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  • LS Power launches new energy company
    Kalliope Gourntis- 17 March 2016

    Funded by an affiliate of the US firm, LifeEnergy will be led by the former CEO of GDF Suez Energy in North America.

  • I Squared-backed Cube Hydro grows portfolio
    Kalliope Gourntis- 24 February 2015

    The acquisition of another 10 run-of-the-river facilities comes about a month after Cube Hydro bought two hydro plants in upstate New York.

  • LS Power acquires portfolio of power plants
    Kalliope Gourntis- 21 April 2014

    The US fund manager will pay $1.57bn in cash for six power generation facilities in the Southeastern US.

  • LS Power reaches $2bn hard cap
    Andy Thomson- 27 February 2014

    The US fund manager has closed its third fund well ahead of a $1.5bn target. The fundraising process took just seven months.

  • Lime Rock closes $750m energy fund
    David Rapp- 16 January 2013

    Lime Rock Partners, a Connecticut private equity firm, today announced the closing of its fourth energy-focused fund on $750m, nearly as much as its three previous funds combined.

  • Tenaska closes $838m power fund
    Paul Fruchbom- 16 January 2013

    The Omaha, Nebraska energy company has raised an $838m private equity fund to acquire energy and power assets.

  • Lime Rock closes Fund V on $1.4bn
    Amanda Janis- 16 January 2013

    The energy-focussed private equity firm has nearly doubled the size of its previous fund in a three month period that involved ‘very little proactive marketing’.

  • First Reserve closes $7.8bn energy fund
    David Rapp- 16 January 2013

    First Reserve, which recently opened offices in Asia, has announced the closing of the largest energy-specific global fund ever raised, at $7.8bn. CEO Bill Macaulay told PEO that investor demand could have made the fund "much larger."

  • $1.2bn energy fund sweeps past target
    PEI Staff- 16 January 2013

    During an intensive period of activity in the energy sector, LS Power Group has completed a $1.2bn final close of its oversubscribed power sector-focused fund.

  • LS Power closes $3.1bn energy fund
    Amanda Janis- 16 January 2013

    With the closure of its second energy fund on $3.1 billion, LS Power’s 5-year old private equity arm has become one of the world’s 50 largest private equity firms.