RTO Insider: First Shoe to Drop? Vistra to Retire 3 Texas Coal Units
Oct 9, 2017 | News Roundup
Oct. 8 — Luminant, Vistra’s generation arm, has two other 1970s-era coal-fired plants in Big Brown and Martin Lake. The plants, with 3.7 GW of capacity, have combined capacity factors of 59% and 52%, respectively. Luminant’s 18 GW of capacity includes 8 GW of coal-fired generation and 7.5 GW of gas.