Approach

We’re committed to managing our business in environmentally responsible ways while offering products and services to help our customers do the same.

2022 Year in Review

Committed to a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2025

That's based on a 2014 baseline. And we are working toward net-zero emissions by 2050.

Our sustainability strategy

NRG’s approach to sustainability informs our collective efforts. It is an integral piece of our corporate strategy and ties directly to business success, reduced risk, and enhanced reputation.

As we help to drive the energy transition, our goal is to provide more clean energy choices to our customers and help reduce the overall environmental and social impacts associated with the use of our products. This includes:

Providing sustainable energy solutions
Optimizing the efficiency of our generation fleet
Reducing our carbon footprint
Leveraging cleaner energy technologies
Supporting the advancement of our employees through health, safety, and personal and professional growth

We are committed to making a positive impact where our customers and employees live and work. By reducing our operations' environmental footprint, we will ensure the long-term reliability, competitiveness, and success of NRG.

Start with customers. Arrive at solutions.

A customer-focused approach brings homes and businesses into our sustainability story.

Solutions for home

A lower carbon footprint starts at home. For our retail electricity brands, including Reliant, Green Mountain Energy, Stream, and Goal Zero, it starts with making things easy for customers. Gone are the days where being efficient was seen as sacrificial, old-fashioned, and difficult. Instead, that’s been replaced by technology, transparency, and ease. All of our retail brands continued to embrace this transformation in 2020.

Solutions for business

In 2020, we guided more business customers to what’s optimal, leveraging our energy industry knowledge, a technology-agnostic mindset, and a focus on their unique situations, goals, and needs. From there, robust solutions — efficient, resilient, cost-effective, and sustainable — naturally emerged.

Generation and supply

We serve our customers' demand for electricity in a number of ways. Whether generating power from our fleet with diverse fuel sources and geographic proximity to our customers, selectively purchasing power from the market, or entering long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewables, we’re sourcing power in ways that meet our customers’ needs and values.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

We recognize that in order to serve our customers and our communities we must live our values. One of our core Power Values includes creating a work environment where our colleagues are treated fairly and with respect, and where each voice matters. We are building on that position by reshaping our hiring and promotion practices, continually improving policies to be more inclusive, and by doubling the number of our Business Resource Groups (BRGs) where employees can share and receive support from their colleagues.

Diversity at NRG as of 2022

Gender diversity chart overall and by workstream type

Community and philanthropic outreach through positiveNRG

PositiveNRG is our company’s philanthropic giving program. It helps to build our culture by creating a workplace that empowers employees to support communities, causes, and organizations that they elect to champion through donations of their time and/or money. The platform offers multiple touch points, which allow for engagement with non-profit organizations and internal employee team building.

Employees Engaged as of 2022

Volunteer hours	States and Provinces where employees volunteered	Engaged with positiveNRG
14K	21 states and Provinces	27%

Commitment

Nonprofits served by volunteers and donations	Donations given to charities
1,000+	$6.6 MM

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