Reliant Energy Retail Holding, LLC is an American energy company based in Houston , Texas. It serves the state of Texas .
8-546: 1000 Main , formerly Reliant Energy Plaza , is a 518-foot (158 m) tall skyscraper in Downtown Houston , Texas managed by Transwestern . It houses the headquarters of GenOn Energy , and the building has around 800,000 square feet (74,000 m) of space. 1000 Main was constructed from 2001 to 2003 and has 36 floors. It is the 25th tallest building in Houston. It is made out of glass, steel, and concrete. Lights atop
16-549: A building or structure in Texas is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Reliant Energy Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Reliant Energy, a subsidiary of NRG Energy , is one of the largest Texas electricity providers serving over 1.5 million Texans. Reliant provides over 23 million megawatts of power annually to residential and business customers. Reliant Energy was founded in 2000. In June 2009, NRG Energy purchased Reliant Energy's retail electricity business. At
24-714: A non-discriminatory basis. Following the deregulation of the market, Reliant Energy began competing with other large energy companies in the state, including Direct Energy and TXU Corporation . Reliant Energy offers service to some of the largest cities in Texas including the Dallas/Fort Worth area in northeastern Texas, Houston and surrounding cities on the Gulf of Mexico including Corpus Christi and Galveston, and as far west as Midland. Reliant Energy provides solar and wind turbine renewable energy options for its customers. The renewable energy options are only available in areas where
32-577: A suite of Smart Grid products for upgrades of the nation’s electricity grid. Over the last six months of 2017, the Public Utility Commission of Texas received a total of 118 complaints against Reliant including 22 slamming, and 2 cramming violations. Reliant Energy has received a C rating from the Better Business Bureau. The BBB reports 240 complaints against the company in the last 3 years. On January 1, 2002, Texas deregulated
40-468: The Reliant Energy Plaza. In 2003 Reliant Energy occupied more than 500,000 square feet (46,000 m) of space in the building. During the same year two subsidiaries of Marsh & McLennan Companies , Marsh USA and Mercer Human Resource Consulting, had a combined 105,000 square feet (9,800 m) of space in the building. The Reliant Energy Plaza was 86% leased in 2003. This article about
48-467: The building and on the main street side flash in patterns of various colors at night. This building occupies the site where the Lamar Hotel stood before it was demolished in 1985. A two-level trading floor with 30 ft high ceilings, currently leased by the trading arm of Shell plc , is located on the 10th and 11th floors. It is squeezed between the garage and the office tower. Century development built
56-509: The electricity industry and now there are 116 retail electric providers (REPs) currently doing business in the state. Texas is one of 18 states that offers some level of deregulated electricity, with the state having the largest percentage (approximately 85%) of residents who are able to choose their service provider. With deregulation the transmission and distribution of the electricity is handled by Transmission and Distribution Utilities (TDUs) that must offer access to their wires to all REPs on
64-464: The time, Reliant had 1.8 million customers and was the second largest electric provider in Texas. The name Reliant Energy was retained and the surviving wholesale business was renamed RRI Energy , which was retired in 2012 after additional NRG acquisitions. In 2010, Reliant Energy received a $ 20 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the DOE’s Recovery Act activities to fund
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