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Income Per Share (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Earnings Per Share [Abstract]

NRG's basic and diluted (loss)/income per share

NRG's basic and diluted income per share is shown in the following table:

			Three months ended September 30,												Nine months ended September 30,
(In millions, except per share data)			2022						2021						2022						2021
Basic and diluted income per share:
Net income			$	67					$	1,618					$	2,316					$	2,614
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding - basic and diluted			235						245						238						245
Income per weighted average common share — basic and diluted			$	0.29					$	6.60					$	9.73					$	10.67

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Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 260
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=124432515&loc=d3e3550-109257

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