The move is part of its broader plans to restructure and improve the company’s financial position.
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The separation of many of NRG’s remaining renewable-energy enterprises from its conventional power business follows its creation of NRG Yield Inc., a publicly traded company to which NRG transferred some of its utility-scale wind and solar holdings in 2013.
Crane said NRG is seeking a business partner to enhance the new green company with funding as either a majority or minority owner. Once known for coal and nuclear generation, it has become a leader in the development of renewable power ranging from very big wind farms to rooftop solar panels on individual suburban homes. For this reason, NRG has now separated both businesses. NRG’s yieldco, NRG Yield Inc. In September 2014, the Company acquired Goal Zero, bringing growing consumer products company and its suite of personal solar devices into NRG family. It now owns the nation’s biggest fleet of power generation stations.
Through those sales and additional cost cutting, the plan is to allocate more than $1 billion to debt reduction and share repurchases through 2016, he said. (NYSE:NYLD) to raise debt and equity. With its shares slumping, he said the yieldco is unlikely to sell more stock before 2019 but he said it will be able to increase its dividend by a promised 15% compound annual rate through 2018. On Friday, NRG Yield announced that it will acquire 75% stake in NRG’s wind projects. It expects assets to generate about $21 million of cash available for distribution and $41 million of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA).
The company also reiterated its forecast for the third quarter and full year 2015. These are one year projections based on the research brokerages covering the stock polled by Zack’s Research. It also indicates that the company is mulling retiring Units 2, 3, and 4 at the Dunkirk plant in New York instead of refueling them to natural gas as was planned.
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