Clean-Burning Power Generation

The North American power generation fleet maintains a diverse mix of fuel sources, from clean-burning natural gas to hydro, wind, and biomass or biogas. GDF SUEZ owns, operates or has under construction power facilities that total a generation capacity of approximately 15,000 MW, 6 million pounds per hour of steam, and 42,000 tons of chilled water.

Through a concentration of generation assets in New England, the northeastern United States and into Atlantic Canada, as well as in Texas, the southeast, and Mexico, GDF SUEZ supplies power to customers such as electricity transmission systems, regional and local utilities, municipalities, and large commercial and industrial facilities.

Among GDF SUEZ’s recent key expansion projects has been the acquisition of an ownership stake in the 575 MW Astoria Energy natural gas-fired plant in the Queens Borough of New York and Astoria Energy II, a second 575 MW plant, that is under construction and slated for completion in the summer of 2011. Once both are in operation, the Astoria plants will supply at peak times as much as 12 percent of the electricity to New York City.

In renewable, the electricity produced by carbon-free and carbon-neutral operations makes up approximately one third of the company’s total generation capacity in the Northeast United States and Eastern Canada. In wind generation, GDF SUEZ completed in 2009 two of the largest wind facilities in eastern Canada, in the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island provinces. Another 77 MW of wind energy are under construction and in final development in Ontario and slated for completion during 2011 and 2012.

The company also bolstered its commitment to renewables in late 2008 when it acquired a substantial portfolio of traditional hydro and pumped hydro storage facilities in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Now operating 12 hydro facilities, eight biomass and biogas plants, and five wind farms, the company’s green energy generation totals 589 MW.

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