About this collection

NRG Energy, Inc. is an energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company was formerly a subsidiary of formerly Northern States Power Company (later Xcel Energy) but became an independent corporation in 2000. The companies activities entail generating energy and delivering electricity to the public using natural gas generation, coal generation, oil generation, nuclear generation, wind generation, utility-scale generation, and distributed solar generation.

Beginning in 2009, the company began investing resources in becoming a green energy producer and developing clean energy projects like wind power, solar thermal energy, photovoltaic, and distributed solar power facilities, and repowering of some of their traditional coal plants with biomass.

This digital collection of Sustainability Reports released by the company document NRG Energy's activities between 2010 and 2020 toward that goal, as well as other markers of sustainability and corporate responsibility such as community giving, transparency, diversity, equity and inclusion.