ASC 815 requires the Company to recognize all derivative instruments on the balance sheet as either assets or liabilities and to measure them at fair value each reporting period unless they qualify for a NPNS exception. The Company may elect to designate certain derivatives as cash flow hedges, if certain conditions are met, and defer the change in fair value of the derivatives to accumulated OCI, until the hedged transactions occur and are recognized in earnings.

For derivatives that are not designated as cash flow hedges or do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment, the changes in the fair value will be immediately recognized in earnings. Certain derivative instruments may qualify for the NPNS exception and are therefore exempt from fair value accounting treatment. ASC 815 applies to NRG's energy related commodity contracts, foreign exchange contracts, interest rate swaps and Consumer Financing Program.

As the Company engages principally in the trading and marketing of its generation assets and retail operations, some of NRG's commercial activities qualify for NPNS accounting. Most of the retail load contracts either qualify for the NPNS exception or fail to meet the criteria for a derivative and the majority of the retail supply and fuels supply contracts are recorded under mark-to-market accounting. All of NRG's hedging and trading activities are subject to limits within the Company's Risk Management Policy.

On October 1, 2024, the Company elected NPNS for certain existing derivative contracts. Upon election of NPNS, the Company discontinued derivative accounting treatment and will no longer remeasure the derivative contracts at fair value each reporting period. The fair values of these derivative contracts were frozen as of October 1, 2024 and the Company is derecognizing the fair values to earnings at the same time as the contracts mature. The values of these contracts are included in Derivative instruments captions in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Subsequent to the election date, costs associated with these contracts will be recorded when the underlying physical transaction is delivered. These derivative contracts extend through 2036.

To manage the commodity price risk associated with the Company's competitive supply activities and the price risk associated with wholesale power sales from the Company's electric generation facilities and retail power and gas sales from NRG's retail operations, NRG enters into a variety of derivative and non-derivative hedging instruments, utilizing the following:

Also, as of December 31, 2024, NRG had other energy-related contracts that did not meet the definition of a derivative instrument or qualified for the NPNS exception and were therefore exempt from fair value accounting treatment as follows:

In order to mitigate foreign exchange risk primarily associated with the purchase of USD denominated natural gas for the Company's Canadian business, NRG enters into foreign exchange contract agreements through 2028.

NRG is exposed to changes in interest rate through the Company's issuance of variable rate debt. To manage the Company's interest rate risk, NRG enters into interest rate swap agreements. The Company had $1.0 billion of interest rate swaps extending through 2027 to hedge the floating rate of the Vivint Term Loans and interest rate swaps with a total nominal value of $700 million extending through 2029 to hedge the floating rate of the Term Loans which were terminated in November 2024. In November 2024, in connection with the amendment of the Term Loans, the Company entered into $700 million of interest rate swaps through 2029 to hedge its floating rate.

Under the Consumer Financing Program, Vivint Smart Home pays a monthly fee to Financing Providers based on either the average daily outstanding balance of the loans or the number of outstanding loans. For certain loans, Vivint Smart Home incurs fees at the time of the loan origination and receives proceeds that are net of these fees. Vivint Smart Home also shares the liability for credit losses, depending on the credit quality of the customer. Due to the nature of certain provisions under the Consumer Financing Program, the Company records a derivative liability that is not designated as a hedging instrument and is adjusted to fair value, measured using the present value of the estimated future payments. Changes to the fair value are recorded through other income, net in the consolidated statement of operations. The following represent the contractual future payment obligations with the Financing Providers under the Consumer Financing Program that are components of the derivative:

The derivative is classified as a Level 3 instrument. The derivative positions are valued using a discounted cash flow model, with inputs consisting of available market data, such as market yield discount rates, as well as unobservable internally derived assumptions, such as collateral prepayment rates, collateral default rates and credit loss rates. In summary, the fair value represents an estimate of the present value of the cash flows Vivint Smart Home will be obligated to pay to the Financing Provider for each component of the derivative.

The following table summarizes the net notional volume buy/(sell) of NRG's open derivative transactions broken out by commodity, excluding those derivatives that qualified for the NPNS exception as of December 31, 2024 and 2023. Option contracts are reflected using delta volume. Delta volume equals the notional volume of an option adjusted for the probability that the option will be in-the-money at its expiration date.


		Total Volume (In millions)
Category	Units	December 31, 2024	December 31, 2023
Emissions	Short Ton	1	—
Renewables Energy Certificates	Certificates	13	12
Coal	Short Ton	10	9
Natural Gas	MMBtu	861	838

Power	MWh	91	201
Interest	Dollars	700	1,000

Foreign Exchange	Dollars	410	548
Consumer Financing Program	Dollars	1,219	1,116


	Fair Value
	Derivative Assets				Derivative Liabilities
(In millions)	December 31, 2024		December 31, 2023		December 31, 2024		December 31, 2023






Derivatives Not Designated as Cash Flow or Fair Value Hedges:
Interest rate contracts - current	$	—	$	12	$	3	$	—
Interest rate contracts - long-term	9		—		—		8
Foreign exchange contracts - current	15		3		—		4
Foreign exchange contracts - long-term	7		2		1		5
Commodity contracts- current	2,295		3,847		2,067		3,922
Commodity contracts- long-term	1,073		2,291		903		1,434
Consumer Financing Program - current	—		—		137		93
Consumer Financing Program - long-term	—		—		66		41

Derivatives Not Designated as Cash Flow or Fair Value Hedges	$	3,399	$	6,155	$	3,177	$	5,507
Deferred gains/losses on NPNS contracts - current	376		—		90		—
Deferred gains/losses on NPNS contracts - long-term	621		—		137		—
Deferred gains/losses on NPNS contracts(a)	$	997	$	—	$	227	$	—
Total Derivatives Not Designated as Cash Flow or Fair Value Hedges	$	4,396	$	6,155	$	3,404	$	5,507

(a)Balances related to certain derivative contracts that were previously accounted for as derivative contracts following the election of the NPNS exemption and the discontinuance of derivative accounting treatment as of the election date

The Company has elected to present derivative assets and liabilities on the balance sheet on a trade-by-trade basis and does not offset amounts at the counterparty master agreement level. In addition, collateral received or paid on the Company's derivative assets or liabilities are recorded on a separate line item on the balance sheet. The following table summarizes the offsetting derivatives by counterparty master agreement level and collateral received or paid:


	Gross Amounts Not Offset in the Statement of Financial Position
(In millions)	Gross Amounts of Recognized Assets/Liabilities		Derivative Instruments		Cash Collateral (Held)/Posted		Net Amount
As of December 31, 2024
Interest rate contracts:
Derivative assets	$	9	$	(3)	$	—	$	6
Derivative liabilities	(3)		3		—		—
Total interest rate contracts	6		—		—		6
Foreign exchange contracts:
Derivative assets	$	22	$	(1)	$	—	$	21
Derivative liabilities	(1)		1		—		—
Total foreign exchange contracts	$	21	$	—	$	—	$	21
Commodity contracts:
Derivative assets	$	4,365	$	(2,992)	$	(168)	$	1,205
Derivative liabilities	(3,197)		2,992		61		(144)
Total commodity contracts	$	1,168	$	—	$	(107)	$	1,061
Consumer Financing Program:
Derivative liabilities	$	(203)	$	—	$	—	$	(203)


Total derivative instruments	$	992	$	—	$	(107)	$	885


	Gross Amounts Not Offset in the Statement of Financial Position
(In millions)	Gross Amounts of Recognized Assets/Liabilities		Derivative Instruments		Cash Collateral (Held)/Posted		Net Amount
As of December 31, 2023
Interest rate contracts:
Derivative assets	$	12	$	(8)	$	—	$	4
Derivative liabilities	(8)		8		—		—
Total interest rate contracts	4		—		—		4
Foreign exchange contracts:
Derivative assets	$	5	$	(5)	$	—	$	—
Derivative liabilities	(9)		5		—		(4)
Total foreign exchange contracts	$	(4)	$	—	$	—	$	(4)
Commodity contracts:
Derivative assets	$	6,138	$	(4,926)	$	(74)	$	1,138
Derivative liabilities	(5,356)		4,926		145		(285)
Total commodity contracts	$	782	$	—	$	71	$	853
Consumer Financing Program:
Derivative liabilities	$	(134)	$	—	$	—	$	(134)


Total derivative instruments	$	648	$	—	$	71	$	719

The following tables summarize the pre-tax effects of economic hedges that have not been designated as cash flow hedges or fair value hedges and trading activity on the Company's statement of operations. The effect of foreign exchange and commodity hedges is included within revenues and cost of operations. The effect of the interest rate contracts is included within interest expense. The effect of the Consumer Financing Program is included in other income, net.


	Year Ended December 31,
(In millions)	2024		2023		2022
Unrealized mark-to-market results
Reversal of previously recognized unrealized losses/(gains) on settled positions related to economic hedges(a)	$	106	$	(1,734)	$	(1,232)
Reversal of acquired loss positions related to economic hedges	5		20		2
Net unrealized gains/(losses) on open positions related to economic hedges	95		(1,149)		2,478
Total unrealized mark-to-market gains/(losses) for economic hedging activities	206		(2,863)		1,248
Reversal of previously recognized unrealized (gains)/losses on settled positions related to trading activity	(1)		13		13


Net unrealized gains/(losses) on open positions related to trading activity	2		25		(17)
Total unrealized mark-to-market gains/(losses) for trading activity	1		38		(4)
Total unrealized gains/(losses) - commodities and foreign exchange	$	207	$	(2,825)	$	1,244

(a) December 31, 2024 balance includes $37 million related to derivative contracts that were elected as NPNS on October 1, 2024 and are no longer valued at fair value on a recurring basis


	Year Ended December 31,
(In millions)	2024		2023		2022
Total impact to statement of operations - interest rate contracts	$	3	$	4	$	—
Unrealized (losses)/gains included in revenues - commodities	$	(2)	$	182	$	(87)
Unrealized gains/(losses) included in cost of operations - commodities	186		(2,988)		1,315
Unrealized gains/(losses) included in cost of operations - foreign exchange	23		(19)		16
Total impact to statement of operations - commodities and foreign exchange	$	207	$	(2,825)	$	1,244
Total impact to statement of operations - Consumer Financing Program	$	(14)	$	(16)	$	—

The reversals of acquired loss/(gain) positions were valued based upon the forward prices on the acquisition date. The roll-off amounts were offset by realized gains or losses at the settled prices and are reflected in revenue or cost of operations during the same period.

The gains from open economic hedge positions of $95 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily the result of an increase in the value of forward positions as a result of increases in natural gas and power prices in the East.

The loss from open economic hedge positions of $1.1 billion for the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily the result of a decrease in the value of forward positions as a result of decreases in natural gas and power prices in the East and West.

The gains from open economic hedge positions of $2.5 billion for the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily the result of an increase in the value of forward positions as a result of increases in natural gas and power prices.

Certain of the Company's hedging and trading agreements contain provisions that entitle the counterparty to demand that the Company post additional collateral if the counterparty determines that there has been deterioration in the Company's credit quality, generally termed “adequate assurance” under the agreements, or require the Company to post additional collateral if there were a downgrade in the Company's credit rating. The collateral potentially required for contracts with adequate assurance clauses that are in net liability positions as of December 31, 2024 was $589 million. The Company is also a party to certain

marginable agreements under which it has a net liability position, but the counterparty has not called for the collateral due, which was approximately $54 million as of December 31, 2024. In the event of a downgrade in the Company's credit rating and if called for by the counterparty, $10 million of additional collateral would be required for all contracts with credit rating contingent features as of December 31, 2024.