GenOn Holdings, LLC Announces Extension of Retirement of Avon Lake and Cheswick Power Plants

Units total 1,192 MW in Ohio and Pennsylvania

(Houston, Texas, July 15, 2021)  

In June 2021, GenOn Holdings, LLC (GenOn) announced that it had initiated the process to permanently retire its 627MW Avon Lake Generating Station located in Avon Lake, OH and its 565MW Cheswick Generating Station located in Springdale, PA and anticipated retirement of the plants by September 15, 2021.   GenOn now anticipates retiring Avon Lake and Cheswick Stations on April 1, 2022.

GenOn is a competitive independent power producer that, following the retirement of these units, will own approximately 7,285 MW of electric generation facilities located in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, and California.   

For more information on this topic, please contact Daniel D. McDevitt, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at GeneralCounsel@GenOn.com.