NRG ENERGY, INC. 4

Spencer Gerald Alfred (SVP & Chief Accounting Officer of NRG Energy, Inc.) received 7,793 dividend equivalent rights tied to NRG common stock as an equity-based award on 2026-08-03.

On August 3, 2026, Spencer Gerald Alfred, SVP & Chief Accounting Officer of NRG Energy, Inc., received an automatic accrual of dividend equivalent rights tied to his existing deferred stock units and/or restricted stock units, recorded as an acquisition of common stock at a reference price of $14.00 per share. The filing notes that these dividend equivalents, including a total of 7,793 such rights (of which 126 are specifically identified as dividend equivalent rights), are economically equivalent to NRG common shares and will vest proportionately with the underlying units and may only be settled in NRG common stock. Using NRG’s current market price of approximately $120.73 per share, the economic value of the 7,793 units is about $941,000, and these units represent a significant component of the reporting person’s equity-based compensation rather than an open-market transaction.

Filing Facts

CIK

1013871

Ticker

NRG

Form

4

Source Type

sec

Accession

0001225208-26-006981

Alert Tier

6