Red Oak is an 830-megawatt combined cycle gas turbine

power plant A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the electricity generation, generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electr ...

located in

Sayreville, New Jersey Sayreville is a borough in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Sayreville is within the heart of the Raritan Valley region, located on the south banks of the Raritan River, and also located on the Raritan Bay. As of the 2020 Uni ...

not far from the South River opened in 2002. Energy Capital acquired it from a subsidiary of the

AES Corporation The AES Corporation is an American utility and power generation company. It owns and operates power plants, which it uses to generate and sell electricity to end users and intermediaries like utilities and industrial facilities. AES, headquarte ...

in April 2012, which, in November 2013, sold it to the

Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational company with operations in private equity, alternative asset management and financial services. As of 2023, the company had $426 billion of assets under management. Carlyle specializes in ...

. Damage to the plant due to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 took it offline line for five months.

TAQA Taqa or TAQA may refer to: *Taqa, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran *Taqah, town in Oman *Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) *Training, Assessment and Quality Assurance (TAQA) in relation to adult, further and work-based educational ...

subsidiary TAQA Gen-X owns 85% and

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 42 countries and more than 80,000 employees, the firm's clients in ...

owns 15% of the tolling agreement for the facility through its with partner.

Natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

is provided by

New Jersey Resources New Jersey Resources is an energy services holding company based in Wall Township, New Jersey. It is a Fortune 1000 company, and a member of the Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917. It has be ...

. It is part of the

PJM Interconnection PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM) is a regional transmission organization (RTO) in the United States. It is part of the Eastern Interconnection grid operating an electric transmission system serving all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Ke ...

of the

Eastern Interconnection The Eastern Interconnection is one of the two major alternating current, alternating-current (AC) electrical grids in the North American power transmission grid. The other major wide area synchronous grid, interconnection is the Western Inter ...

grid electric transmission system. A 2013 report named It is one of the largest single sources of carbon pollution in the state. The

Sayreville Energy Center The Sayreville Energy Center, or Sayreville Cogen Facility, is a combined cycle power station in Sayreville, New Jersey owned in part and operated by NextEra Energy Resources. Built by Westinghouse, it opened in 1991. It provides power to the PJM ...

operated by

NextEra Energy Resources NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER) is a wholesale electricity supplier based in Juno Beach, Florida. NEER is a subsidiary of NextEra Energy (), a Fortune 200 company. Prior to 2009, NextEra Energy Resources was known as FPL Energy. NextEra ...

is nearby.

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