If corporate bondholders convert their debt into equity as part of a restructuring, they then have the power that equity ownership confers: They could demand new management.
E. holds equity stakes in power projects that produce 26 gigawatts.
On Wednesday, Knight Capital, one of the largest market-makers, was forced to shut down its equity trading operations after a power outage hit their back up generators.
Its return on equity outstrips most other major power companies.
In general, investors are not placing a great deal of value in the distribution power of private equity firms and remain uneasy about the lumpy nature of their earnings, which are driven by episodic performance fees more than steady management fees.
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TXU, Texas's main power-generator, led the company to abandon eight out of 11 planned coal-fired power stations because the private equity firm concerned, Texas Pacific, wanted to square the environmental movement.
With the federal loan program expiring in September, the Energy Department has been pushing through the billion-dollar guarantees crucial for developers to secure the equity investment needed to build massive solar power projects.
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What will be the level of investments in electric power given the large drop in equity valuations for the sector after the government announced its measures to reduce end-user electric bills?
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In this case, TNP has a deal with Texas regulators guaranteeing an aftertax return of 11.25% on the equity it has invested in Texas-New Mexico Power, its operating company.
Alan Johnson, the front runner, is campaigning on a platform of more union power, an end to successful private equity and a limit on the number of new city academies.
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Families can hold on to power by keeping voting control even as their equity stakes get diluted or taxed away.
Why is it that private equity firms, like Bain Capital, hold so much power and leverage when it comes to startup companies?
Cemig is a strong electric power utility that really is managed like a private equity firm.
The Basel club of regulators proposes to do just that by taking a type of debt at the bottom of the pecking order (known, confusingly, as Tier 2 capital), and giving supervisors power to write it off or convert it into equity without triggering a default if a bank is in serious trouble.
But after a 2007 buyout by private equity, it's going green with its newly christened wholesale power provider, Luminant Energy.
Recall how the private equity buyers of Texas utility txu agreed last year to cancel eight power plants to defuse environmental opposition.
The REITs that have seen great share price leaps and raised lots of public equity and corporat debt have seen their share prices tumble, eroding buying power and pushing debt levels up just as the faltering economy bites into operating gains.
James has an equity deal for a furniture line with American Signature and he gets royalties on Power Beats headphones.
The twist is that the investments are loans, not equity, and the money goes (for now) only to new solar power developments.
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The plant, Desert Rock, is owned jointly by the tribe's power authority and Houston-based Sithe Global Power, which in turn is majority-owned by Blackstone, a large private-equity firm.
It is meant to push companies out of the so-called valley of death where private equity or debt investors are reluctant to cover huge construction costs on unproven technology given the sluggish growth outlook for power demand.
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