CALPINE CORPORATION JOINDER Case No. 19-30088 (DM)

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Mark E. McKane, P.C. (SBN 230552) 

Michael P. Esser (SBN 268634) 

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

555 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

T: (415) 439-1400 / F: (415) 439-1500 

mark.mckane@kirkland.com 

michael.esser@kirkland.com 

David R. Seligman, P.C. (Pro Hac Vice)

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

300 North LaSalle 

Chicago, IL 60654 

T: (312) 862-2000 / F: (312) 862-2200 

dseligman@kirkland.com 

Aparna Yenamandra (Pro Hac Vice)

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

601 Lexington Avenue 

New York, NY 10022 

T: (212) 446-4800 / F: (212) 446-4900 

aparna.yenamandra@kirkland.com 

Counsel for Calpine Corporation, et al. 

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

In re: 

PG&E Corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric 

Company, 

Debtors. 

☐ Affects PG&E Corporation 

☐ Affects Pacific Gas and Electric Company 

☒ Affects both Debtors 

* All papers shall be filed in the Lead Case, 

No. 19-30088 (DM) 

Chapter 11 

Case No. 19-30088 (DM) 

(Lead Case) 

(Jointly Administered) 

JOINDER OF CALPINE CORPORATION 

TO NEXTERA ENERGY’S LIMITED 

OPPOSITION TO (I) MOTION OF THE 

OFFICIAL COMMITTEE OF TORT 

CLAIMANTS FOR ENTRY OF A 

PROTECTIVE ORDER; AND 

(II) DEBTORS’ MOTION FOR ENTRY OF 

PROTECTIVE ORDER 

Date: 6/26/2019 

Time: 9:30 a.m. PST 

Place: United States Bankruptcy Court 

 Courtroom 17, 16th Floor 

 San Francisco, CA 94102 

Objection Deadline: June 19, 2019 

 4:00 p.m. (PST)

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Calpine Corporation on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, including Geysers Power 

Company, LLC; Gilroy Energy Center, LLC; Los Esteros Critical Energy Facility, LLC; Russell City 

Energy Company, LLC; Calpine King City Cogen, LLC; Calpine Energy Services L.P.; Calpine 

Energy Solutions, LLC; and O.L.S. Energy Agnews, Inc. (collectively, “Calpine”), a party in interest 

in the above-captioned cases, through their counsel Kirkland & Ellis LLP, hereby joins NextEra 

Energy, Inc., and NextEra Energy Partners, L.P. (collectively, “NextEra”) in its limited opposition to 

the (i) Motion of the Official Committee of Tort Claimants for Entry of a Protective Order [Docket 

No. 2419] (the “TCC Motion”), filed by the Official Committee of Tort Claimants (the “TCC”); and 

(ii) Motion for Entry of Protective Order Pursuant to Fed. R. Bankr. P. 7026 and 9014(c) and 11 

U.S.C. § 105(a) Governing Discovery Materials and Other Information [Docket No. 2459]. In support 

hereof (the “Joinder”), Calpine respectfully states as follows:

JOINDER 

Like NextEra, Calpine does not oppose entry of a uniform protective order to govern discovery 

in these Chapter 11 Cases. That protective order, however, should be developed with the input of the 

various parties that could be subject to it during later stages of these cases. Calpine agrees with 

NextEra that any such protective order should permit parties sharing a common interest to share 

Protected Material with each other and exclude non-transcribed oral communications from the 

definition of “Discovery Material.” 

In addition, the Debtors possess sensitive, third-party information as a result of their 

contractual relationships, and the Debtors must use their ability to designate material as Confidential 

or Highly Confidential to honor the Debtors’ obligations to protect third-party information. While 

Calpine does not read the definitions in sections 5.2 and 5.3 of the Debtors’ proposed protective order 

to foreclose the Debtors from making appropriate designations to protect the confidentiality of such 

third-party data, Calpine reserves its rights to address any such issues at the appropriate time. 

NOTICE 

Notice of this Joinder will be provided to (i) the Office of the U.S. Trustee for Region 17 (Attn: 

Anthony R. Vara, Esq. and Timothy Laffredi, Esq.); (ii) counsel to the Debtors; (iii) counsel to the 

Creditors Committee; (iv) counsel to the Tort Claimants Committee; (v) the Securities and Exchange 

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Commission; (vi) the Internal Revenue Service; (vii) the Office of the California Attorney General; 

(viii) the California Public Utilities Commission; (ix) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (x) the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; (xi) the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern 

District of California; (xii) counsel for the agent under the Debtors’ debtor-in-possession financing 

facility; (xiii) counsel to the PPA Counterparties; and (xiv) those persons who have formally appeared 

in these chapter 11 cases and requested service pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 2002. 

Calpine respectfully submits that no further notice is required. 

DATED: June 19, 2019 KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

 By: /s/ Michael P. Esser

Mark E. McKane, P.C. (SBN 230552) 

Michael P. Esser (SBN 268634) 

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

555 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94104 

T: (415) 439-1400 / F: (415) 439-1500 

mark.mckane@kirkland.com 

michael.esser@kirkland.com 

David R. Seligman, P.C. (Pro Hac Vice)

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

300 North LaSalle 

Chicago, IL 60654 

T: (312) 862-2000 / F: (312) 862-2200 

dseligman@kirkland.com 

Aparna Yenamandra (Pro Hac Vice)

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 

601 Lexington Avenue 

New York, NY 10022 

T: (212) 446-4800 / F: (212) 446-4900 

aparna.yenamandra@kirkland.com 

Counsel for Calpine Corporation, et al.

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