2023 Esg Data Download
2023 Esg Data Download
Board of Directors
Number of Board Directors 13 10 10
Director Gender
Number of Men 12 8 7
Number of Women 1 2 3
Director Independence
Number of Independent Directors 11 9 9
Director Ethnic Diversity
Sources: 2017: 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement; 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021: Sustain
2022: 2022 Year-In-Review Report.
2023: 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement
2020 2021 2022 2023
ectors
11 11 11 13
ender
7 7 7 8
4 4 4 5
endence
10 10 10 12
Diversity
3 3 3 2
Source: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021: SASB Standards Tables, contained in each year's Sustainability Report;
2022: SASB Standards Table contained in 2022 Year-In-Review Report.
2023: Data sourced from dedicated internal teams responsible for its measurement.
Workforce Diversity
Data contained in this section are from NRG's annual EEO-1 reports. The EEO-1 Report for 2023 is expected to become available during the summer of 2024 and we will update and repost this data file
shortly thereafter. Please check back at that time for this information.
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
Source: Data sourced from dedicated internal teams responsible for its measurement.
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR)
Dec. 31, 2023 have been removed from percentages in previous years.
64 63 66 80 72
Other Waste Data
of Dec. 31, 2023 have not been removed from historical inventories.
93 93 22 29 10
2022 2023
80 70
22 60
Metric 2014 2015
Reported volumes in the 2017 and 2018 Sustainability Reports account for water withdrawn and discharged fro
Sustainability Reports as well as the 2022 Year-In-Review Report account for water usage only from NRG power
organizational boundaries change, we will evaluate whether to include those components in fu
Water Withdrawal (m
Fresh Water Withdrawal 3,581 3,114
Non-Fresh Water Withdrawal 1,764 1,939
Total Water Withdrawal 5,345 5,053
Percentage Change in Water Withdrawal from 2014
Water Discharge (m
Fresh Water Discharge 3,441 3,043
Non-Fresh Water Discharge 1,757 1,931
Total Water Discharge 5,198 4,974
Water Consumed (mi
Total Water Consumed 147 79
Source: Data sourced from dedicated internal teams responsible for its measurement.
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
ater withdrawn and discharged from NRG power generation facilities and nongeneration facilities, such as corporate office
water usage only from NRG power generation facilities. The amount of water consumed at nongeneration facilities is imma
to include those components in future inventories. Sold assets as of Dec. 31, 2023 have been removed from historical inve
-71
86 126 93
Metric 2014 2015
U.S. Greenhous
To ensure consistency and relevance, NRG’s base year (2014) greenhouse gas emissions are recalculated a
Greenhouse Gas Protocol: A Corporate Accountin
Millions of metric tons of CO2 equivalent 58 51
Percentage change since 2014
Air Em
All assets sold as of December 31, 2023 ha
Annual U.S. SO2 Emissions (million kg) 110 87
Percentage change since 2014
Annual U.S. NOx Emissions (million kg) 29 23
Percentage change since 2014
Annual U.S. Mercury Emissions (U.S tons) 0.9 0.5
Percentage change since 2014
Source: Data sourced from dedicated internal teams responsible for its measurement.
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
se gas emissions are recalculated annually following changes to NRG's gneration asset portfolio. Such recalculations are m
Gas Protocol: A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, Revised Edition, 2004.
38 39 39 34 25
Air Emissions
ts sold as of December 31, 2023 have been removed from historic inventories.
68 50 48 34 27
19 18 18 16 11
33 35 24
-58
39 41 32
-71
16 18 12
-59
0.08 0.07 0.04
-96
Metric 2017 2018 2019
NRG Electricity Generation Capacity by Fuel Type (MW)
Coal 8,984 7,919 7,919
Natural Gas 14,281 9,987 9,753
Nuclear 1,136 1,126 1,126
Oil 3,832 3,621 3,600
Renewable 4,858 459 383
Total 33,091 23,112 22,781
NRG Electricity Generation Capacity by Fuel Type (Percent of Tot
Coal 27 34 35
Natural Gas 43 43 43
Nuclear 3 5 5
Oil 12 16 16
Renewable 15 2 2
Total 100 100 100
Sources: 2017: 2017 Sustainability Report; 2018-2023: Form 10-K Reports for each year
Percentages are equal to NRG generation capacity plus current and future renewable electricity capacity from p
represent generation capacity (MW), not actual net generation or total electricity sold (MWh). The percentages
for resale. This metric was first reported in NRG's 2020 Annual Sustainability R
Coal
Natural Gas
Nuclear
Oil
Renewable
Renewable PPAs
Total
Sources: 2020 and 2021: Sustainability Reports, derived from Form 10-K Report data
2022: 2022 Year-In-Review Report, derived from Form 10-K Report data
2023: Derived from Form 10-K Report data
2020 2021 2022 2023
city by Fuel Type (MW)
7,919 7,919 6,727 6,727
9,824 8,150 7,881 5,712
1,132 1,132 1,132 0
3,600 455 455 455
323 221 221 218
22,798 17,877 16,416 13,112
Fuel Type (Percent of Total)
35 44 41 51
43 46 48 44
5 6 7 0
16 3 3 3
1 1 1 2
100 100 100 100
32 39 36 45
40 40 42 38
5 6 6 0
15 2 2 3
1 1 1 1
7 13 13 13
100 100 100 100
Metric 2014 2020 2021
Carbon Intensity of Electricity Generation
Sold assets as of Dec. 31, 2023 have been removed from percentages in previous years.
US Generation (MW) 61,304,485 31,413,214 39,692,702
US CO2e emissions (tonnes) 58,474,562 25,108,720 33,004,376
Revenues below include NRG's total operating revenue (including international) not just Plant Operations reven
adjusted for sold or divested assets.
Total Operating Revenues ($MM) $26,989
Revenue Carbon Intensity (CO2e in
tonnes)/$MM) 1,223
Source: Data sourced from dedicated internal teams responsible for its measurement.
2022 2023
tion
ntages in previous years.
41,672,215 31,034,552
34,708,791 24,375,429
0.83 0.79
$31,543 $28,823
1,100 846
Metric 2014 2015 2016
Environmental Key Perf
NRG's environmental performance metric counts environmental incidents such as reportable spills, permit dev
Numbers below are the company’s Environmental Key Performance Index (EKPI) score each year as a percent
NRG generation
Percentage 100 94 76
Source: Data sourced from dedicated internal teams responsible for its measurement.
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Environmental Key Performance Index
reportable spills, permit deviations, and receipts of Notices of Violation. Fewer incidents results in a lower, more favorable
score each year as a percentage of the base year of 2014. The base year has been recalculated to reflect the composition
NRG generation fleet.
77 53 59 34 63
2022 2023
49 42