NRG Energy, Inc.

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the NRG Energy Second Quarter earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be the question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you need to press star one one on your telephone keypad. You will hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw a question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that this conference is being recorded. I will now like to hand the conference over to our first speaker today, Braden Mulhern, head of Invest Relations. Dear sir, please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning and welcome

to NRG Energy Second Quarter 2025 earnings call. This morning's call is being broadcast live over the phone and via webcast. The webcast presentation and earnings release can be located in the investor section of our website at .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 to be reasonable as of this date. Actual results may differ materially. We urge everyone to review the safe harbor today's presentation, as well as the risk factors in our FCC file. We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of future events, except as required by law. In addition, we're referred to both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. For information regarding our non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, please refer to today's presentation and earnings release. With that, I will now turn it over to Larry Koeben, NRG's chair, president, and chief and executive officer.