---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-032407"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NRG"
cik: "0001013871"
company_name: "NRG ENERGY, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T19:19:35.103855+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# NRG Consumer President Rasesh Patel to retire May 19; successor expected in Q2 2025

## Summary
- Rasesh Patel, President of NRG Consumer, will retire effective May 19, 2025, and remain in an advisory role to ensure a seamless transition.
- Patel joined NRG in March 2023 via the Vivint Smart Home acquisition and expanded to lead all Consumer businesses in March 2024.
- NRG has launched a search for Patel's successor and expects to name a replacement by the end of the second quarter of 2025.
- Under Patel's leadership, NRG integrated Vivint and home energy platforms and launched the first residential virtual power plant (VPP) offering.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-032407
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NRG
- cik: 0001013871
- company_name: NRG ENERGY, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013871/000110465925032407/0001104659-25-032407-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013871/000110465925032407/tm2511617d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-032407.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Rasesh Patel retired as Executive Vice President, NRG Consumer at NRG ENERGY, INC..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Executive Vice President, NRG Consumer
  source text: On April 7, 2025, NRG Energy, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing that Rasesh Patel, Executive Vice President, NRG Consumer, has notified the Company of his retirement from the Company, effective May 19, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013871/000110465925032407/0001104659-25-032407-index.htm

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