Hull Street Energy to Acquire Illinois Power Assets, Expanding Milepost Power Fleet
Hull Street Energy (HSE) agrees to acquire assets from Elwood Energy LLC, a J-Power USA subsidiary. The assets include a 1,350 MW gas-fired power plant located near Joliet, Illinois.
Bethesda, MD and Chicago, IL, February 18, 2025 – Hull Street Energy, LLC (“HSE”) has agreed to acquire certain assets from Elwood Energy LLC, (“Elwood”) a subsidiary of J-Power USA. Elwood owns a 1,350 MW gas-fired power plant located near Joliet, Illinois.
Upon closing, HSE affiliates will own nearly 3,500 megawatts of highly efficient, reliable, gas-fired, and dual-fueled generation capacity operating within the Milepost Power fleet. Ultimately, these assets will be optimized to support decarbonization and reliability in an increasingly constrained U.S. power market.
Troutman Pepper acted as legal counsel to HSE. CIBC Capital Markets and Merit Capital Advisors acted as financial advisors, and Baker McKenzie acted as legal counsel to J-Power USA.
About Hull Street Energy, LLC
HSE is a private equity firm that specializes in deploying capital into the power sector as it decarbonizes. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, the team leverages its decades of experience and unique knowledge of North American electricity infrastructure, fundamentals, and grid operations, including fuel inputs, commodity contract structuring, renewable and fossil-powered generation assets, energy storage, transmission and distribution systems, and electricity demand-side businesses to build value for stakeholders. For further information about HSE, please see www.hullstreetenergy.com.
About Milepost Power
Milepost Power owns and manages flexible, dependable, and clean natural gas and dual-fuel electric generating plants in North America, providing electricity and critical reliability service to the grid. Its power plants and analytically driven risk management protocols position the company to play an increasingly important role as the industry transitions to include more renewable generation resources. Milepost Power is an affiliate of Hull Street Energy. For further information, please see www.milepostpower.com.
About J-Power USA
J-Power USA Generation, L.P., headquartered in the greater Chicago area, has a long-term strategy to acquire, develop, finance, and operate power generation facilities in North America through its team of power professionals with a proven track record of successfully developing and acquiring power projects in the IPP sector. For further information, please see www.jpowerusa.com.
Media Contact:
press@hullstreetenergy.com
Upon closing, HSE affiliates will own nearly 3,500 megawatts of highly efficient, reliable, gas-fired, and dual-fueled generation capacity operating within the Milepost Power fleet. Ultimately, these assets will be optimized to support decarbonization and reliability in an increasingly constrained U.S. power market.
Troutman Pepper acted as legal counsel to HSE. CIBC Capital Markets and Merit Capital Advisors acted as financial advisors, and Baker McKenzie acted as legal counsel to J-Power USA.
About Hull Street Energy, LLC
HSE is a private equity firm that specializes in deploying capital into the power sector as it decarbonizes. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, the team leverages its decades of experience and unique knowledge of North American electricity infrastructure, fundamentals, and grid operations, including fuel inputs, commodity contract structuring, renewable and fossil-powered generation assets, energy storage, transmission and distribution systems, and electricity demand-side businesses to build value for stakeholders. For further information about HSE, please see www.hullstreetenergy.com.
About Milepost Power
Milepost Power owns and manages flexible, dependable, and clean natural gas and dual-fuel electric generating plants in North America, providing electricity and critical reliability service to the grid. Its power plants and analytically driven risk management protocols position the company to play an increasingly important role as the industry transitions to include more renewable generation resources. Milepost Power is an affiliate of Hull Street Energy. For further information, please see www.milepostpower.com.
About J-Power USA
J-Power USA Generation, L.P., headquartered in the greater Chicago area, has a long-term strategy to acquire, develop, finance, and operate power generation facilities in North America through its team of power professionals with a proven track record of successfully developing and acquiring power projects in the IPP sector. For further information, please see www.jpowerusa.com.
Media Contact:
press@hullstreetenergy.com
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Bethesda, Maryland, United StatesHull Street Energy invests in middle market energy companies that are strategically positioned to thrive as the North American grid transitions to a more sustainable footprint.
Our core team has worked together for nearly two decades, and has extensive experience across a wide variety of energy asset classes. Our investment approach is differentiated by a rigorous application of fundamental analysis, transaction structuring skills, quantitative valuation methods, deep operating expertise, proven risk management techniques, and capital markets knowledge to achieve attractive risk adjusted returns for our stakeholders.
Hull Street Energy takes a holistic approach to investing in grid modernization, focusing on renewable resources, critical thermal power plants, energy storage technologies, demand side businesses and related services.
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