RHODE ISLAND
Vistra (NYSE: VST) combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with a focus on safe, reliable, and efficient power generation. Through our retail subsidiaries, Vistra provides retail electric products to Rhode Island consumers.
Brands in RI
Viridian
(Retail Electric)
Public Power
(Retail Electric)
RI Overview
Interconnection: ISO-NE
Nameplate Generation Capacity: 2,141.4 MW
Annual Electric Generation: 8,375,257 MWh
Annual Electric Consumption: 7,583,339 MWh
Annual Natural Gas Consumption: 99,428 MMCF
Annual CO2 Emissions: 3,347,859 Metric Tons
Population: 1.05 million (<1% total U.S.)
Housing Units: 0.46 million (<1% total U.S.)
Business Establishments: 0.03 million (<1% total U.S.)
State capacity, generation, consumption and emission statistics from EIA.gov 2018 data (latest available). Nameplate capacity and generation includes all sources. Consumption represents sales to ultimate consumers across all customer classes. Natural gas consumption by end use. CO2 emissions from all electric generation sources, does not include transportation or other sources.
Key Issues
Competitive Markets: We believe in the power of competition to spark innovation and unleash customer benefits and value. As such, we believe that markets should be allowed to function freely with minimal oversight and regulated only to the extent needed to ensure a fair and equitable treatment of market participants and customers.
Customer Protections: We believe that customers should be protected against bad actors in the market. As such, we believe that customer protection regulations should provide relief to customers in these situations. We believe that customer protections should be structured in such a way that does not inhibit innovation, prevent fair business practices or punish good actors operating in good faith.
Limited Income & Vulnerable Group Protections: We believe that certain groups of customers may require greater assistance and/or protections than other classes. Among these are limited income, elderly, and medical critical care customers. We support public and private programs to assist these customers with their energy needs and protections to ensure they have the energy they need to prevent life-threatening conditions.
EV & EV Infrastructure: Vistra supports the adoption of electric vehicles and the build out of EV infrastructure, including charging stations. Vistra believes that EVs and EV infrastructure are competitive products and should be provided through the competitive market. While Vistra does not support subsidization of competitive products in general, if legislative or regulatory action is taken to provide out-of-market support to EVs or EV infrastructure Vistra believes that these out-of-market actions should be targeted, time limited and done outside of utility rates.