Independent Transmission Company Built to Partner With Utilities to Accelerate Investment in Critical Grid Infrastructure

BOSTON, Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ArcLight Capital Partners (“ArcLight”) today announced a $1.0 billion equity commitment from its funds to launch Anchor Point Transmission, LLC (“Anchor Point” or “the Company”), an independent transmission company formed to address a critical challenge facing the U.S. power grid: rapid load growth from electrification, manufacturing, and AI compute is driving unprecedented need for transmission infrastructure investment. Anchor Point strives to partner with utilities to help enable, develop, and accelerate the high-voltage transmission infrastructure needed to support that growth.

ArcLight has appointed industry veterans Michael Deggendorf as Executive Chairman and Justin Campbell as President of Anchor Point, combined with a seasoned operating and development team to drive the platform’s success. With Anchor Point’s leadership and resources, and ArcLight’s track record and expertise as one of the largest strategic investors in energy infrastructure and owners of private power infrastructure in North America, the Company is uniquely positioned to be a valued-added partner and solutions provider to the transmission market.

Since its founding in 2001, ArcLight has owned, controlled, or operated over 70 GW of assets and 48,000 miles of electric and gas transmission and storage infrastructure representing more than $90 billion of enterprise value. The firm currently operates the largest private power generation portfolio and thermal development pipeline in North America, supported by an integrated platform of strategic, technical, operational, and commercial specialists.

“ArcLight has spent more than two decades building, connecting and operating critical infrastructure across the energy infrastructure value chain, including transmission,” said Angelo Acconcia, Managing Partner of ArcLight. “Between ArcLight’s in-house operating, technical and commercial resources, our large-scale operating and development platforms in Advanced Power and AlphaGen, and Anchor Point’s capabilities and resources in transmission, we believe we are well positioned to help address the critical need for new infrastructure and be a value-added partner to utilities to help enable their growth and success.”

Anchor Point’s leadership team has been active in transmission development, ownership and operation since the early 2000s. The team’s combined track record includes more than $4 billion in transmission projects developed or originated and over 1,500 miles of transmission constructed, with experience across major U.S. power markets and regulatory jurisdictions.

“Utilities face a record need for transmission investment while managing affordability, reliability, and increasingly complex planning needs,” said Justin Campbell, President of Anchor Point. “Anchor Point was built to be a flexible, value-added long-term partner, bringing development, deep planning and regulatory expertise, and disciplined execution to help utilities meet their customers’ evolving needs.”

“The U.S. transmission system requires substantial investment to support reliability, economic growth, renewable integration, and rapidly increasing electricity demand,” said Michael Deggendorf, Executive Chairman of Anchor Point. “Meeting that challenge requires thoughtful new approaches to partnership, planning, and execution that can accelerate critical infrastructure investment and strengthen and expand the grid.”

Mr. Campbell brings nearly two decades of transmission experience spanning development, system planning, regulatory strategy, and utility partnerships, including leadership roles at GridLiance, Tallgrass Energy, and Edison Transmission. Mr. Deggendorf brings decades of utility and transmission experience, including executive leadership roles at AEP, Great Plains Energy, Transource Energy, and Grid Assurance, with expertise spanning transmission, generation, grid resilience, and infrastructure supporting growing electricity demand.

About Anchor Point Transmission, LLC

Anchor Point Transmission is an independent transmission company that develops, finances, owns, and operates high-voltage transmission infrastructure across the United States. Founded on the principle that meeting the grid’s needs for the coming decades requires new models of partnership and execution, Anchor Point brings flexible capital, creative commercial structures, deep transmission planning and regulatory expertise, and disciplined project execution to utility and cooperative partners nationwide. The company’s leadership has been involved in transmission development since the early 2000s, with experience spanning multiple ISO/RTO markets, state and federal regulatory processes, and cooperative and public power partnerships. For more information, visit anchorptx.com.

About ArcLight Capital Partners

ArcLight is a leading infrastructure investor that has been investing in critical electrification infrastructure since its founding in 2001. ArcLight has owned, controlled, or operated over 70 GW of assets and 48,000 miles of electric and gas transmission and storage infrastructure representing more than $90 billion of enterprise value. ArcLight has a long and proven track record of value-added investing across its core investment sectors, including power, hydro, solar, wind, battery storage, electric transmission, and natural gas transmission, storage infrastructure and digital power to support the growing need for power, reliability, security, and sustainability. ArcLight’s team employs an operationally intensive investment approach that benefits from its dedicated in-house strategic, technical, operational, and commercial specialists, as well as the firm’s ~2,000-person asset management partner. References to “ArcLight” herein refer to ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC and/or its managed investment vehicles, as the context requires. For more information, visit arclight.com.

Media Contacts:

Anchor Point Transmission
Brett Hooton, Chief Commercial Officer
bhooton@anchorptx.com
(501) 951-1144

ArcLight Capital Partners
Charlyn Lusk/Joshua Greenwald
clusk@stantonprm.com/jgreenwald@stantonprm.com
(646) 502-3549/(646) 504-7306

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