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Tool meets brokers’ needs by providing instant access to broad suite of competitively priced products

Houston; May 22, 2012—Busy commercial energy brokers now have a quick, convenient and powerful new way to tap into competitive pricing information for their clients with Reliant BrokerConnect®. The portal accommodates the specific needs of brokers and makes it easy to work smarter and sell faster by offering automated custom quotes on multiple products, instant contracts and credit checks that can be delivered in seconds.

“Reliant BrokerConnect is another way we make doing business with us easy and convenient,” said David Brast, Reliant Senior Vice President, Business Segments. “BrokerConnect users can have peace of mind knowing the tool provides full access in real time and is backed by the largest commercial energy provider in Texas. We designed BrokerConnect to meet the specific needs of our customers – so they can more readily meet the needs of their customers.”

In addition to receiving competitive pricing on a full suite of commercial energy products and services, Reliant BrokerConnect users can:

• Create proposals instantly with a helpful online pricing tool
• Receive automated custom quotes with unlimited real-time pricing, daily pricing updates on pending quotes, quick credit evaluation and contract generation in seconds
• Choose from a broad group of competitively priced products and services, with the flexibility to customize from a defined list of product features and services:
  • Fixed price
  • 100% real-time inde
  • Monthly gas inde
• Set broker fees for each unique product priced
• Customize future and stagger start dates for multi-location accounts

“Having the most well known supplier in Houston step up with the absolute best portal in ERCOT has made our job much easier,” said Daniel McCarthy, Simplified Power, Houston, TX. “The ability to obtain a price for our clients every morning is better for us and significantly better for our customers.”

Brokers can also manage their entire book of business with the online account management tool, which includes “My Dashboard,” for reviewing account information, recent activity and project earnings, and “My Quotes,” for locating and working signed and voided quotes. “My Quotes” also keeps customer information on file to reuse for unlimited quotes

The portal can be accessed by registered commercial brokers by visiting www.reliantbrokerconnect.com.

About Reliant
Reliant provides electricity, energy services and smart energy solutions to more than 1.5 million retail customers including homes, businesses, manufacturing facilities, government entities and institutions in Texas, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. As part of NRG (NYSE:NRG), Reliant is backed by a Fortune 500 company that is at the forefront of changing how people think about and use energy. NRG is a pioneer in developing cleaner and smarter energy choices for its customers and its diverse power generating facilities can support more than 20 million homes nationwide. For more information about Reliant products and services, visit www.reliant.com.

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