# Hopewell Cogeneration

PJM Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/hopewell-cogeneration

Hopewell Cogeneration is a natural gas-fired power facility with 399 MW of EIA-reported operating capacity in Prince George County, Virginia, registered as EIA Plant ID 10633. Luminant Generation Company LLC owns and operates the plant. Its grid role is cogeneration facility providing reactive power service to PJM.

## Key facts

- Technology: Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
- Power capacity: 399 MW
- Operating status: operating

## Grid and market context

- ISO/RTO: PJM
- Balancing authority: PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM)

## Source-backed facts

- Owner logo domain: vistracorp.com — Luminant - Vistra Corp. · confidence: medium
- Owner logo domain: vistracorp.com — Vistra Corp.: Home · confidence: medium
- Description: Hopewell Cogeneration is an operating 399 MW natural-gas-fired combined-cycle cogeneration plant in Prince George County, Virginia. The plant has four generating units—GT1, GT2, GT3, and ST1—and began operation in 1990. It is operated by Luminant Generation Company LLC and participates in the PJM market. — Power plant profile: Hopewell Cogeneration Facility, US · confidence: medium
- Parties.0: {"relationship":"Owner and operator","name":"Luminant Generation Company LLC","official_url":"https://vistracorp.com/operations/luminant/"} — Hopewell Cogeneration Facility · confidence: medium
- Parties.1: {"relationship":"Corporate parent of Luminant","name":"Vistra Corp.","official_url":"https://vistracorp.com/"} — Luminant - Vistra Corp. · confidence: high
- Parties.3: {"relationship":"Power purchaser under reported power purchase agreement","name":"Virginia Electric and Power","official_url":"https://www.dominionenergy.com/"} — Power plant profile: Hopewell Cogeneration Facility, US · confidence: medium
- Parties.3: {"relationship":"Power purchaser under reported power purchase agreement","name":"Virginia Electric and Power","official_url":"https://www.dominionenergy.com/"} — Pay My Bill | Virginia · confidence: medium
- Parties.4: {"relationship":"Gas- and steam-turbine OEM","name":"GE Power","official_url":"https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power"} — Power plant profile: Hopewell Cogeneration Facility, US · confidence: medium
- Parties.4: {"relationship":"Gas- and steam-turbine OEM","name":"GE Power","official_url":"https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power"} — Gas Power · confidence: medium
- Parties.5: {"relationship":"Steam-boiler supplier","name":"Nooter/Eriksen","official_url":"https://www.ne.com/"} — Power plant profile: Hopewell Cogeneration Facility, US · confidence: medium
- Parties.5: {"relationship":"Steam-boiler supplier","name":"Nooter/Eriksen","official_url":"https://www.ne.com/"} — Nooter/Eriksen – Sustainable Energy Management · confidence: medium
- Product url: https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power — Gas Power | GE Vernova · confidence: medium
- Quality notes: ["Historical sources report different capacity bases: 356 MW in a 1990 completion listing, approximately 429 MW in 2016 transaction materials, and 399 MW in current EIA-based plant data. These figures should not be treated as evidence of a documented expansion without a reconciled unit-level capacity history.","The $3.3 billion amount was consideration for the acquisition of GSENA's issued and outstanding stock and was a portfolio transaction, not disclosed Hopewell-specific construction or project-finance debt.","The Carlyle ownership reference associated with Hopewell Power Station is excluded because Hopewell Power Station is a separate 71.1 MW biomass plant in Hopewell, Virginia, rather than EIA plant 10633.","No dated retirement, repowering, or discrete expansion milestone is included in the available plant history. Current generator records identify the units as operating and report no completed uprate or derate for the documented generators."] — Metric · confidence: medium
- Quality notes: ["Historical sources report different capacity bases: 356 MW in a 1990 completion listing, approximately 429 MW in 2016 transaction materials, and 399 MW in current EIA-based plant data. These figures should not be treated as evidence of a documented expansion without a reconciled unit-level capacity history.","The $3.3 billion amount was consideration for the acquisition of GSENA's issued and outstanding stock and was a portfolio transaction, not disclosed Hopewell-specific construction or project-finance debt.","The Carlyle ownership reference associated with Hopewell Power Station is excluded because Hopewell Power Station is a separate 71.1 MW biomass plant in Hopewell, Virginia, rather than EIA plant 10633.","No dated retirement, repowering, or discrete expansion milestone is included in the available plant history. Current generator records identify the units as operating and report no completed uprate or derate for the documented generators."] — Partnership to Buy Some GDF Suez Assets in the US for $3.3 Billion · confidence: medium
- Quality notes: ["Historical sources report different capacity bases: 356 MW in a 1990 completion listing, approximately 429 MW in 2016 transaction materials, and 399 MW in current EIA-based plant data. These figures should not be treated as evidence of a documented expansion without a reconciled unit-level capacity history.","The $3.3 billion amount was consideration for the acquisition of GSENA's issued and outstanding stock and was a portfolio transaction, not disclosed Hopewell-specific construction or project-finance debt.","The Carlyle ownership reference associated with Hopewell Power Station is excluded because Hopewell Power Station is a separate 71.1 MW biomass plant in Hopewell, Virginia, rather than EIA plant 10633.","No dated retirement, repowering, or discrete expansion milestone is included in the available plant history. Current generator records identify the units as operating and report no completed uprate or derate for the documented generators."] — Hopewell cogeneration power station - Global Energy Monitor · confidence: medium
- Quality notes.0: Historical sources report different capacity bases: 356 MW in a 1990 completion listing, approximately 429 MW in 2016 transaction materials, and 399 MW in current EIA-based plant data. These figures should not be treated as evidence of a documented expansion without a reconciled unit-level capacity history. — SUEZ Energy Generation, NA, Inc. · confidence: high
- Quality notes.1: The $3.3 billion amount was consideration for the acquisition of GSENA's issued and outstanding stock and was a portfolio transaction, not disclosed Hopewell-specific construction or project-finance debt. — Partnership to Buy Some GDF Suez Assets in the US for $3.3 Billion · confidence: medium
- Quality notes.2: The Carlyle ownership reference associated with Hopewell Power Station is excluded because Hopewell Power Station is a separate 71.1 MW biomass plant in Hopewell, Virginia, rather than EIA plant 10633. — Hopewell cogeneration power station - Global Energy Monitor · confidence: medium
- Timeline.0: {"event":"Construction completed","date":"1990","detail":"A contemporaneous project listing describes the ABB Hopewell Cogeneration Project as a 356 MW combined-cycle cogeneration facility completed in 1990 for Hopewell Cogeneration Limited Partnership."} — Metric · confidence: high
- Timeline.1: {"event":"Commercial operation began","date":"1990-08-01","detail":"EPA records state that Hopewell Cogeneration, ORISPL 10633, became a qualifying facility when it began commercial operation on August 1, 1990."} — SUEZ Energy Generation, NA, Inc. · confidence: high
- Timeline.3: {"event":"Portfolio transaction consummated","date":"2016-11-21","detail":"The FERC record states that the GSENA transaction was consummated on November 21, 2016."} — EC16-93-000 · confidence: high
- Commercial parties.1: {"relationship":"Corporate parent","name":"Vistra Corp.","detail":"Parent of Luminant and the surviving company after the April 9, 2018 Dynegy merger.","official_url":"https://vistracorp.com/"} — Source · confidence: high
- Commercial parties.3: {"relationship":"Original project owner / predecessor entity","name":"Hopewell Cogeneration Limited Partnership","detail":"Identified as the owner of the 1990 ABB Hopewell Cogeneration Project and later as an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of GSENA.","official_url":null} — Metric · confidence: high
- Commercial parties.6: {"relationship":"Seller / predecessor corporate group","name":"International Power S.A. / ENGIE S.A.","detail":"International Power S.A., an indirect ENGIE subsidiary, entered the GSENA stock-purchase agreement; GSENA indirectly owned Hopewell Cogeneration Limited Partnership.","official_url":"https://www.engie.com/"} — Partnership to Buy Some GDF Suez Assets in the US for $3.3 Billion · confidence: high
- Commercial parties.7: {"relationship":"Power purchaser","name":"Virginia Electric and Power","detail":"Reported purchaser of electricity under the facility's power purchase agreement; the company operates under the Dominion Energy brand.","official_url":"https://www.dominionenergy.com/"} — Source · confidence: high
- Commercial parties.8: {"relationship":"Gas- and steam-turbine OEM","name":"GE Power","detail":"Supplied the GE GT11N gas turbines identified for the three gas-turbine phases.","official_url":"https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power"} — Source · confidence: high
- Commercial parties.9: {"relationship":"Steam-boiler supplier","name":"Nooter/Eriksen","detail":"Supplied the steam boiler for the project.","official_url":"https://www.ne.com/"} — Source · confidence: high
- Acquisition detail: On 2017-02-07, Dynegy, through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary Atlas Power Finance, LLC, acquired the GSENA thermal-assets portfolio from International Power S.A. The portfolio explicitly included Hopewell Cogeneration Limited Partnership, an indirect wholly owned GSENA unit that owned and operated the Hopewell, Virginia cogeneration facility. An earlier 2012 Carlyle announcement also described the acquisition from Goldman Sachs of Cogentrix assets that included a significant ownership stake in Hopewell, but no percentage was disclosed. — GDF Suez to sell some U.S. power plants for $3.3 billion · confidence: medium
- Ownership interest pct: 100 — GDF Suez to sell some U.S. power plants for $3.3 billion · confidence: medium
- Prior owner: Dynegy, Inc. was identified by FERC as the original owner of Hopewell Cogeneration Limited Partnership; immediately before the 2017 transaction, the partnership was an indirect wholly owned unit of GSENA. — GDF Suez to sell some U.S. power plants for $3.3 billion · confidence: medium

## Timeline

- 1990 — Construction completed
  A contemporaneous project listing describes the ABB Hopewell Cogeneration Project as a 356 MW combined-cycle cogeneration facility completed in 1990 for Hopewell Cogeneration Limited Partnership.
  Source: Metric (https://appomattoxcl.archivalweb.com/proxy.php/0000525.pdf?t=pdf&i=1115447)
- 2016-02-24 — GSENA acquisition agreement signed
  Atlas Power Finance, a subsidiary of the Dynegy–Energy Capital Partners III joint venture Atlas Power, entered an agreement with International Power S. A., an indirect ENGIE subsidiary, to purchase all outstanding GSENA stock. Hopewell Cogeneration Limited Partnership was identified as an indirect wholly owned GSENA subsidiary owning and operating the Hopewell facility.
  Source: Partnership to Buy Some GDF Suez Assets in the US for $3.3 Billion (https://www.power-eng.com/coal/partnership-to-buy-some-gdf-suez-assets-in-the-us-for-3-3-billion/)
- 2017-02 — Acquisition closed
  Dynegy completed acquisition of ENGIE's U.S. generation portfolio ($3.3 billion) on February 8, 2017. Hopewell Cogeneration Limited Partnership (370 MW gas facility in Virginia) was included in GSENA portfolio. Asset-specific consideration not allocated.
  Source: Dynegy Completes Acquisition of 9 GW ENGIE Portfolio (https://www.power-eng.com/coal/dynegy-completes-acquisition-of-9-gw-engie-portfolio/)

## Sources

- [Luminant - Vistra Corp.](https://vistracorp.com/operations/luminant/) — vistracorp.com · tier other
- [Vistra Corp.: Home](https://vistracorp.com/) — vistracorp.com · tier other
- [Hopewell Cogeneration Facility](https://www.globaldata.com/store/report/hopewell-cogeneration-facility-profile-snapshot/) — globaldata.com · tier other
- [Power plant profile: Hopewell Cogeneration Facility, US](https://www.power-technology.com/data-insights/power-plant-profile-hopewell-cogeneration-facility-us/) — power-technology.com · tier other
- [Gas Power | GE Vernova](https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power) — gevernova.com · tier other
- [Nooter/Eriksen – Sustainable Energy Management](https://cicgroup.com/nooter-eriksen/) — cicgroup.com · tier other
- [Pay My Bill | Virginia](https://www.dominionenergy.com/en/Virginia/Paying-My-Bill/Pay-My-Bill) — dominionenergy.com · tier other
- [Hopewell Cogeneration - Knowledge Graph - Data Commons](https://www.datacommons.org/browser/eia/pp/10633) — datacommons.org · tier other
- [Source](https://power-technology.com/data-insights/power-plant-profile-hopewell-cogeneration-facility-us) — power-technology.com · tier other
- [SUEZ Energy Generation, NA, Inc.](https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-06/documents/hopwell_generation.pdf) — epa.gov · tier regulatory
- [Metric](https://appomattoxcl.archivalweb.com/proxy.php/0000525.pdf?t=pdf&i=1115447) — appomattoxcl.archivalweb.com · tier other
- [Partnership to Buy Some GDF Suez Assets in the US for $3.3 Billion](https://www.power-eng.com/coal/partnership-to-buy-some-gdf-suez-assets-in-the-us-for-3-3-billion/) — power-eng.com · tier other
- [Hopewell cogeneration power station - Global Energy Monitor](https://www.gem.wiki/Hopewell_cogeneration_power_station) — gem.wiki · tier other
- [EC16-93-000](https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/20161222171713-EC16-93-000.pdf) — ferc.gov · tier regulatory
- [Source](https://vistracorp.com/operations/luminant) — vistracorp.com · tier other
- [GDF Suez to sell some U.S. power plants for $3.3 billion](https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/dams-civil-structures/gdf-suez-to-sell-some-u-s-power-plant-for-3-3-billion/) — renewableenergyworld.com · tier other
- [RPM Must Offer Obligation](https://www.monitoringanalytics.com/reports/Market_Messages/messages/IMM_Notice_re_RPM_Must_Offer_Obligations_20260223.pdf) — monitoringanalytics.com · tier other

## Data quality

- These figures should not be treated as evidence of a documented expansion without a reconciled unit-level capacity history. The Carlyle ownership reference associated with Hopewell Power Station is excluded because Hopewell Power Station is a separate 71.1 MW biomass plant in Hopewell, Virginia, rather than EIA plant 10633. No dated retirement, repowering, or discrete expansion milestone is included in the available plant history. Current generator records identify the units as operating and report no completed uprate or derate for the documented generators.

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