| Account | Shares | Price | Value | % of acct | Cost/sh | Gain $ | Gain % | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401K | 28 | $305.93 | $8,566 | 0.35% | $176.35 | $3,628 | +73.5% | — |
In short: Named first among the owners of existing Pennsylvania power plants for whom Jefferies' Paul Zimbardo thinks the order "could be a negative." Those companies "had been hoping to make deals with data-center developers to sell them power from those existing plants under specialized contracts" — but Shapiro's demand that data centers build or bring their own power means "existing plants may not be able to sign those special deals anymore." That specialized-contract premium is the core of the co-location trade Talen is identified with.
Talen owns power plants that already exist in Pennsylvania. The trade that made independent power producers exciting over the last two years was co-location: park a data center next to a plant that is already running and sign a long, richly-priced private contract for its output. No new construction, no waiting years in the grid-connection queue — just a premium price for electricity you were already generating.
Shapiro's order attacks precisely that. If a data center must bring or build its own power, then buying it from a plant that is already standing may no longer count — and the order applies whether or not the project connects to the wider grid, so a private wire from an existing plant does not obviously get you around it. Jefferies' analyst is blunt that this is a negative for Talen and its peers.
What is at stake is the premium, not the plant. Talen's generators keep running and keep selling power at market prices; what evaporates is the option on a much better contracted price. That option is a large part of what the market has been paying up for.
In short: Named with Constellation and Vistra ("the Talons") among the unregulated power producers that "have also started to weaken here" despite an environment you would expect to be ideal for them — the tell Verrone reads as politics consuming the utility sector.
Talen is the smaller merchant power producer in the same trio, best known for co-locating data centres directly next to its nuclear generation — the purest expression of the AI-power trade available in public markets.
Named with Constellation and Vistra as also weakening. The read-through is that the market is repricing the entire category, not questioning one company's contracts.
39:57You take the utilities for example. Yes. Regulated utilities have traded poorly all year. They continue to trade poorly. I think as a group they're making new lows here. The unregulated ones, the more power producers, the CEGs and the Talons and the Vistra's have also started to weaken here.
In short: The named firm-power owner: Wagner — the station whose Unit 4 the DOE ordered to keep running through Aug 19 — is one of several Talen units set to close in 2025 but pushed to 2029 under a reliability agreement. A direct beneficiary of grid strain, PJM capacity prices pinned at the cap, and the value of owning reliable baseload generation.
Talen owns power plants, including the aging Wagner station near Baltimore. The whole article is really about why owning a plant like Wagner is suddenly valuable. The US grid is running short of "firm power" — electricity you can switch on whenever you need it (gas, nuclear, hydro, geothermal), as opposed to solar and wind, which only produce when the weather cooperates. Data centers and AI are driving a demand spike the grid hasn't seen in decades, and new plants take years to connect (the wait has grown from under 2 years to over 8). So the government is literally ordering old plants that were scheduled to close — including Talen's Wagner — to keep running, because there's nothing to replace them yet.
The way owners get paid for that reliability is the "capacity market": PJM, the grid operator, holds an auction where generators are paid just to promise their power will be available on the hottest days. Those prices have hit their legal ceiling three auctions in a row — and uncapped, the latest would have cleared roughly $530 per megawatt-day, far higher. The next auction in June 2026 sets the payments for 2028-29. Prins's point: companies like Talen that own reliable, on-demand generation are about to be repriced in public on a fixed date. It's framed as referenced/neutral here (the macro setup), with the specific buy named in her paywalled Pulse Premium follow-up — but the takeaway is that scarcity of firm power is becoming a visible, auction-priced value signal for the owners of it.
In short: Pro pick (returning, +87% since last time). PJM power producer; the grid operator sees +100 GW demand over 10 yrs (≈ all of Japan). An Amazon data-center contract gives ~$50 FCF/share by 2028–29 → ~7× today vs a deserved 15× (a double); a 20% power-price rise (only ~4% of the utility bill) → ~$70/share (a 3X), plus take-or-pay optionality.
Talen owns power plants in the mid-Atlantic US (Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Maryland). The regional grid operator says this one area will need 100 gigawatts more electricity over the next decade — roughly as much as all of Japan uses — and there is no way to build that fast, so power prices keep climbing.
He signed a deal to sell power to an Amazon data center at a premium price. By 2028-29, when that data center is running, the company should throw off about $50 of cash per share. At today's $350 price that's only seven times cash, while a solid power business deserves about fifteen times — so just on the existing deal the stock could double. If power prices rise 20% (which is only a 4% bump on your actual electric bill, since most of the bill is delivery fees, not the power itself), cash per share jumps to ~$70 and the stock could roughly triple. More long-term Amazon-style contracts would be extra upside.
56:21So, even though it's up 87% you're coming back on and you're saying, but wait, there's more. Tell us First, remind us what Talen does, what you're so excited about, and why you think it can do even better. So, Talen is a power producer in an area called the PJM in the US, uh Pennsylvania, Jersey, Maryland area. And the grid operator of the PJM just came out and said that over the next 10 years uh we need to add uh there's going to be demand for 100 gigawatts of power in one small little region of the United States. Now, 100 gigawatts of power
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