists of publicly-listed common shares of selected Canadian utility companies. The Class C Shares of Utility Corp. are listed for trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol UTC.C
  • Walters Power International
  • Wayzata Investment Partners
    • 7/12/2006: Construction resumes on 285 MW Mint Farm Generation in Cowlitz County WA

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