Those assets include 30 wind projects in 11 states totaling about 1.73GW in generation capacity, plus 4.3GW of coal-fired power plants.
NRG Energy will pay $2.635bn for the assets under the plan approved by the US Bankruptcy Court in Chicago.
On 1 January 2013, EME ranked eighth among wind capacity owners in the US behind NextEra Energy Resources, Iberdrola Renewables, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, EDPR, E.ON
