NRG Energy, Inc.

Thank you for standing by, and welcome to NRG Energy, Inc.' 's fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. To remove yourself from the queue, you may press star 11 again. I would now like to hand the call over to Kevin Cole, Head of Treasury and Investor Relations, to read the safe harbor and introduce the call.

Thank you.

Good morning and welcome to NRG Energy's fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings guidance. This morning's call is being broadcast live, over the phone, and via webcast. The webcast and presentation An earnings release can be located in the investor section of our website at www.nrg.com under Presentations and Webcasts. Please note that today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements, which are based upon assumptions that we believe be reasonable as of this date. Actual results may differ materially. We urge everyone to review the safe harbor in today's presentation, as well as the risk factors in our SEC filings. We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of future events, except as required by law. In addition, we will refer to both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. For information regarding our non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, please refer to today's presentation and earnings release. And now with that, I'll now turn the call over to Larry Coben, NRG's Chair, President, and CEO.