Vistra Corp. is an integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas. The company is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 39GW powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, coal, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities.[2]

In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Vistra Energy was ranked as the 756th-largest public company in the world.[3] The company owns the Moss Landing Power Plant in California which as of 2021 contained the largest battery energy storage system in the world (400-MW/1,600-MWh), but was significantly damaged in a fire in January 2025. As of 2020, the company was ranked as the highest CO2 emitter in the US.[4] In 2024, it is ranked first as the No. 1 polluter in the United States for the 2024 Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index Report, producing 1.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions generated in the United States of America, according to the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[5]

History

In 2016, Texas Competitive Electric Holdings (TCEH) parent company of TXU Energy and Luminant, emerged from Chapter 11 (as part of the bankruptcy protection for Energy Future Holdings Corporation).[6] TCEH was then rebranded as Vistra Energy.[7]

Vistra acquired Dynegy in 2018. In 2019, Ambit Energy was acquired, resulting in a 32% residential market share in Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), with NRG Energy as its largest competitor.[8] It also acquired Crius Energy in 2019.[9]

Im Mai 2025 kündigte Vistra an, sieben Gaskraftwerke für 1,9 Milliarden US-Dollar von Lotus Infrastructure Partners zu erwerben. [ 10 ]

Referenzen

  1. ^ „Vistra Jahresbericht 2024 (Formular 10-K)“ . US-Börsenaufsichtsbehörde (Securities and Exchange Commission ). 28. Februar 2024.
  2. ^ https://vistracorp.com/generation/
  3. ^ „Forbes Global 2000“ . Forbes . Abgerufen am 31. Oktober 2020 .
  4. ^ „PERI – Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index“ . Political Economy Research Institute . Abgerufen am 23.02.2023 .
  5. ^ https://peri.umass.edu/greenhouse-100-polluters-index-current , Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index (Bericht 2024, basierend auf Daten von 2022, Dezember 2024, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), 24. Januar 2025
  6. ^ „TCEH verlässt das Insolvenzverfahren nach Chapter 11“ . PR Newswire (Pressemitteilung) . Abgerufen am 24.02.2022 .
  7. ^ „Vistra Corp Unternehmensgeschichte“ . Abgerufen am 15.09.2021 .
  8. ^ „Vistras Einkaufstour geht weiter mit der 475-Millionen-Dollar-Übernahme von Ambit“ . Utility Dive . Abgerufen am 11.04.2020 .
  9. ^ „Analysten sind optimistisch für Vistra, da das Unternehmen durch die Crius-Übernahme sein Privatkundengeschäft ausbaut“ . www.spglobal.com . Abgerufen am 11.04.2020 .
  10. ^ „Tech in Asia – Vernetzung des asiatischen Startup-Ökosystems“ . www.techinasia.com . Abgerufen am 16.05.2025 .