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Gregory A. Platt
"Greg"
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Mr. Platt is Vice President of Cobisa
Corporation. He joined the firm in April 1994 with over ten years’
direct experience in all phases of the development, permitting,
engineering, financing, fuel acquisition and marketing management of
independent power plants. He has performed these functions on
several projects under construction or in development by Cobisa.
From 1986 to 1994, Mr. Platt was employed by Enserch
Development Corporation ("EDC"), the project development
division of ENSERCH Corporation during that time. ENSERCH was a $3 billion Dallas, Texas
based company with over 75 years of experience in natural resource
acquisition and development, natural gas pipeline operations and energy
project development (ENSERCH is now a subsidiary of TXU, Inc.). He held a number of positions at EDC including
Director of Proposals and Business Analysis, Project Development Manager
and Venture Development Analyst. While at EDC, he was instrumental in
the development (including proposal preparation, economic analyses,
contract negotiation, permitting, thermal host acquisition, EPC
oversight, fuel acquisition and financing) of the following projects:
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Encogen One: EDC developed a 255 MW combined
cycle cogeneration facility in Sweetwater, Texas which sells
capacity and energy to TXU, Inc. and supplies approximately 170
MMBtu/HR of thermal energy to U.S. Gypsum’s Sweetwater wallboard
plant. The plant achieved commercial operation in June of 1989. This
project required a total of $395 million of project financing. In
addition to providing for the EPC, financing and development costs
for this project, this capitalization was used to purchase
approximately 150 bcf of in-situ natural gas reserves which will be
used over the project’s life. |
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Encogen Northwest: EDC developed a 160 MW
combined-cycle cogeneration project in Bellingham, Washington. The
electrical output of the plant is being sold under a long-term power
sale agreement with Puget Sound Power & Light. Thermal energy in
the form of steam and hot water is being sold to a Georgia Pacific
pulp mill. The plant met its scheduled commercial operation date of
July, 1993. The total capitalization for this project including EPC
and other development costs was approximately $160 million. EDC
financed this project with no equity investment. |
Mr. Platt was also responsible for all aspects of
over 1,000 MW of power projects which were in various stages of
development at EDC.
Prior to joining EDC, Mr. Platt was employed as a
Process Engineer at Fluor Engineers, Inc. During his six year tenure at
Fluor, he was responsible for the engineering design of natural gas
fired power plants, waste to energy plants, natural gas process plants
and refinery units. He conducted the financial and market analyses which
supported Flour’s initial foray into power plant and waste to energy
plant development.
Prior to joining Fluor, Mr. Platt was employed by
ChemShare, Inc., a developer and marketer of process simulation
software. At ChemShare, he was responsible for process design of
refinery unit revamp projects, software development and customer
support.
Mr. Platt is a member of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical
Engineering from Rice University and a Masters in Business
Administration from the University of Houston. |
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