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Calpine Closes Texas Energy Fund Loan for 460-MW Pin Oak Creek Peaking Facility

LCG, October 14, 2025--Calpine Corporation today announced the close of a Texas Energy Fund (TxEF) loan agreement to support development of the Pin Oak Creek project, a 460-MW, natural gas-fired peaking facility adjacent to Calpine's Freestone Energy Center, a gas-fired combined-cycle facility located on approximately 506 acres near Fairfield, Texas.

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Greenflash Infrastructure Closes Transaction for ERCOT's Largest Battery Storage Project Under Construction

LCG, October 7, 2025--Greenflash Infrastructure, L.P. ("Greenflash") today announced that it has successfully closed a hybrid tax capital and debt financing for Project Soho - a 400MW / 800MWh standalone battery storage project in Texas.

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Private Equity Firm to Buy Eight Duke Power Plants

LCG, May 5, 2004--Duke Energy has said that it will reduce its ownership of merchant power plants by one-third, completely divesting itself of such plants in the southeastern U.S., after completing a planned sale of eight facilities to a private equity fund.

The sale, to the fund MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners II, brings the total value of asset sales either announced or closed by Duke Energy to approximately $2.5 billion this year. The plants to be sold burn natural gas, are located in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi, and have a total capacity of 5,325 megawatts.

The completion of the sale is expected in the third quarter of the year, following the approval of each plant's sale by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the approval of the deal by the Federal Trade Commission.

The MatlinPatterson fund was started by a former banker with Credit Suisse First Boston, David Matlin, in autumn of 2003. Initially, its investments centered on distressed debt of companies such as MCI, formerly WorldCom. The fund will reportedly acquire the Duke plants for $475 million.
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