NRG Energy, Inc. has completed its previously announced strategic acquisitions of substantially all the assets of Edison Mission Energy (EME) and the competitive retail electricity business of Dominion Resources, Inc. for $2,635 million and $165 million, respectively, both excluding transaction adjustments for cash and working capital. With the closing of these two transactions, NRG advances its overall strategy of enhancing its generation fleet, expanding its retail business and growing its green portfolio.
Enhancing Generation
The addition of EME’s nearly 8,000 MW brings NRG’s total fleet to more than 53,000 MW of generating capacity – the second-largest in the US. The addition of EME’s wind capacity, combined with NRG’s existing wind and solar facilities, further diversifies the company’s renewable portfolio.
Expanding Retail
The acquisition of Dominion’s competitive retail electricity business will add, after customary transitions, more than 500,000 customer accounts to NRG’s retail footprint by the end of 2014, doubling NRG’s northeast retail presence across eight states and enhancing its leading position in Texas by adding the Cirro Energy franchise. The acquisition gives NRG a substantially larger customer platform in markets in which NRG is confident that it can enhance the depth and breadth of customer relationships through the deployment of customer-friendly services built around emerging energy technologies.
Growing Green
The closing of EME and Dominion’s retail electric business comes on the heels of NRG’s acquisition of Roof Diagnostics Solar (RDS), announced on March 27. NRG acquired RDS, one of largest solar sales and installation companies in America, to support the company’s strategy to empower its customers who want to control their own energy destiny through clean self-generation.
“Closing this trio of acquisitions in the past week materially enhances our capabilities and our economies of scale in all of our key business areas,” said David Crane, President and CEO of NRG. “By advancing across the full range of our overall company strategy, we are giving consumers greater access to clean energy and individual control over their energy future.”