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                                                                    Exhibit 99.1

Press Release

SOURCE: Dynegy Inc.

Dynegy Provides Overview of New Capital Plan, Update On Financial Position
Company Obtains Commitments to Eliminate $301 Million in Ratings Triggers

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2002--Dynegy Inc. (NYSE:DYN - News) today
announced a new $2 billion capital plan designed to further strengthen
liquidity, reduce debt and emphasize financial transparency and to allow it to
compete in its core energy businesses. Dynegy also provided an overview of the
company's current financial position.

"Our liquidity is solid and our leadership team has developed a sound set of
business, financial and operational strategies to address current market
conditions and preserve our franchise," said Dan Dienstbier, chief executive
officer of Dynegy Inc. "The measures we plan to implement, combined with the
steps that we have successfully executed in recent weeks, will ensure
sustainable financial stability for Dynegy and are intended to improve the
company's credit profile substantially into 2003 and beyond."

The company reaffirmed that it has adequate liquidity to meet its obligations
and commitments, even in the event of a loss of its investment grade rating by
one or more credit rating agencies. Since the end of May 2002, Dynegy's
liquidity has ranged from $900 million to more than $1 billion.

New capital plan

The company's capital plan is designed to enhance liquidity by at least $2
billion and to further enhance the company's financial position, strengthen its
balance sheet and improve its credit profile. These measures are incremental to
the equity sales and capital expense reductions totaling approximately $1.25
billion that were achieved through the December 2001 capital restructuring
program. Key steps already achieved under the plan include:

     o    Dynegy received commitments from the participants in the Catlin (also
          referred to as "Black Thunder") minority interest transaction for an
          amendment that will permanently remove the $270 million ratings
          trigger in exchange for an amortization of $270 million over the
          remaining three years of the investment and a security interest; and

     o    West Coast Power, LLC, a joint venture in which Dynegy holds 50
          percent ownership with NRG Energy, notified its lenders that it
          intends to repay or refinance its existing bank credit facility by the
          end of June, which will permanently remove a $31 million ratings
          trigger. West Coast Power has sufficient cash on hand to repay the
          debt.

Other new liquidity sources

Dynegy will also target the following areas to improve liquidity by year-end:
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     o    Partial sale of Dynegy's ownership interest in or a joint venture
          transaction for Northern Natural Gas Company, a 16,600-mile pipeline
          extending from the Permian Basin in Texas to the Upper Midwest;

     o    Partial sale of Dynegy's ownership interest in or a joint venture
          transaction for Dynegy Storage, the company's natural gas storage and
          gas processing facilities in the United Kingdom;

     o    Initial public offering of Dynegy Energy Partners L.P., a newly formed
          master limited partnership that will own and operate a portion of the
          company's downstream liquids business;

     o    Incremental $100 million reduction in capital expenditures for the
          remainder of 2002 and limited and focused capital spending in 2003;

     o    Annual savings of at least $50 million relating to the company's
          recently announced work force reduction, as well as other general and
          administrative expense reductions;

     o    Sale of $300 to $400 million in Illinois Power (IP) mortgage bonds to
          repay outstanding debt at IP. The Illinois Commerce Commission has
          approved such a mortgage bond offering;

     o    Sale of additional assets totaling $200 million;

     o    Intention to reduce common stock dividend by 50 percent beginning in
          the third quarter 2002;

     o    In the process of arranging a number of interim financings with
          respect to this plan that should provide $250 million or more in
          immediate liquidity over the next few weeks; and

     o    Management will consider an equity-like offering based on market
          conditions and the results of the capital-enhancing transactions.

Emphasis is on core energy businesses

     o    Continue to emphasize the company's longstanding asset-backed business
          model through which it uses its diversified network of regulated and
          unregulated physical energy assets to deliver reliable supply to
          customers; and

     o    Continue the company's commitment to preserving its energy risk
          management franchise. Dynegy has reduced its power trading activities
          to reflect current market conditions and liquidity levels.

Further enhance accounting and financial disclosure

In addition to its capital spending plan, Dynegy announced several steps to
improve the transparency and clarity of its financial reporting. The company
intends to:

     o    Provide operating cash flow disclosure by segment;

     o    Segregate financial contribution among earnings generated from
          regulated operations, term contracts, fee-based operations, other
          assets and marketing and trading operations;

     o    Provide in a single table a reconciliation of the financial effects of
          risk management activities to the company's balance sheet, income
          statement and cash flow statement;

     o    Undertake the necessary steps to move synthetic operating leases for
          the company's power generation operations onto the balance sheet;

     o    Move the Catlin minority interest to debt through the amendment to the
          Catlin transaction; and
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     o   Complete the previously announced restatement of Dynegy's 2001
         financial results. Because Arthur Andersen can no longer perform
         services for the company, Dynegy's new independent auditor,
         PricewaterhouseCoopers, will conduct a re-audit of 2001 results as part
         of the restatement process.

"The current merchant energy environment requires us to focus on generating cash
flow in the near-term, and our plan will help us accomplish that goal," said
Steve Bergstrom, president and chief operating officer of Dynegy Inc. "Even in
this environment, we have served our customers reliably, as we have done for the
past 17 years. This is a testament to the strength of our asset-backed business
model and our focus on the physical delivery of energy through our network. We
believe that our global network of owned and contractually controlled assets,
coupled with our proven capabilities to execute transactions around these
assets, will continue to serve as the foundation of our merchant energy
business."

Earnings guidance and conference call simulcast

Dynegy will announce its second quarter results and will provide revised
earnings guidance during the last week of July. Due to market conditions,
previous management guidance on earnings no longer applies. The report on the
period ending June 30 will detail certain non-recurring pre-tax charges of up to
$450 million related to the communications business, severance expenses,
consulting fees and other charges.

Dynegy will simulcast a conference call on its business overview live via the
Internet today at 2 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. CT. The webcast can be accessed via
www.dynegy.com (click on "News & Financials").

About Dynegy Inc.

Dynegy Inc. is a global energy merchant. Through its owned and contractually
controlled network of physical assets and its marketing, logistics and risk
management capabilities, Dynegy provides solutions to customers in North
America, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. The company's website is
www.dynegy.com.

Certain statements included in this news release are intended as
"forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. These statements include assumptions, expectations, predictions,
intentions or beliefs about future events. Dynegy cautions that actual future
results may vary materially from those expressed or implied in any
forward-looking statements. Some of the key factors that could cause actual
results to vary materially from those Dynegy expects include changes in energy
commodity prices; the timing and extent of deregulation of energy markets in
North America and Europe; the effectiveness of Dynegy's risk management policies
and procedures and the creditworthiness of customers and counterparties; the
liquidity and competitiveness of wholesale trading markets for energy
commodities; operational factors affecting Dynegy's power generation or
midstream natural gas facilities; the cost of borrowing, availability of trade
credit and other factors affecting Dynegy's financing activities, including
Dynegy's ability to maintain its investment grade ratings; the demand for and
pricing of services offered by Dynegy's telecommunications segment and the
effect of general market conditions in the telecommunications segment on
customers or prospective customers and equipment and service providers;
uncertainties regarding environmental regulations or litigation and other legal
or regulatory developments affecting Dynegy's business, including litigation
relating to the terminated merger with Enron, the
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California power market and shareholder claims, as well as the SEC and CFTC
investigations surrounding Project Alpha and the CMS Energy trades,
respectively; general political, economic and financial market conditions; and
any extended period of war or conflict involving North America or Europe. More
information about the risks and uncertainties relating to these forward-looking
statements are found in Dynegy's SEC filings, which are available free of charge
on the SEC's web site at http://www.sec.gov.