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April 4, 2025
The Honorable Carla Wixom and Members of the City Council
Mr. Airlin Singewald, Community Development Director
City of Morro Bay
595 Harbor Street
Morro Bay, CA 93442
Dear Mayor Wixom, Members of the Council & Director Singewald:
Thank you for your continued service to the community and your engagement with Vistra Corp. regarding our proposal to reinvest at the retired Morro Bay Power Plant site. In 2020, we filed a development application that proposed to reuse a small portion of the site, adjacent to critical transmission infrastructure that helps deliver electricity across California, to develop an energy storage facility. We appreciate all the City’s work undertaken to complete the required analysis and environmental review of the proposed project.
Last year, Vistra requested a pause in municipal consideration of our proposal. Following recent procedural discussions with the City, it was mutually agreed that withdrawing the 2020 application was appropriate. By this letter, Vistra hereby withdraws its pending application for approvals of a master plan and renewable energy project. We ask that the City cease any further processing of the application.
When there is more to share about our redevelopment plans, including the potential to use the Opt-In Certification Program to objectively review a plan to renew and reuse the Morro Bay Power Plant site, we will inform you and the community.
The Morro Bay property remains an underutilized asset adjacent to pre-existing transmission infrastructure. We remain committed to evaluating how best to deploy new energy technologies at the site to deliver a solution that is good for the community, our company, and the state of California’s reliability and electric needs.
We received your communication of March 12, 2025, and we respectfully decline your offer to gift the City of Morro Bay our private property.
Vistra looks forward to working with you in good faith in the future.
Sincerely,
Claudia J. Morrow
Senior Vice President, Development
Vistra Corp.