David Crane is President and CEO of NRG Energy, a leading wholesale power generation company with facilities capable of generating nearly 24,000 megawatts of electricity—enough to power approximately 20 million homes. NRG's retail business, Reliant Energy, serves 1.6 million residential, business, commercial and industrial customers in Texas. Crane is a leading voice on climate change and the power sector’s role in reducing greenhouse gases from the next wave of new power generation while meeting growing energy needs. He is outspoken on the need to advance climate legislation and support clean energy resources and technologies critical to our transition to a low carbon society.