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Tenaska Employee-Owners Buy One-Third of Wind Farm - May 13, 2008

Employee-owners of Tenaska recently entered into commitments to fund and own one-third of the Elkhorn Ridge Wind Farm, now under construction near Bloomfield, Nebraska, Tenaska has announced. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund and Warburg Pincus Sell Generating Facilities - May 12, 2008

Tenaska Capital Management, LLC (Tenaska Capital), manager of the Tenaska Power Fund, L. P. (TPF), announced today that a subsidiary of TPF and an affiliate of Warburg Pincus LLC (Warburg Pincus) have entered into an agreement to sell APT Generation, a portfolio of three electric generating plants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund to Sell Illinois Plant to Indiana Cooperatives - April 14, 2008

Tenaska Capital Management, LLC (TCM), on behalf of the Tenaska Power Fund, L.P. (TPF), today announced the sale of Holland Energy, a 665-megawatt generating station in Illinois, to Indiana electric cooperatives Wabash Valley Power and Hoosier Energy. More ...

Tenaska Announces Changes in Company’s Operations Group - March 19, 2008

Michael C. Lebens, a key Tenaska manager since the company’s formation in 1987, has been named president and chief executive officer of Tenaska’s Operations Group, effective April 1, 2008. More ...

Tenaska BioFuels Acquisition Will Enhance Company Marketing, Transportation and Storage Capabilities - March 05, 2008

Tenaska BioFuels, LLC (TBF) of Omaha has acquired the business of Edible Oil Marketing, LLC (EOM), an Omaha-based biodiesel and vegetable oil marketing and trading company. EOM is active in trading various oils derived from corn, soybeans, sunflowers and palm. The acquisition will also provide TBF with additional biofuels transportation and storage assets, including railcars and terminal storage facilities in Hammond, Indiana, and St. Rose, Louisiana, said TBF Vice President and General Manager Dave Neubauer. More ...

Tenaska Proposes Nation’s First New Conventional Coal-fueled Power Plant to Capture Carbon Dioxide - February 19, 2008

Captured CO₂ would be sequestered in the Permian Basin and help recover more than $1 billion of West Texas oil annually.

Tenaska, Inc. is developing a site near Sweetwater, Texas, upon which to construct a technologically advanced coal-fueled electric generating plant able to capture up to 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO₂) that would otherwise enter the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide would be sold for use in enhancing oil production in the Permian Basin, resulting in geologic storage. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund Completes Sale Of Commonwealth Chesapeake Power Station to Tyr Energy - February 14, 2008

Sale of the Commonwealth Chesapeake Power Station in New Church, Va., by Tenaska Power Fund, L.P. (TPF) of Omaha, Neb., to Tyr Energy, Inc. (Tyr Energy) of Overland Park, Kan., has been completed. More ...

Environmental Appeals Board Denies Sierra Club Appeal, Grants Taylorville Energy Center Final Air Permit - January 31, 2008

Project Can Begin Once Illinois Lawmakers Act

In a critical milestone for the development of clean coal technologies, the U.S. Environmental Appeals Board denied the Sierra Club’s appeal of the air permit granted to the Taylorville Energy Center. The project is now poised to move forward once enabling legislation is passed by the Illinois General Assembly. More ...

Taylorville Energy Center Developer Applauds Decision to Locate FutureGen in Illinois - December 18, 2007

Work done in pursuit of project paves way for future clean coal projects

Tenaska, managing developer of the proposed Taylorville Energy Center, today congratulated state and local officials on the awarding of the FutureGen federal energy lab to Mattoon, Illinois. More ...

Statement of John Thompson, Clean Air Task Force Director of Coal Transition Project on Mattoon FutureGen Selection - December 18, 2007

“I congratulate Mattoon and the State of Illinois on winning the FutureGen competition. FutureGen is an important step toward changing coal from global warming problem to global warming solution. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund to Sell Commonwealth Chesapeake Power Station to Tyr Energy - December 17, 2007

Tenaska Power Fund, L.P. (TPF) has agreed to sell the Commonwealth Chesapeake Power Station in New Church, Virginia, to Tyr Energy, Inc. (“Tyr Energy”) of Overland Park, Kansas. More ...

Chestnut Ridge Storage LLC Files FERC Application To Develop 25 Bcf Natural Gas Storage Facility - December 17, 2007

Chestnut Ridge Storage LLC on Friday filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for authorization to construct its high-performance Junction Natural Gas Storage Facility (Junction) located near Uniontown, in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. More ...

Dominion Agrees To Purchase Tenaska Power Station Development Project In Buckingham County, Va. - December 05, 2007

Dominion (NYSE: D), one of the nation’s largest producers of energy, announced Wednesday that it has agreed to purchase a power station development project in central Virginia from Tenaska, one of the nation’s largest independent power producers. The station will generate about 600 megawatts of electricity when completed. More ...

New Pennsylvania Gas Storage Facility Launches Non-Binding Open Season - September 17, 2007

Chestnut Ridge Storage LLC today launched a non-binding open season for up to 25 billion cubic feet of new gas storage capacity at the proposed Junction Natural Gas Storage Facility (Junction) being developed in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. More ...

DTE Energy Services, ArcLight Capital Partners sell two power plants to Tenaska Capital Management affiliates - August 09, 2007

DTE Energy Services Inc. and ArcLight Capital Partners LLC have signed agreements to sell their interests in 984 megawatts of power generation facilities near Chicago to affiliates of Tenaska Capital Management LLC. More ...

Clean Coal Supporters Applaud Illinois Senate On Legislation; House Action Now Needed for Taylorville Energy Center - July 27, 2007

A diverse coalition of labor, civic, environmental and coal industry leaders today commended the Illinois Senate for its overwhelming passage without opposition of HB 3388, the Clean Coal Development Program Law, and asked the House to pass the bill this session so the Taylorville Energy Center could move forward this year. The law would support privately developed clean coal Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plants in Illinois such as the Taylorville project. More ...

Conectiv Energy Asks To Compete For Wind Project - July 03, 2007

Conectiv Energy has assembled a team of experienced project developers who are prepared to compete to establish an offshore wind park to serve as a long-term power supply for Delaware customers of Delmarva Power. More ...

Gov. Blagojevich announces landmark air permit for clean-coal gasification power plant in Taylorville - June 05, 2007

Construction authorized for innovative low emissions facility that will create jobs, revitalize Illinois coal industry as part of Governor’s Energy Independence Plan

Taking a bold step toward putting Illinois on a path toward a cleaner, more energy independent future, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today announced that the Illinois EPA has issued an Air Construction Permit to Christian County Generation, LLC. The permit, the first issued in the U.S. for a commercially-sized Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power generating plant, authorizes Christian County Generation to build the $2 billion gasification plant known as the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC). More ...

Tenaska Power Fund, eCORP Announce Major Gas Storage Development - June 04, 2007

Tenaska Power Fund, L P. (TPF) of Omaha and eCORP, LLC of Houston, Texas today announced plans to develop a major new high-performance natural gas storage facility near Uniontown in southwestern Pennsylvania. More ...

Clean Coal Plant In Taylorville Would Be Economic Boon, NIU Study Finds - May 15, 2007

Project would revitalize state’s coal industry while providing thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in investment for Central Illinois.

A proposed clean coal power plant in Taylorville, Illinois, would be an economic boon to the region, according to a study released today by Northern Illinois University (NIU). The study examines the likely economic impact of the construction and operation of the Taylorville Energy Center, a 630 megawatt power generation facility to be built by Christian County Generation, LLC (CCG). More ...

Caledonia Gas Storage Facility Placed in Service - May 02, 2007

The Caledonia Gas Storage Field, a facility in Northeast Mississippi capable of storing 11.7 billion cubic feet of working natural gas, was placed in service on May 1, 2007, Caledonia Energy Partners, L.L.C. (CEP) has announced. More ...

Tenaska Gas Marketing-AIG Partnership Completed - April 03, 2007

Tenaska Energy (Tenaska) announced today that AIG Financial Products Corp. (AIG-FP), a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has closed its purchase of a 49 percent partnership interest in Tenaska Marketing Ventures, Tenaska Marketing Canada and Tenaska Gas Storage (collectively TMV). The signing of this transaction was announced on March 15, 2007. More ...

New Tenaska Marketing-AIG Partnership Will Combine Strengths to Promote Growth - March 15, 2007

Tenaska Energy (Tenaska) announced today that AIG Financial Products Corp. (AIG-FP), a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has signed an agreement to purchase a 49 percent partnership interest in Tenaska Marketing Ventures, Tenaska Marketing Canada and Tenaska Gas Storage (collectively TMV). More ...

Tenaska Power Fund and Warburg Pincus Complete Acquisition Of Three Dominion Electric Generating Stations - March 06, 2007

A subsidiary of Tenaska Power Fund, L.P. (TPF), and an affiliate of Warburg Pincus LLC (Warburg Pincus) have completed their acquisition of three electric generating stations from Dominion (NYSE:D) of Richmond, Va. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund and Warburg Pincus Agree To Join Acquisition Of Three Dominion Electric Generating Stations - December 21, 2006

A subsidiary of Tenaska Power Fund, L.P. (TPF), and an affiliate of Warburg Pincus LLC, have jointly signed an agreement to acquire three electric generating stations from Dominion of Richmond, Va. The three plants include the 625-megawatt (MW) Armstrong plant in Armstrong County, Pa.; the 313-MW Pleasants plant in Pleasants County, W.Va.; and the 600-MW Troy plant in Wood County, Ohio. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund Completes Acquisition of Six Power Plants From Constellation Energy - December 15, 2006

Tenaska Power Fund, L.P. (TPF) has completed the $1.64 billion acquisition of six power plants from Constellation Energy. The plants are an excellent addition to TPF’s portfolio which includes power plants, gas storage facilities and national infrastructure construction and maintenance companies. More ...

InfrastruX Group Expands Leading Infrastructure Services Business with Acquisition of Hawkeye - November 06, 2006

InfrastruX Group, a national provider of utility infrastructure construction and maintenance services, today announced that it has acquired Hawkeye, LLC, a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based company operating in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states that offers construction services to the utility industry and state and local municipalities. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund Acquires Power Plant Portfolio For $1.6 Billion From Constellation Energy - October 11, 2006

Tenaska Capital Management, LLC, on behalf of the Tenaska Power Fund, L. P., announced today that the Fund has signed an agreement to acquire 3,145 megawatts of natural gas-fired generation assets from Constellation Energy for $1.635 billion in cash, subject to closing adjustments. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund Acquires Puget Energy's InfrastruX Group - May 02, 2006

Tenaska Capital Management, LLC, on behalf of the Tenaska Power Fund, L. P. (TPF), announced today that TPF has signed an agreement to acquire InfrastruX Group, Inc., a leading national provider of infrastructure construction services to utility industries, from Puget Energy, Inc. More ...

Caledonia Energy Partners Announces Storage Capacity Open Season; Tenaska to Provide Marketing Services - April 20, 2006

Caledonia Energy Partners, L.L.C. has announced an open season for 1.7 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of available working natural gas storage capacity at the Caledonia gas storage facility, under development near Caledonia, Mississippi. More ...

Tenaska Power Fund Announces Ownership in Caledonia Gas Storage Project - April 20, 2006

Tenaska Capital Management, LLC, manager of the Tenaska Power Fund, L. P. (TPF), announced today that TPF has signed an agreement to purchase a 50 percent ownership interest in Caledonia Energy Partners, L.L.C., which is converting a depleted natural gas reservoir near Caledonia, Mississippi, into a high-deliverability, multi-cycle gas storage facility. More ...