Vistra Energy

Vistra Energy (NYSE: VST) is a premier, integrated power company based in Irving, Texas, combining an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with a focus on safe, reliable, and efficient power generation. Through its retail and generation businesses which include TXU Energy, Homefield Energy, Dynegy, and Luminant, Vistra operates in 12 states and six of the seven competitive markets in the U.S., with about 5,400 employees. Vistras retail brands serve approximately 2.9 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers across five top retail states, and its generation fleet totals approximately 41,000 megawatts of highly efficient generation capacity, with a diverse portfolio of natural gas, nuclear, coal, and solar facilities.

Vistra Energy is an integrated retail and generation company, with a strong balance sheet, positive cash flows and a strategy for growth.  With a tradition of operational excellence from predecessor companies that go back more than a century and a vision for the future, Vistra Energy has unique expertise in:

• Customer relationships.
• Commodity pricing.
• Risk management.

Operations

Vistra Energy has offices and operations across the United States. Through its retail and generation businesses which include TXU Energy, Homefield Energy, Dynegy, and Luminant, Vistra operates in 12 states and six of the seven competitive markets in the U.S., with about 6,000 employees.

CEOs Message

As an integrated energy company, Vistra Energy operates an innovative, customer-centric retail business and a generation fleet focused on safely, reliably, and efficiently generating power in the communities we serve.  Electricity is an irreplaceable product that is critical to everyday life, whether it be for residences or businesses. We understand and take very seriously our role to provide cost-effective, reliable power to our customers and help fuel the economy. We also understand and take very seriously that our business has an environmental footprint. We have invested billions of dollars to control emissions, to make our existing power plant fleet more efficient, and to advance our generation fleet into newer, more efficient and lower emitting power plants including renewables, batteries, and state-of-the-art, gas-fueled assets.  The supply side of our business is experiencing a transition, some market-driven and some policy-driven, and we must manage our company through this transition in an economic manner. It is not an option to just say no to change. We can and must participate to the long-term benefit of our company and our stakeholders. We have begun the process of rotating our generation fleet and during this process we will operate a wide variety of facilities as the fuel mix changes based on opportunity to economically produce electricity and provide reliable, cost-effective power to meet our customers needs.  Electricity is essential to societys most important priorities: food production and processing, construction of residences and businesses including hospitals and schools, and production of critical goods and services, such as military equipment and transportation resources. The reliable production and delivery of power is certainly important, but the cost must also be considered. Subsidies and artificial support of electricity resources increase the cost to consumers and ultimately crowd out capital that could be used to support the multitude of societys priorities. No one critical societal priority should be emphasized over another, especially through governmental subsidies that pick winners and losers. Competitive economics should be allowed to prevail.  Balance is the key, and its a theme youl see throughout this sustainability report. Just as our name balances “vision” and “tradition,” we are balancing innovation and reliability, sustainability and efficiency. With our recent Dynegy merger, weve added balance to our geographic presence and the make-up of our generation fleet. Our people balance the work they do in the community with work for the community. With our existing facilities, we strive to balance the impact they make with the benefits they provide.  We take a balanced approach to the products we offer, providing customers a wide range of offers to match their needs and preferences. And as we look to new technologies, we seek to balance the prospect of developing incremental new technologies, such as renewables and batteries, with the financial prudence that has put us in a position to pursue it in the first place.  Vistras story so far has been one of sustainable success. And, in many ways, our story is just beginning.

Reclamation

Since mining began more than 45 years ago, Luminant has reclaimed more than 80,000 acres for use as pastures, forests, wildlife habitat, and water resources, and the company has secured reclamation bond liability releases on 40,000 acres.  Over the last 44 years, Luminant has planted more than 41 million native trees as part of our reclamation program, including over 1.2 million in 2018. More than 30,700 acres of our reforested land are certified by the American Tree Farm System as sustainably managed woodlands, and the Federal Office of Surface Mining has indicated that we plant more trees annually than any mining company in the U.S.