ArcLight Capital

HOUSTON, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- In July 2008, an affiliated fund of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC ("ArcLight") completed an initial investment in NuCoastal Power Holdings, LLC ("NuCoastal Power") located in Houston, Texas. The new company will be re-named ReNu Power LLC. Founded in 2005, NuCoastal Power is a power generation company whose strategy has been to acquire and re-develop a portfolio of five "mothballed" power plants in the capacity-constrained Texas ERCOT southern zone. Arclight's capital commitment to NuCoastal Power is sufficient to fund the development of the portfolio. Permitting for all of the development plants has been completed ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Venture capital investments in US cleantech companies grew by 41% to $961.7 million in Q2 2008, up from $683.5 million in Q1 2008, according to an Ernst & Young report based on data from Dow Jones VentureOne. This is the highest total cleantech investment on record, and comes amidst a quarter in which overall venture capital investment was down by nearly 8%. Year-on-year cleantech investment follows this upward trend, increasing 83% from Q2 2007. Energy/Electricity Generation companies attracted the most investment of any sector this quarter with $494.9 million -- 52% of the total. The top three deals of the quarter were solar-related companies. The deals included, SunEdison, in Beltsville, MD, which raised $131 million, eSolar, in Pasadena, CA, which raised $130 million and BrightSource in Oakland, CA, which raised $115 million. It is also worth noting that corporate investors were involved in all of these deals. ...

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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Anglo-Suisse Offshore Partners, LLC (ASOP), (www.anglosuisse.com) today announced the completion a six-well drilling program in its shelf acreage in the West Delta area of central Gulf of Mexico. Total net production from the wells has added some 40 percent to ASOP's net daily production. Eighty percent of the new production is oil. Anglo-Suisse Offshore Partners (ASOP) is ...

ST. LOUIS, July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX) today reported that its Board of Directors declared a 2-for-1 stock split, to be effected in the form of a 100 percent stock dividend, payable August 11, 2008, to stockholders of record on August 4, 2008. The Company's stock price has more than tripled since initial trading on November 1, 2007. Following the Magnum acquisition, Patriot has approximately 38.7 million common shares outstanding. Upon completion of the 2-for-1 split, Patriot will have approximately 77.4 million shares of common stock outstanding. Patriot also announced the addition of three members to its Board of Directors, Robb E. Turner, John F. "Jake" Erhard and Michael P. Johnson. Mr. Turner is co-founder and senior partner of ArcLight Capital Holdings, LLC ("ArcLight"), a private equity ...