Orion Power Holdings

Orion Power Holdings is a wholly owned subsidiary of RRI Energy (Reliant Energy), which acquired Orion in 2002 for $2.9 billion. At the time Orion owned and operated more than 80 primarily fossil-fueled power plants in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a combined generating capacity of about 5,900 megawatts (MW), with an additional 5,000 MW of capacity under construction or development. Orion Power Holdings, Inc. was jointly owned by affiliates of Goldman Sachs & Co. and Constellation Energy Group.

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