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NRG Reports New $1 Billion Incremental Term Loan Facility
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NRG Energy reported in an 8-K that on July 22, 2025, NRG Energy, Inc. (the “Company”), as borrower, and certain subsidiaries of the Company, as guarantors, entered into the Fifteenth Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Fifteenth Amendment”) with, among others, Citicorp North America, Inc., as administrative agent and as collateral agent (the “Agent”), and certain financial institutions, as lenders, which amended the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of June 30, 2016 (the “Credit Agreement”).
NRG reported that the Fifteenth Amendment amended the Credit Agreement by, among other things, adding a new incremental term loan B in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000 million (the “Incremental Term Loan B Facility” and the loans thereunder, the “Incremental Term Loans”), which Incremental Term Loan B Facility is fungible with the Company’s existing term loan B facility (the “Existing Term Loan B Facility”).
NRG reported that, at the Company’s election, the Incremental Term Loans will bear interest at a rate per annum equal to either: (1) a fluctuating rate equal to the highest of (A) the rate published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in effect on such day, plus 0.50%, (B) the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the United States and (C) a rate of one-month Term SOFR (as defined in the Credit Agreement) plus 1.00%, in each case, plus a margin of 0.75%, or (2) Term SOFR (as defined in the Credit Agreement) (which will not be less than 0.00%) for a one-, three-, six-month or twelve-month interest period (or such other period as agreed to by the Agent and the lenders, as selected by the Company), plus a margin of 1.75%.
NRG reported that the Incremental Term Loan B Facility is guaranteed by each of the Company’s subsidiaries that guarantee the Company’s revolving credit facility and Existing Term Loan B Facility and is secured on a first lien basis by substantially all of the Company’s and such subsidiaries’ assets, in each case, subject to certain customary exceptions and limitations set forth in the Credit Agreement.
NRG reported that the Incremental Term Loan B Facility has a final maturity date of April 16, 2031 and amortizes at a rate of 1% per annum in equal quarterly installments (subject to any adjustments to such amortization payments to ensure that such Incremental Term Loan B Facility is fungible for U.S. federal tax purposes with the Company’s Existing Term Loan B Facility).
NRG reported that, if an event of default occurs under the Incremental Term Loan B Facility, the entire principal amount outstanding thereunder, together with all accrued unpaid interest and other amounts owing in respect thereof, may be declared immediately due and payable, subject, in certain instances, to the expiration of applicable cure periods.
NRG reported that the Incremental Term Loan B Facility also provides for customary asset sale mandatory prepayments, reporting covenants and negative covenants governing dividends, investments, indebtedness, and other matters that are customary for similar term loan B facilities.
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July 25, 2025
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