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Photovoltaic Facility Proposed by LS Power Will Deliver up to 130 Megawatts of Clean Energy to San Diego Across Sunrise Powerlink San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) today announced that it has signed a 20-year power-purchase agreement with an LS Power subsidiary to procure up to...

LAS VEGAS – NV Energy (NYSE:NVE) and Great Basin Transmission, LLC, an affiliate of LS Power, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly own a 500 kilovolt transmission line in Nevada. NV Energy would purchase Great Basin’s share of capacity on the jointly owned...

The LS Power Group (“LS Power”) and Southern Power completed their previously announced transaction related to the West Georgia and DeSoto generating plants. Southern Power acquired the West Georgia plant from LS Power in exchange for the DeSoto plant and other proceeds. The West Georgia...

LS Power announced today that it is taking steps to develop the LaSalle Transmission Project (“LaSalle”), a new 345 kilovolt (kV) transmission project connecting Illinois and Indiana. The project is intended to facilitate renewable energy development within the region. LaSalle is an approximately 160-mile transmission...

December 1, 2009 – The LS Power Group (“LS Power”) completed its purchase of several generating assets from Dynegy adding approximately 4,500 megawatts of capacity to LS Power’s electricity generating portfolio. The generating assets acquired from Dynegy include the following: Arlington Valley (Arizona) – 579 megawatt...

LS Power affiliate Great Basin Transmission, LLC (“Great Basin”) announced today that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Western Area Power Administration (“Western”), a power marketing administration of the U.S. Department of Energy. Under the MOU Great Basin and Western are...

LS Power is pleased to announce the winner of the 2009 Plum Point Energy Station Scholarship for Academic Excellence. "We are excited to be awarding the 2009 Scholarship to Osceola High School graduating senior, Sarah R. Hearod, based on her academic achievements, extra curriculum activities,...

LS Power announced today the closing of its purchase of the rights to the Wyoming-Colorado Intertie Project. The Wyoming-Colorado Intertie Project consists of a proposed 850 megawatt (MW) transmission line extending approximately 180 miles between Laramie River Station Substation located at Wheatland, Wyoming, and...

LS Power affiliate Great Basin Transmission, LLC (“GBT”) is pleased to announce a second Open Season for the purchase of long-term point-to-point transmission rights on the Southwest Intertie Project (“SWIP”). Successful bidders in the second Open Season (“Open Season 2”) will secure firm transmission rights...

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) today issued an order selecting transmission service providers to construct, operate and maintain an estimated $4.9 billion in new electric transmission infrastructure to deliver renewable energy from competitive renewable-energy zones (CREZs) to electric customers in Texas. The...