Husch Blackwell’s energy team assisted Calpine in closing a $278 million Texas Energy Fund Loan for a 460 MW natural gas power plant in Freestone County, Texas. The facility, Pin Oak Creek Energy Center, is currently under construction and is expected to be operational next year.
Husch Blackwell served as project development and local counsel to Calpine in the areas of real estate, environmental, state tax, state law agreement enforceability, regulatory, local permitting, and interconnection.
The $464 million project will help the state of Texas to support the continued economic growth that has dramatically increased the power demands on the state's grid. The facility is designed to ramp up quickly and provide additional power during periods of peak energy usage.
The Husch Blackwell team was led by partner Chris Reeder and senior counsel Alaina Zermeno, and included attorneys Holly Heinrich, Jon Micah Goeller, Sean Farrell, Sean Jain, Robert Romashko, Andrew Parker, Sebastian Waisman, Maddie Thomas, and Sandy Hellums-Gomez, and paralegal Jen Rogers.
For further information, please refer to the October 14, 2025, Calpine news release.