# NRG Energy, Inc (NRG) FY2026 YTD Q2 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: NRG Energy, Inc (NRG)
- Period: 2026-01-01 to 2026-06-30
- Filing: Q2 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-08-04, accession number 0001013871-26-000020
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/nrg/fy2026-ytd-q2-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/nrg-fy2026-ytd-q2-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jan 1, 2026 through Jun 30, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations. Beginning cash: Dec 31, 2025. Ending cash: Jun 30, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Dec 31, 2025**: 4,998,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Operating activities**: 948,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Net income**: 631,000,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation of property, plant and equipment and amortization of customer relationships and other intangible assets**: 602,000,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of capitalized contract costs**: 324,000,000 US dollars
- **Accretion of asset retirement obligations**: 17,000,000 US dollars
- **Provision for credit losses**: 104,000,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of financing costs and debt discounts/premiums**: 10,000,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of in-the-money contracts and emissions allowances**: 47,000,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of unearned equity compensation**: 72,000,000 US dollars
- **Net (gain)/loss on sale of assets and disposal of assets**: negative 38,000,000 US dollars
- **Gain on proceeds from insurance recoveries for Property, plant and equipment, net**: 0 US dollars
- **Changes in derivative instruments**: negative 61,000,000 US dollars
- **Changes in current and deferred income taxes and liability for uncertain tax benefits**: negative 33,000,000 US dollars
- **Changes in collateral deposits in support of risk management activities**: 14,000,000 US dollars
- **Accounts receivable, net**: 910,000,000 US dollars
- **Inventory**: negative 156,000,000 US dollars
- **Prepayments and other current assets**: negative 441,000,000 US dollars
- **Accounts payable**: negative 780,000,000 US dollars
- **Accrued expenses and other current liabilities**: negative 164,000,000 US dollars
- **Other assets and liabilities**: negative 119,000,000 US dollars
- **Loss on debt extinguishment**: 9,000,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 7,709,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Payments for acquisitions of businesses and assets, net of cash acquired**: negative 7,101,000,000 US dollars
- **Capital expenditures**: negative 655,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from sales of assets, net**: 44,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of emissions allowances**: negative 41,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from insurance recoveries for Property, plant and equipment, net**: 0 US dollars
- **Sales of emissions allowances**: 44,000,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: 2,140,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Equivalent shares purchased in lieu of tax withholdings**: negative 99,000,000 US dollars
- **Payments for share repurchase activity and excise tax**: negative 931,000,000 US dollars
- **Payments of dividends to preferred and common stockholders**: negative 235,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt**: 3,652,000,000 US dollars
- **Net receipts from settlement of acquired derivatives that include financing elements**: 16,000,000 US dollars
- **Repayments of long-term debt and finance leases**: negative 1,619,000,000 US dollars
- **Repayments to credit facilities**: negative 7,226,000,000 US dollars
- **Payments of deferred financing costs**: negative 84,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from credit facilities**: 8,675,000,000 US dollars
- **Payments for debt extinguishment costs**: negative 9,000,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 2,109,000,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **financing gross reconciliation**: 12,343,000,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **investing gross reconciliation**: 7,797,000,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: 2,000,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Jun 30, 2026**: 379,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Cash sources and uses**: 8,088,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 4,619,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 1.50×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- **Operating cash flow**: 948,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 655,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 293,000,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

### Chart connections

- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income enters operating cash directly in the reconciliation. The adjustment junction contributes the remaining $317.00M after reconciling the other positive and negative adjustments. These connections depict an accounting reconciliation, not traced cash receipts.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: 948,000,000 US dollars minus 655,000,000 US dollars equals 293,000,000 US dollars.