Electricity generator and retailer Vistra held the first such meeting on Wednesday at an elementary school in the Morro Bay area of California's San Luis Obispo County. The company wants to site a 600MW/2,400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) asset at the site of the former Morro Bay thermal power plant, which stopped generating in 2014. Vistra proposed the project to local authorities in 2021.