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Vistra is responsibly operating, retiring, and transitioning its Illinois power plant sites to support the state’s economic and energy needs. The company’s recent investments of more than $1 billion have added 570 MW of generation and 24 MWh of storage across Illinois.
Vistra’s Illinois Power Plant Sites
Renew Illinois Power is the official site of Vistra Corp. for information about the company’s power plant sites across Illinois. The company operates generation across the state, has retired several sites, and is assessing opportunities for additional redevelopment at other power plant properties.
Through its Illinois Redevelop & Reuse Initiative, Vistra puts existing plant properties back to work. New generation and storage have been built on land the plants already occupied — property reserved for power generation decades ago. Deploying new generation at these plant properties reuses some of the transmission and interconnection assets already in place. Future redevelopment at any given site depends on economic, regulatory, and market conditions.
Recent Vistra Investment in Illinois
“Each plant site is unique, and rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, we have spent years in a deliberate process to develop actionable redevelopment plans that reuse the considerable infrastructure and resources at our power plant sites across Illinois.”
– CLAUDIA MORROW, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT, VISTRA
Inside the Illinois Redevelop & Reuse Initiative
Vistra has completed four new energy projects in Illinois, adding 570 megawatts of generation to the state’s grid.
By placing new generation assets, including utility-scale solar or energy storage projects at power plants, we reuse the existing infrastructure and transmission lines at the sites. This reduces the need to build transmission and other utility equipment elsewhere, which is costly and time-consuming.
Using acres of land at existing or former power plant sites and reclaimed brownfield land for new energy technologies brings economic benefits to local communities. It also supports a Just Transition and helps bring new energy resources to Illinois’ grid.
This approach matches the state’s policy goals. The new power generation facilities are built on land the plant has owned and maintained for decades. Each brownfield acre used to meet the evolving energy needs of Illinois and America is one more acre saved for other uses like farming.
See what has been built and what is possible at each site on the Community Scorecard.
Site Stewardship and Science-Driven Coal Ash Impoundment Closures
Vistra’s Illinois Footprint
