NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG)

Power and retail energy with smart home sales. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 26 of the 27 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 16,702 employees, 7,929 of them smart home direct sales and installation staff, so the energy segments take the remainder.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 19% now, 28% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 34% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 34% desk work, 19% people work and 47% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 65% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 28% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

16,702 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; about 4% of employees are under U.S. collective bargaining agreements.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, NRG and its consolidated subsidiaries had 16,702 employees, including 7,929 active smart home direct sales and installation individuals, which are largely seasonal.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 7,929 of 16,702 are smart home direct sales and installation individuals, largely seasonal; about 4% under U.S. collective bargaining agreements; 97% completed a midyear 2025 check-in; more than 1,400 in facilitated training sessions.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• The Southern Company (SO, 29,800 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• PG&E Corporation (PCG, 29,010 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028
• Duke Energy Corporation (DUK, 26,441 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• Exelon Corporation (EXC, 20,571 employees)22% now, 45% by 2028
• American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP, 17,581 employees)24% now, 50% by 2028
• NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE, 17,400 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028
• Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED, 15,407 employees)21% now, 42% by 2028
• Constellation Energy Corporation (CEG, 15,339 employees)21% now, 41% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

15 sentences in the filing name AI. Fifteen sentences: the smart home platform incorporates AI and machine learning in its operating system, data centers for AI are expected to drive a surge in electricity demand, and a risk factor says advances through AI may lower power production costs below the company's forecasts.

• “A smart home has multiple devices integrated into a single expandable platform that incorporates artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine-learning in its operating system, which allows customers to interact with and manage their home from anywhere via the Vivint app on their smart device.”
• “The electricity industry is expected to experience a surge in demand driven primarily by new manufacturing, industrial and data center facilities (including to support the expected increase in demand for AI and generative AI ("GenAI")).”
• “Advances in these or other technologies, including through AI, could reduce the costs of power production to a level below what the Company has currently forecasted, which could adversely affect its cash flows, results of operations or competitive position.”
• “Additionally, the rapid advancement and integration of AI and machine learning technologies present new and evolving risks.”
• “As a result, the Company could incur substantial losses in connection with a cybersecurity incident. 30 The Company's use of, or failure to effectively adopt, AI systems in its operations, services and products poses operational, competitive, cybersecurity, legal and compliance risks that could adversely affect the Company.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20233median 1
• Fiscal 202413median 4
• Fiscal 202515median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The smart home count (7,929) is a stated part; the energy segments take the remainder by subtraction, and the split between generation and retail inside it is not stated.
• The filing says the smart home sales and installation workforce is largely seasonal, so the year-end count moves with the season.
• The U.S. share is not stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001013871-26-000004, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.