Speakers

Garry Waggoner is the Vice President of Generation Services for Vistra’s Fossil, Renewables, and Battery Operations. Vistra’s wholesale business activities include nuclear, fossil, renewables, and BESS generation, along with mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and development operations.

Waggoner joined the company in 1982 and has 43 years of fossil generation and corporate operations, maintenance, reliability, and engineering experience. In his current role, he leads an organization of more than 100 multidisciplined engineers and technical specialists, providing operational risk-based expertise to support the safe and reliable

operation of the extended fossil, renewables, and battery generation fleet, as well as providing support for corporate strategic and development engineering needs.

In his corporate roles, Waggoner has been responsible for fleet engineering, maintenance, and reliability services. These include development and implementation of Vistra’s centralized fleet monitoring and diagnostic Power Optimization Center, leading the corporate transition from mainframe CMMS to Maximo EAM, development and implementation of the fossil generation boiler and machinery program for managing equipment hazard risk based on the nuclear power NEIL program, and development and implementation of Vistra’s fossil reliability process based on INPO AP-913 and EPRI’s PRO processes.

Waggoner also led the extension of Vistra’s maintenance, reliability, and engineering standards and processes across the extended fleet following the merger with Dynegy in 2018. Waggoner chairs the Vistra Executive Safety Committee, serves as director for Vistra’s Emergency Operations Center, and serves on the EPRI Generation Sector Council.

Prior to his corporate responsibilities, Waggoner worked in nine fossil generation plants across Texas in various operations, maintenance, engineering, and leadership roles.

Waggoner holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University and is a registered professional engineer in Texas. He is married with four children and one grandson, and he enjoys travel with his wife Kathy.