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Sustainability Impact  

Powering what matters

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Sustainability Impact  

Powering what matters

Our impact     Environmental     Social     Governance     Reporting

Our areas of focus

NRG’s sustainability strategy reflects a simple reality: meeting growing energy demand will require reliability, affordability, and sustainability to advance together. As the energy system grows more complex, we are focused on practical areas where NRG can make measurable progress while continuing to deliver the energy our customers depend on.

Our approach considers how we generate and supply electricity, how customers can participate more actively in the energy system, and how we can improve emissions performance over time. NRG’s 2035 sustainability goals bring greater focus to that work.

Powering what matters

Supporting a reliable, affordable, and more flexible energy future.

Meeting growing energy demand requires more than any one solution. It requires reliable generation, a more flexible energy system, and new ways for customers to manage and participate in how energy is used.

By doing so, we’re powering what matters, helping our customers meet their needs today and tomorrow.

Our role in a changing energy system

Reliable energy

NRG’s generation fleet provides electricity needed to support customers and a growing economy. As demand increases, reliable generation remains foundational to the energy system.

A more clean, flexible grid

Virtual power plants, battery storage, and demand response create more ways to balance electricity supply and demand as grid conditions change.

Customers as part of the solution

NRG helps homes and businesses manage energy more actively through smart-home technology, energy-management programs, demand response, renewable products, and sustainable solutions. 

Our sustainability strategy

Sustainability has long been part of NRG, and our approach continues to reflect the realities of the energy system we operate in.  

NRG’s 2035 sustainability goals translate our strategy into action across three areas connected to our business and the energy system: clean flexible capacity, the carbon intensity of electricity sales, and certified natural gas.

Together, the goals provide a framework for measuring progress as NRG supports growing electricity demand and continues to focus on reliability, affordability, and customer needs.

Our commitments

Clean flexible capacity

25 GW by 2035¹ 

Develop and operate flexible resources that can respond as grid conditions change. Virtual power plants, battery storage, and commercial and industrial demand response create more ways to balance supply and demand while enabling greater customer participation.

Carbon intensity of electricity sales

0.35 mtCO₂e/MWh by 2035² 

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions per MWh  of the electricity NRG sells. A lower carbon intensity means fewer emissions per MWh of electricity sold, allowing NRG to demonstrate emissions progress even as electricity demand grows.³

Certified natural gas⁴

100 million Dth by 2035 

Utilize natural gas in NRG’s generation fleet that has been verified as  lower methane-emissions intensity, addressing emissions earlier in the natural-gas value chain

¹Inclusive of 1 GW residential Texas VPP target by 2035;
²Includes emissions from NRG generation and electricity purchased for resale; 
³Includes emissions from NRG generation and electricity purchased for resale; 
⁴Defined as verified, lower-methane emissions intensity gas. Goal is cumulative.

family playing together in a park.
family playing together in a park.
family playing together in a park.

Supporting a changing energy system

NRG’s sustainability strategy informs how we respond to growing energy demand, changing customer needs, and the long-term performance of the energy system.

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Safe Harbor: The sustainability targets and goals included on this page are forward-looking and subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and changes in circumstances. The sustainability data and metrics included on this page are subject to uncertainties resulting from limitations inherent in the nature and methods of collecting and reporting such data. The selection of different but acceptable measurement techniques, assumptions or methodologies could result in materially different measurements. Certain metrics may be recalculated or restated as methodologies, data sources, standards, business operations, acquisitions, divestitures or other circumstances evolve. Except where otherwise expressly stated, the sustainability data included on this page have not been independently assured.