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08.24.10
Environmental Awareness Pays for Texas Fifth-Graders
For the past two years, fifth-grade students across Texas have demonstrated creative environmental conservation ideas – from community recycling programs to planting neighborhood tree farms – as part of the Luminant Scholar Program.
06.21.10
Luminant Releases Latest Data Highlighting 2009 Environmental Successes
Redesigned 2009 Environmental Review and new environmental fact sheets now available on Luminant.com.
04.29.10
Luminant Contributes $56,000 to Teacher Workshops
As part of its commitment to energy and environmental education, Luminant recently donated more than $50,000 to fund two teacher workshops this summer.
04.21.10
Luminant Celebrates Environmental Successes
From growing wind-power purchases to a pilot project that generates hydropower in power plant discharge canals, Luminant is delivering on its commitment to provide reliable and increasingly clean sources of electricity.
03.09.10
Luminant Currently Planting 1.2 Million Trees on Previously Mined Lands
More than one million new trees in three months - that's the plan for Luminant's 2010 reforestation program.
06.18.09
Luminant Releases 2008 Environmental Report
In 2008, Luminant recycled almost 3.1 billion pounds of materials; avoided, reduced or sequestered more than 25 million tons of carbon dioxide; and planted nearly 1.5 million trees on 1,600 acres of reclaimed mined land. These and many other environmental achievements are highlighted in Luminant's 2008 Environmental Review, released today.
12.09.08
Luminant Announces Agreement with Sierra Club and Public Citizen
Luminant today announced that it has collaborated with Sierra Club and Public Citizen to reach an innovative agreement. This new agreement provides for an additional regulatory review of environmental controls at Luminant's Oak Grove power plant and provides for Luminant to offset any emissions above the final levels set in that regulatory review. In return, the environmental and consumer groups have agreed to forego legal opposition to the construction and operation of the Oak Grove facility, although they may participate in the additional regulatory review.
02.04.08
NETAC & Luminant Detail East Texas Voluntary Emission Reduction Plan
Luminant and the Northeast Texas Air Care Group (NETAC) today announced details of the company's East Texas voluntary emission reduction plan for the region. The goal of the voluntary plan is to install new technology to voluntarily offset 100 percent of key emissions from new coal power plants and lowering coal-fueled key emissions even further to 20 percent below 2005 levels.
10.15.07
Luminant Acts to Terminate Eight Air Permit Applications
Luminant today announced it has formally acted to terminate air permit applications for eight coal-fueled power units. The action delivers on Luminant’s commitment to terminate the permit process upon close of the TXU merger transaction that closed this past Wednesday. The company suspended efforts to obtain the permits in February.
07.27.07
Luminant and Shell Join Forces to Develop a Texas-Sized Wind Farm
Shell WindEnergy Inc. and Luminant, a subsidiary of TXU Corp., announced today a joint development agreement for a 3,000-megawatt wind project in the Texas Panhandle and to work together on other renewable energy developments in Texas.
03.30.07
New 125-Megawatt Texas Wind Farm Providing Energy to TXU; Milestone in Expansion of Wind Power in Texas
TXU Wholesale, a subsidiary of TXU Corp. (NYSE: TXU), and Airtricity, a world-leading renewable energy company based in Dublin, Ireland, today announced that Airtricity has completed construction of the Forest Creek Wind Farm, increasing TXU Wholesale’s renewable energy capacity by 125 MW.
03.09.07
KKR, TPG & TXU Corp. Announce IGCC Plans
Texas Energy Future Holdings Limited Partnership (TEF), the holding company formed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group (TPG) to acquire TXU Corp. (NYSE:TXU), and TXU announced today that they have started the planning process for two integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) commercial demonstration plants to be located in Texas.
03.01.07
TXU Halts Efforts To Obtain Permits for Eight Coal-Fueled Units
TXU announced today it has officially suspended efforts to obtain permits for eight coal-fueled power units in Texas.
02.26.07
TXU to Set New Direction As Private Company; Public Benefits Include Price Cuts, Price Protection, Investments in Alternative Energy and Stronger Environmental Policies
TXU Corp. a Dallas-based energy company, together with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group (TPG), two of the nation’s leading private equity firms, and Goldman Sachs & Co., a leading global investment bank, announced today the execution of a definitive merger agreement under which an investor group led by KKR and TPG will acquire TXU in a transaction valued at $45 billion.