Roger Miesen, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RWE Generation SE, has decided to end his career with RWE at the end of March and retire to private life. Born in the Netherlands, Miesen has been with RWE since 2009. He is a renowned energy expert who over the years has headed up the gas, hard-coal/biomass and hydro plants and has been responsible for the nuclear energy division. He took up the CEO position at RWE Generation in 2018. In recent years, Miesen has very consistently prepared RWE Generation’s international power plant portfolio for its step-by-step move towards net zero, in addition to ramping up the RWE Group’s hydrogen and utility-scale battery activities.
Nikolaus Valerius is to become the new CEO of RWE Generation. He has been a member of the RWE Generation Executive Board as Chief Operating Officer (COO) since June last year. From 2017 to 2023, Valerius was an Executive Board member at RWE Power, responsible for the company’s nuclear energy division. Before that, he worked for RWE in various leadership positions, including as Managing Director for all the company’s continental hard-coal/biomass and gas-fired power plants. Valerius has been with RWE since 1995.
Also on 1 April 2024, Marinus Tabak will replace Valerius as COO. The Dutchman has been a leader at RWE for many years and has a huge wealth of experience. He was the head of the RWE power station in Eemshaven in the Netherlands from 2017 to 2021. Since 2021 he has been Director Central Asset Management, driving forward standardisation and operational excellence across technologies and departments.
Now that RWE Generation’s Personnel Affairs Committee has decided on the changes at the top of the company, the next step will be the Supervisory Board’s approval at the end of February.