BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$11.6B
- Private
- US
Dow Jones Description
In 2007, Tenaska's gross operating revenues were $11.6 billion and its assets were $2.9 billion. Fortune and Forbes magazines rank Tenaska 25th and 26th, respectively, among the largest privately-held U.S. companies. With expertise in site development, engineering, construction and operating management, Tenaska has developed 9,000 megawatts (MW) of generating facilities. It manages and operates 10 power plants totaling more than 6,800 MW that it owns in partnership with other companies. A Tenaska affiliate (owned jointly with AIG Financial Products Corp.), Tenaska Marketing Ventures/Tenaska Marketing Canada (TMV), ranks in the top 10 natural gas marketers in North America, selling or managing 1.86 trillion cubic feet of gas in 2007 a volume equal to about 8 percent of the total U.S. natural gas consumption. Tenaska Power Services (TPS), Tenaska's power marketing affiliate, develops power supply solutions for customers and operates a 24-hour marketing center, where it sold 15,615 gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2007. In 2008, Tenaska built on its expertise in the natural gas industry by forming a gas exploration and production company, Tenaska Resources, LLC. The company has acquired oil and gas leases and will begin gas drilling and production activities in the Marcellus Shale, which lies under most of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Tenaska also has formed Tenaska Drilling Services, LLC, to purchase and operate the drilling rigs necessary to access the Marcellus Shale gas. ...
CEO and Senior Managing Director
Paul G. SmithNumber of Employees 650
Contact Information
1044 N 115th St Ste 400
Omaha, Nebraska 68154-4410
(402) 691-9500
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Electric Power Generation: 221119
Recent Events
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Tenaska’s Taylorville Energy Center Selected By U.S. DOE For Loan Guarantee Program; Illinois Electric Ratepayers...
News & Analysis
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Global Monitor: Tenaska proposes first new coal-fired plant with carbon capture
Tenaska Inc. is developing a site near Sweetwater, Texas, for a new 765-MW gross, 600-MW net supercritical coal-fired power plant that will capture up to 90% of the COface=+Subscript; 2face=-Subscript; in the stack gas. The captured COface=+Subscript; 2face=-Subscript; will to be used in enhancing oil production...
Tenaska Proposes First SCPC Plant to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Omaha, Neb.-based power plant developer Tenaska, Inc. said it plans to build a $3 billion, super critical pulverized coal SCPC plant in Sweetwater, Texas that will capture 90% of its carbon dioxide emissions and pipeline the CO2 for enhanced oil recovery to producers in the Permian Basin. Tenaska filed...
Utility proposes first US coal-fired plant to capture CO2
WASHINGTON AFP — US energy company Tenaska announced Tuesday a proposal for a new 600-megawatt, coal-fired power plant in Texas that would be the first to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions underground. The privately held company proposed a site near Sweetwater, Texas, where its plan would capture up...
Cover Story. Gas-Fired Top Plants: Tenaska Virginia Generating Station, Scottsville, Virginia
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Gas storage facility planned in southwestern Pennsylvania
Tenaska Power Fund L P., of Omaha and eCORP, LLC, of Houston plan to develop a new high-performance natural gas storage facility near Uniontown in southwestern Pennsylvania. The facility will be developed by a jointly owned entity, Chestnut Ridge Storage, LLC. In the first phase of development, the facility...
Additional news
* Parks & Luttrell Interests LLC has been formed by Jack Parks and Terry Luttrell, who sold their two-year-old Parks & Luttrell Energy Partners LP in 2001 for more than $26 million. The new E&P venture will focus on acquire-and-exploit opportunities in the southern U.S., and has received $49.6 million...
Dominion to Sell Natural Gas-Fired Generation Stations to Tenaska Power Fund Subsidiary
ENERGY RESOURCE-21 December 2006-Dominion to Sell Natural Gas-Fired Generation Stations to Tenaska Power Fund SubsidiaryC2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Dominion has reached an agreement to sell three natural gas-fired generation facilities to a subsidiary of Tenaska Power Fund L.P. and an affiliate of Warburg Pincus LLC. Terms were...
Tenaska Power Fund Subsidiary, Warburg Pincus Affiliate in Deal to Acquire Dominion Electric Stations
ENERGY RESOURCE-21 December 2006-Tenaska Power Fund Subsidiary, Warburg Pincus Affiliate in Deal to Acquire Dominion Electric StationsC2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com A subsidiary of Tenaska Power Fund L.P. and an affiliate of Warburg Pincus LLC have jointly signed an agreement to acquire three electric generating stations from Dominion of...
BNSF Railway and Tenaska Mull CTL Plant
U.S. rail operator, BNSF and independent energy company Tenaska are conducting a joint feasibility study on a potential CTL plant to supply diesel to the railroad. Additionally, BNSF has signed a supply agreement with Syntroleum Corp. for test quantities of Fischer Tropsch diesel to be used and evaluated in...
Tenaska Energy, Inc
Tenaska Energy, Inc. has formed a new biofuels company, Tenaska BioFuels, LLC, to provide marketing, physical delivery and financial services to the ethanol and biodiesel industries. Tenaska has hired Dave Neubauer to head the company as vice president and general manager.
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Paul G. Smith | CEO and Senior Managing Director |
| Fred R. Hunzeker | President, Tenaska Marketing Ventures |
| Trudy A. Harper | President |
| Jerry K. Crouse | Chief Financial Officer |
| Ronald N. Quinn | Chief Strategy and Legal Officer |
| Michael F. Lawler | Executive Vice President, Corporate Investments |
| Ronald L. Quinn | Executive Vice President |
| Barton D. Ford | Vice President |
| Gregory A. Van Dyke | Vice President, Finance |
| Lori Bruck | Vice President, MidWest Reg |
| Michael C. Meyer | Vice President, Asset Management |
| Nicholas N. Borman | Vice President, Engineering and Construction |
| Ronald R. Tanner | Vice President |
| Scott M. Helyer | Vice President |
| Todd S. Jonas | Vice President, Operations |
| Thomas E. Hendricks | Co-Founder & Executive Vice President |
| Jana M. Martin | Director, Government and Public Affairs |
| Adam Randall | Accounting Manager |
| Jeff Nilan | Accounting Manager |
| Matt Martindale | Accounting Manager |
| Meikyn Shuler | Accounting Manager |
| Timothy G. Kudron | Corporate Controller |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Howard L. Hawks | Chairman |
| David G. Fiorelli | Board of Directors |
| Larry V. Pearson | Board of Directors |
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| Tenaska Inc. | CEO and Senior Managing Director | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | President, Tenaska Marketing Ventures | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | President | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Chief Financial Officer | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Chief Strategy and Legal Officer | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Executive Vice President, Corporate Investments | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Executive Vice President | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Vice President | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Vice President, Finance | Current |
| Tenaska Inc. | Treasurer | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Vice President, MidWest Reg | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Vice President, Asset Management | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Vice President, Engineering and Construction | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Vice President | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Vice President | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Vice President, Operations | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Co-Founder & Executive Vice President | Current |
| Tenaska Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Director, Government and Public Affairs | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Accounting Manager | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Corporate Controller | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Mc Carthy Group, Inc. | Current | |
| Tenaska Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| Tenaska Inc. | CEO | Former |
| Tenaska Inc. | co-founder | Current |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Tenaska Inc. | CEO | Former |
| Tenaska Inc. | President | Former |
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| Tenaska Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Tenaska Inc. | CEO, Operations Group | Former |
| Tenaska Inc. | Executive Vice President | Current |
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