SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Cox Heather (Last) (First) (Middle) NRG ENERGY, INC. 804 CARNEGIE CENTER (Street) PRINCETON NJ 08540 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 03/06/2018	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol NRG ENERGY, INC. [ NRG ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

Remarks:

No securities are beneficially owned.

No securities are beneficially owned.

	/s/ Brian Curci, by Power of Attorney	03/16/2018
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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March 6, 2018
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS,
that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints each
of Brian E Curci and Christine
A Zoino to i execute for and on
behalf of the undersigned, in
the undersigned's capacity as
an officer and or director and
or owner of greater than 10 percent
of the outstanding Common Stock of
NRG Energy Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the Company), Forms 3,4,and 5 in
accordance with Section 16a of the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
and the rules thereunder; ii do and
perform any and all acts for and
on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to
complete and execute any such Forms
3,4, or 5 and timely file such
form with the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority,
including the New York Stock Exchange;
and iii take any othher action of
any type whatsoever in connection
with the foregoing which, in the
opinion of such attorney in fact,
may be of the benefit to, in the
best interest of, or legally required
by the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such
attorney in fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of
Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as
such attorney in fact may approve in
such attorney in fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to such
attorney in fact full power and authority
to do and perform any and every act and
thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or
proper to be done in the exercise of any of
the rights and powers herein granted, as
fully to all intents and purposes as
the undersigned might or could do if
personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney in fact's substitute or substitutes,
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue of this power of attorney and the
rights and powers herein granted.  Each
of the undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys in fact, in serving in
such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the
Company assuming, any of the undersigned's
responsibilities to comply with Section 16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in
full force and effect until the undersigned
is no longer required to file Forms 3,4, and
5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings
of and transactions in securities issued by
the Company, unless earlier revoked by each
of the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the foregoing attorneys in fact.

Print Name: Heather Cox
Signature: s Heather Cox