NRG ENERGY, INC. 4

Exec VP & Chief Technology Officer Liyanearachchi Dak received an automatic award of dividend equivalent rights tied to NRG Energy, Inc. common stock as part of existing equity compensation, bringing total derivative-equivalent holdings to 63,703 units.

On August 3, 2026, NRG Energy, Inc. Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Liyanearachchi Dak received an automatic accrual of dividend equivalent rights tied to existing deferred stock units and/or restricted stock units, recorded as an acquisition of common stock at a reference price of $24.00 per unit. The Form 4 notes that these dividend equivalents, including 175 such rights, are economically equivalent to NRG common shares and will vest proportionately with the underlying units and can only be settled in NRG common stock. Following this routine equity-compensation-related adjustment, the reporting person held 63,703 derivative-equivalent rights/shares in total on a direct basis, representing an estimated post-transaction holding value of approximately $7.69 million based on the current market price of NRG common stock.

Filing Facts

CIK

1013871

Ticker

NRG

Form

4

Source Type

sec

Accession

0001225208-26-006980

Alert Tier

5