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Berlin, Conn.-based Northeast Utilities has sold roughly 19 million common shares to take advantage of its move to Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index from the S&P MidCap 400 index.

National Wind is seeking a partner to provide capital to speed up its wind project pipeline in order to take advantage of loan guarantees as part of the stimulus package.

Hal Clark, co-chairman of global power and utilities investment banking at Citigroup in New York, is planning on retiring in June.

Top officials from San Francisco-based NaturEner USA are in New York this week talking to banks about financing for the company’s 103.5 MW Glacier 2 wind farm in Ethridge, Mont. The company will look to secure funds within the next quarter, project financiers say. Alfredo Cahaus, cfo, and Juan Quiroga, cfo of Spanish parent company Grupo NaturEner, are both in New York but declined to comment. Construction on the project is slated to begin this year.

Rosemead, Calif.-based Southern California Edison has issued $750 million in first mortgage and refunding bonds after a state rate-increase approval. “They did receive a pretty favorable rate case decision and they could be going on that positive momentum,” says A.J. Sabatelle, v.p. and senior credit officer at Moody’s Investors Service in New York. The California Public Utilities Commission’s decision allows for rate increases of less than 2% a year in 2010 and 2011. That increase translates into $2.1 billion over three years for transmission upgrades. Moody’s rate’s the Edison International subsidiary A3.

CoBank and KeyBanc Capital Markets have reportedly signed on to the financing backing the construction of First Wind’s 203 MW Milford Corridor wind farm. Royal Bank of Scotland is leading the $376 million deal for the Milford, Utah, project and is looking to close the deal in about three weeks, says a deal tracker.

Calgary-based Pristine Power is looking beyond relationship life insurance lenders and talking to banks to finance its $365 million, 393 MW gas-fired York Energy Centre peaker in King, Ontario.

Glacier Partners, a New York-based spinoff of Iceland's Glitnir Bank, is merging with boutique investment bank Pritchard Capital Partners to widen its investor base in energy finance.

Conduit Capital Partners is seeking advisors as it prepares to line up financing for its $1.4 billion, 700-mile Kuntur Transportadora de Gas pipeline in southern Peru. The project is to be funded with 50/50 equity and debt.

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