{"id":282,"date":"2026-01-11T13:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/constellation-completes-acquisition-of-calpine-groups-have-55-gw-of-generation-capacity\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:39:18","slug":"constellation-completes-acquisition-of-calpine-groups-have-55-gw-of-generation-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/constellation-completes-acquisition-of-calpine-groups-have-55-gw-of-generation-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Constellation Completes Acquisition of Calpine; Groups Have 55 GW of Generation Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major U.S. utility Constellation said it has completed its acquisition of Calpine Corp. from Energy Capital Partners (ECP), creating the nation\u2019s largest producer of electricity. The companies on January 7 noted that the transaction, first announced as a $16.4-billion deal a year ago, unites Constellation\u2019s nuclear power fleet with Calpine\u2019s natural gas-fired and geothermal generation. The cash-and-stock deal, when including debt, has a total value of $26.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/constellation-completes-acquisition-of-calpine-groups-have-55-gw-of-generation-capacity\/\">Constellation Completes Acquisition of Calpine; Groups Have 55 GW of Generation Capacity<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"480\" height=\"332\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"NineMilePoint_Aerial_Constellation-Businesswire\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ninemilepoint-aerial-constellation-businesswire.jpeg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ninemilepoint-aerial-constellation-businesswire.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ninemilepoint-aerial-constellation-businesswire-300x208.jpeg 300w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major U.S. utility Constellation said it has completed its acquisition of Calpine Corp. from Energy Capital Partners (ECP), creating the nation\u2019s largest producer of electricity. The companies on Ja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesdelahooke.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}