Red Oak is an 830-megawatt combined cycle gas turbine power plant located in Sayreville, New Jersey not far from the South River opened in 2002.

[2] Energy Capital acquired it from a subsidiary of the AES Corporation in April 2012,[3][4] which, in November 2013, sold it to the Carlyle Group.

[5] Damage to the plant due to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 took it offline line for five months.

[6] TAQA subsidiary TAQA Gen-X owns 85% and Morgan Stanley owns 15% of the tolling agreement for the facility through its with partner.

A 2013 report named It is one of the largest single sources of carbon pollution in the state.