M And A News 

• Central Vermont Snags Hydropower Assets, Retail Book September 02, 2010 

  Central Vermont Public Service Corp. has agreed to purchase a retail book and hydropower assets from a unit of Omya Industries, a Swiss mineral processing company, for $32 million in cash.

• JPMorgan Unit Chases Mich. NatGas Acquisition September 01, 2010 

  A JPMorgan investment vehicle is buying out the lessee and lessor of a 550 MW combined-cycle facility in Jackson, Mich.

• Shell Hawks Wind Unit September 01, 2010 

  Shell WindEnergy is up for sale. Morgan Stanley is running the auction and teasers were sent out recently.

• Exelon Makes Maiden Foray Via Deere Unit August 31, 2010 

  Exelon has entered the wind development arena with its agreement to buy John Deere Renewables for $860 million.

• NRG To Wrap Cottonwood Purchase August 30, 2010 

  NRG Energy expects its $525 million acquisition of a 1,279 MW combined cycle Kelson Holdings plant in Texas to be complete by year-end.

• Exelon, Entergy Talk Merger August 27, 2010 

  Exelon and Entergy are considering joining forces in a merger.

• Ameren Looks To Sell Generation Assets August 27, 2010 

  Ameren has put its roughly 5 GW unregulated generation portfolio up for sale.

• Deere Goes Back To Bidders August 26, 2010 

  Deere & Co. has gone back to the two companies in the home stretch of the auction of its wind business to negotiate the final bids after offers came in below its roughly $925 million expectation.

• BlackRock Sub, Group Touts Conn. Plant August 24, 2010 

  A consortium that includes BlackRock subsidiary BlackRock Real Asset Equity Trust, has put operating company Milford Power Co. and its combined-cycle oil- and gas-fired facility on the block.

• Ameren Shops 5GW August 24, 2010 

  Ameren Corp. has put its roughly 5 GW unregulated generation portfolio up for sale.