Kevin Howell

June 30, 2005--NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) announced that Kevin T. Howell will join the Company as Executive Vice President, Commercial Operations on August 1. Howell will lead NRG's multi-commodity commercial operations function- including the fuel and emissions procurement and trading, power trading and marketing, and structure and analysis groups. Since 2001, Howell served as President of Dominion Energy Clearinghouse, the organization responsible for asset monetization across Dominion's exploration and production, generation, transmission and delivery companies. Prior to his work at Dominion, he led various functions within Duke Energy Merchants, Duke Energy International and Duke Energy Trading and Marketing. His last position with Duke was Executive Vice President of Duke Energy Merchants where he managed a global trading group dealing in refined products, LNG and coal. Prior to his five years at Duke, Howell worked in a variety of trading, marketing and operations functions at MG Natural Gas Corp., Associated Natural Gas and Panhandle Eastern Pipeline.