BOSTON, Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Power
Corporation (TSX: ATP) (NYSE: AT) ("Atlantic Power" or the
"Company"), a leading power and infrastructure company, announced
that the Tax Election Information Package for Capital Power Income
L.P. ("CPILP") unitholders who received shares of Atlantic Power
Corporation in connection with Atlantic Power's recent acquisition
of CPILP is available on the Company's website at:
http://www.atlanticpower.com/investors/cpilp-tax-information.aspx.
Any former CPILP unitholder that is an "Eligible Unitholder" may
make a joint tax election with Atlantic Power pursuant to section
85 of the Income Tax Act (Canada)
in respect of the disposition of its CPILP units. Atlantic
Power has made the tax election information package available to
assist former unitholders in completing the joint tax election
form. Completed tax election forms must be submitted to
Atlantic Power's depository agent, Computershare Investor Services
Inc., no later than February 29,
2012.
About Atlantic Power
Atlantic Power is a leading publicly traded, power generation
and infrastructure company with a well diversified portfolio of
assets in the United States and
Canada. Our power generation
projects sell electricity to utilities and other large commercial
customers under long-term power purchase agreements, which seek to
minimize exposure to changes in commodity prices. The net
generating capacity of the Company's projects is approximately
2,116 MW, consisting of interests in 30 operational power
generation projects across 11 states and 2 provinces, one 53 MW
biomass project under construction in Georgia, and an 84-mile, 500 kilovolt electric
transmission line located in California. Atlantic Power also owns a
majority interest in Rollcast Energy, a biomass power plant
developer with several projects under development. Atlantic
Power is incorporated in British
Columbia, headquartered in Boston and has offices in Chicago, Toronto, and Richmond, B.C.
Our corporate strategy is to generate stable cash flows from our
existing assets and to make accretive acquisitions to sustain our
dividend payout to shareholders, which is currently paid monthly at
an annual rate of Cdn$1.15 per share.
Atlantic Power has a market capitalization of approximately
$1.6 billion and trades on the New
York Stock Exchange under the symbol AT and on the Toronto Stock
Exchange under the symbol ATP. For more information, please
visit the Company's website at www.atlanticpower.com or
contact:
Atlantic Power Corporation
Amanda Wagemaker, Investor
Relations
(617) 977-2700
info@atlanticpower.com
Copies of financial data and other publicly filed documents are
available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com or on EDGAR at
www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml under "Atlantic Power Corporation" or on
the Company's website.
SOURCE Atlantic Power Corporation; Capital Power Income L.P.