EXHIBIT 99.2


               STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
              AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND
                 CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Mark M. Jacobs, state and attest that:

(1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of
Reliant Energy, Incorporated (the "Company"), and, except as corrected or
supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of
     the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on
     Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was
     filed); and

o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the
     statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which
     they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such
     report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
     materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit
committee.

(3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before
the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

o    the amended Annual Report on Form 10-K of Reliant Energy, Incorporated for
     the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001, as amended by the Annual Report on
     Form 10-K/A (Amendment No. 1) of Reliant Energy, Incorporated for the
     fiscal year ended December 31, 2001, as filed on July 5, 2002;

o    all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy
     materials of Reliant Energy, Incorporated filed with the Commission
     subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.

                                              Subscribed and sworn to before me
/s/ Mark M. Jacobs                            this fourteenth day of August 2002
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Mark M. Jacobs
Executive Vice President and                  /s/ Debra C. Arcy
Chief Financial Officer                           -------------
August 14, 2002                               Notary Public
                                              My Commission Expires:
                                                       11/14/2004
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