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| Formerly | Vistra Energy Corp. |
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| Company type | Public |
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| Founded | 2016 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
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| Revenue |  US$17.2 billion (2024) |
| US$4.1 billion (2024) | |
| Total assets | US$37.8 billion (2024) |
Number of employees | approx. 6,850 (December 2024) |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | vistracorp |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Vistra Corp. is a Fortune 500 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, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities.
In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Vistra Energy was ranked as the 756th-largest public company in the world.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
- ^ "Vistra 2024 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 28 February 2024.
- ^ "Forbes Global 2000". Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ "PERI - Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index". Political Economy Research Institute. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
- ^ https://peri.umass.edu/greenhouse-100-polluters-index-current, Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index (2024 Report, Based on 2022 Data, December 2024, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), January 24, 2025