Vice chairman Jerry K. Crouse (Inc.) Parent organization Tenaska Energy, Inc. | Chairperson Howard L. Hawks | |
Headquarters Omaha, Nebraska, United States VPs Drew J. Fossum, Joseph G. Hancock (Finance) CFO John G. Obermiller (Tenaska Marketing Group), Ryan T. Schroer General counsel Drew J. Fossum, Mark A. McQuade, David C. Dickey | ||
Tenaska is a private independent energy company based in the United States. The employee-owned company was founded in 1987 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, with regional offices in Dallas, Denver, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston and Calgary, and Vancouver, Canada.
Tenaska and its affiliates develop, own and operate non-utility power plants; market natural gas and electric power; provide energy risk management services; and are involved in asset acquisition and management, natural gas exploration, production and associated transportation systems, and electric transmission development.
Tenaska is recognized annually for operating safe, efficient, reliable power plants. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental organization, has listed Tenaska in benchmarking studies since 2004 as having among the lowest fleet-wide average emission rates for fossil-fueled power plants in the United States. The 2015 Top 100 Green Utilities report, published by trade journal Energy Intelligence, lists Tenaska 44th among power generators worldwide, based on low greenhouse gas emissions and the size of its renewable energy portfolio.
Leaders in marketing natural gas and electric power, Tenaska’s marketing affiliates provide customers with the broad-based capacity and expertise to solve their physical marketing and asset and risk management needs.
• Tenaska Marketing Ventures is ranked as one of the top five natural gas marketers in North America by Platt’s Gas Daily and provides natural gas commodity, volume management, hedging and asset management products and services.
• Tenaska Power Services Co. specializes in physical power marketing and electric asset management for utilities and non-utility generators, and is one of the largest marketers of physical power in the United States.
Other Tenaska affiliates include:
• Tenaska Capital Management, LLC – Provides management services for private equity investments in the U.S. energy industry.
• Tenaska Resources, LLC – Manages drilling and production targeting natural gas reserves in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations beneath most of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.