2008-07-14 23:40:07 -

www.reliant.com - Reliant Energy announced today that Jason Few is joining the company as senior vice president, Smart Energy.

In this position, Few will lead the company's initiative to launch a host of new products and services to provide customers with more control and better insight into how they use energy. Jason Few will begin service at Reliant on

July 14.

Few comes to Reliant from Motorola, Inc., where he served most recently as corporate vice president and general manager of its Companion Products division. Prior to joining Motorola, Few led SBC Communications' activities in broadband marketing, eBusiness development and the SBC Yahoo integration and business development activities. Jason serves on the Board of Directors for Syniverse Technologies (NYSE: SVR) and is on the governance and nomination committee and the audit committee.

"The goal of Smart Energy is to help our customers use less electricity, spend less, and reduce their environmental footprint by providing them with better information and more control," said Mark Jacobs, president and chief executive officer, Reliant Energy. "Jason's successful track record of bringing new technologies to market is the ideal background for the leader of this important effort."

Reliant Energy, Inc. (NYSE:RRI) based in Houston, Texas, provides electricity and energy services to retail and wholesale customers in the United States. In Texas, the company provides service to approximately 1.8 million retail electricity customers, including residential and small business customers and commercial, industrial, governmental and institutional customers. Reliant also serves commercial, industrial, governmental and institutional customers in the PJM (Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland), Illinois and New York markets.

The company is one of the largest independent power producers in the nation with approximately 16,000 megawatts of power generation capacity across the United States. These strategically located generating assets utilize natural gas, fuel oil and coal. For more information, visit www.reliant.com.

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