Talen Energy

Talen Energy is in a plan-stage restructuring built around a negotiated reorganization, with the case record showing the debtors moved from a May 2022 liquidity filing to a December 2022 joint chapter 11 plan and later plan-supplement activity in October 2023 through the Sixth Amended Plan Supplement noticeDkt. 76. The case began when Talen Energy Supply, LLC filed chapter 11 on May 9, 2022, after volatility in natural gas and power markets created large collateral demands against its hedging book and strained liquidity, including collateral requirements that reached $451 million in October 2021; the first-day declaration also described a capital structure with about $4.455 billion of funded debt and a business spanning 18 generation facilities with roughly 13,000 MW of capacity First Day DeclarationDkt. 16.

The filing path was not a free-fall liquidation. The debtors entered chapter 11 with a restructuring support agreement, access to a roughly $1.758 billion superpriority senior secured DIP facility, and a proposed deleveraging transaction that included a rights offering of up to $1.65 billion and conversion of senior unsecured noteholder claims into equity, as described in the First Day DeclarationDkt. 16. The debtors then moved quickly into plan prosecution, filing a disclosure statement in September 2022 Disclosure StatementDkt. 1207 and adding parent Talen Energy Corporation to the chapter 11 cases in December 2022 to support a broader settlement and tax-efficient restructuring architecture .