-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, E0hnFtFs9u/J+ASHugBkQOBfoo3BhX8rY89H0Fq7GMx2mgK5lIpUXgl3GTLeMJ3G BzIeCj3fNLQjobFzbu5HNA== 0000074145-08-000004.txt : 20080125 0000074145-08-000004.hdr.sgml : 20080125 20080125132739 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000074145-08-000004 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20080124 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20080125 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080125 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000074145 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911] IRS NUMBER: 730382390 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OK FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-01097 FILM NUMBER: 08550163 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 321 NORTH HARVEY STREET 2: PO BOX 321 CITY: OKLAHOMA CITY STATE: OK ZIP: 73101-0321 BUSINESS PHONE: 4055533000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 321 N HARVEY STREET 2: P O BOX 321 CITY: OKLAHOMA CITY STATE: OK ZIP: 73101 8-K 1 ogand8k012508.htm

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT

TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported)

January 21, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

Oklahoma

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

 

1-1097

73-0382390

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

 

321 North Harvey, P.O. Box 321, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

73101-0321

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)

 

 

405-553-3000

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

 

 

 

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

                Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

                

o  Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o  Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act

(17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act

(17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 


Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

 

OGE Energy Corp. is the parent company of Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (the “Company”), a regulated electric utility with approximately 762,000 customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and Enogex Inc. and its subsidiaries, a natural gas pipeline business with principal operations in Oklahoma.

 

On January 21, 2008, the Company entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement (“Purchase and Sale Agreement”) with Redbud Energy I, LLC, Redbud Energy II, LLC and Redbud Energy III, LLC (“Redbud Sellers”), which are indirectly owned by Kelson Holdings LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd. and Harbinger Capital Partners Special Situations Fund, L.P. Pursuant to the Purchase and Sale Agreement, the Company will acquire from Redbud Sellers the entire partnership interest in Redbud Energy LP which currently owns a 1,230 MW gas-fired, combined-cycle power generation facility in Luther, Oklahoma (“Redbud Facility”), for $852 million, subject to working capital and inventory adjustments in accordance with the terms of the Purchase and Sale Agreement.

 

In connection with the Purchase and Sale Agreement, the Company also entered into (i) an Asset Purchase Agreement (“Asset Purchase Agreement”) with the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (“OMPA”) and the Grand River Dam Authority (“GRDA”), pursuant to which the Company will, after the closing of the transaction contemplated by the Purchase and Sale Agreement, dissolve Redbud Energy LP and sell a 13 percent undivided interest in the Redbud Facility to the OMPA and sell a 36 percent undivided interest in the Redbud Facility to the GRDA, and (ii) an Ownership and Operating Agreement (“Ownership and Operating Agreement”) with the OMPA and the GRDA, pursuant to which the Company, the OMPA and the GRDA, following the completion of the transaction contemplated by the Asset Purchase Agreement, will jointly own the Redbud Facility and the Company will act as the operations manager and perform the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the Redbud Facility. Under the Ownership and Operating Agreement, each of the parties is entitled to its pro rata share, which is equal to its respective ownership interest, of all output of the Redbud Facility and pays its pro rata share of all costs of operating and maintaining the Redbud Facility, including its pro rata share of the operations manager’s general and administrative overhead allocated to the Redbud Facility.

 

The transactions described above are subject to the expiration or termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, an order from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (the “FERC”) authorizing the contemplated transactions, an order from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (the “OCC”) approving the prudence of the transactions and an appropriate reasonable recovery mechanism, and other customary conditions. The Company will not be obligated to complete the transactions unless the orders from the FERC and the OCC do not contain any conditions or restrictions which are materially more burdensome than those proposed in the applications. Either the Company or the Redbud Sellers may terminate the Purchase and Sale Agreement if the closing has not occurred within 300 days; provided that the Redbud Sellers have the option to extend such time for up to an additional 180 days if the sole reason the closing has not occurred is because the governmental and regulatory approvals have not been obtained. There can be no assurances that the transactions will be completed or as to its ultimate timing.

 

The foregoing descriptions of the definitive agreements do not purport to be a complete description and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Purchase and Sale Agreement, Asset Purchase Agreement and Ownership and Operating Agreement incorporated herein by reference as Exhibits 2.01, 2.02 and 10.01, respectively.

 


The Company announced the above transactions following the signing of the Purchase and Sale Agreement, the Asset Purchase Agreement and the Ownership and Operating Agreement. The related press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.01 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

The Purchase and Sale Agreement, the Asset Purchase Agreement, and the Ownership and Operating Agreement, which have been included to provide stockholders with information regarding their terms, contain representations and warranties by the respective parties made solely for the benefit of the other. The assertions embodied in those representations and warranties are qualified by information in disclosure schedules that the parties have exchanged in connection with signing the agreements. Moreover, certain representations and warranties in these agreements were made as of a specified date, may be subject to a contractual standard of materiality different from what might be viewed as material to stockholders or may have been used for the purpose of allocating risk between the parties rather than establishing matters as facts. Accordingly, the representations and warranties in these agreements should not be relied on by any persons as characterizations of the actual state of facts about the parties at the time they were made or otherwise.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(c) Exhibits

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit Number

 

Description

 

 

 

2.01

 

Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of January 21, 2008, entered into by and among Redbud Energy I, LLC, Redbud Energy II, LLC and Redbud Energy III, LLC and Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (Certain exhibits and schedules hereto have been omitted and the registrant agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such omitted exhibits and schedules to the Commission upon request) (Filed as Exhibit 2.01 to OGE Energy’s Form 8-K filed January 24, 2008 (File 1-12579) and incorporated by reference herein).

2.02

 

Asset Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 21, 2008, entered into by and among Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority and the Grand River Dam Authority (Certain exhibits and schedules hereto have been omitted and the registrant agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such omitted exhibits and schedules to the Commission upon request) (Filed as Exhibit 2.02 to OGE Energy’s Form 8-K filed January 24, 2008 (File 1-12579) and incorporated by reference herein).

10.01

 

Ownership and Operating Agreement, dated as of January 21, 2008, entered into by and among Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority and the Grand River Dam Authority (Filed as Exhibit 10.01 to OGE Energy’s Form 8-K filed January 24, 2008 (File 1-12579) and incorporated by reference herein).

99.01

 

Press release dated January 21, 2008, announcing OG&E, GRDA and OMPA to Acquire Redbud Power Plant from Kelson Holdings.

 

 

 


SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

 

(Registrant)

 

 

By:

/s/ Scott Forbes

 

Scott Forbes

 

Controller – Chief Accounting Officer

 

 

 

January 25, 2008

 

 

EX-99 2 ogande8k012508ex9901.htm

Exhibit 99.01

 

OG&E, GRDA and OMPA to Acquire Redbud Power Plant from Kelson Holdings

OG&E to acquire 51 percent interest and operate 1,230-MW facility

 

OGE Energy Corp. announced today that its regulated utility subsidiary, OG&E, has signed definitive agreements with Kelson Holdings LLC (Kelson Holdings), the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) and the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (OMPA) to purchase the natural gas-fired Redbud power plant near Luther.

 

Kelson Holdings, a Maryland holding company, agreed to sell Redbud for $852 million following a competitive sale process involving Redbud. Subject to various regulatory approvals and closing conditions, OG&E will acquire a 51 percent interest in the Redbud facility, GRDA 36 percent and OMPA 13 percent. OG&E would operate the plant, which has four, 300-megawatt-plus generating units.

 

“The purchase of the Redbud plant fills the need for electric generation that was to have been met by the construction of the coal-fired Red Rock plant, which was cancelled late last year,” said Pete Delaney, OGE Energy Corp. Chairman, President and CEO. “Redbud is a new, efficient combined-cycle, gas-fired plant connected to the OG&E transmission system near the Oklahoma City area, -- similar to our McClain gas-fired plant, which we acquired in 2004. Our purchase price is below the cost of constructing a new, gas-fired facility, locking in savings for our customers for years to come.”

 

He added that the opportunity to participate in the Redbud sale process required quick action on the company’s part.

 

“This was an opportunity that required quick action,” Delaney said. “This is our second attempt to acquire the plant following an earlier offer for Redbud as an alternative to the McClain power plant purchase. We had to meet some short timelines in an effort to participate in this competitive bidding process and are very pleased to be able to put together a partnership with GRDA and OMPA to take advantage of this opportunity for our customers.”

 

Delaney also stressed that in addition to the Redbud acquisition OG&E will continue to focus on reducing demand through conservation, efficiency and demand-side management initiatives.

 

OG&E serves more than 762,000 retail customers across 30,000 square miles in Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and a number of wholesale customers throughout the region. With about 6,100 megawatts of capacity in eight power plants, OG&E generates electricity from natural gas and western coal. OG&E also has two wind farms with 170 megawatts of capacity, with plans and projects expected to increase that total by 600 megawatts in the years ahead.

 


GRDA, with total generation capability of 1,480 megawatts, transmits and delivers wholesale electricity across a 24-county service area in Northeast Oklahoma to municipal power providers, electric cooperatives and industries.

 

OMPA provides wholesale electricity to 35 Oklahoma cities and towns that own their electric systems.

 

Kelson Holdings is a leading independent power producer engaged in the business of owning and operating electric generating facilities. Kelson Holdings currently owns or leases four combined-cycle gas-fired facilities located in SPP and SERC having an aggregate total generating capacity of 4,002 MWs. Kelson Holdings is indirectly and wholly owned by Harbinger Capital Partners.

 

 

 

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