- Business
- RWE AG (RWE.WA), a leading international energy company headquartered in Essen, Germany and founded in 1898, generates and trades electricity from renewable and conventional sources across Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. The company operates through key segments including Offshore Wind; Onshore Wind/Solar; Flexible Generation comprising hydro, biomass and gas; Supply & Trading; and Phaseout Technologies such as lignite mining, nuclear and coal; it offers offshore and onshore wind power, solar energy, hydropower, biomass, gas-fired electricity generation, battery storage, lignite mining and refining, emissions trading, green electricity contracts, energy commodities trading, gas storage operations and project management and engineering services via subsidiaries like RWE Renewables Europe & Australia GmbH, RWE Offshore Wind GmbH, RWE Clean Energy LLC, RWE Generation SE, RWE Power AG and RWE Supply & Trading GmbH. RWE serves commercial, industrial and municipal customers with a portfolio exceeding 38 GW of renewables, batteries and flexible generation capacity. In recent developments, RWE successfully closed a partnership transaction with Apollo Global Management in November 2025, establishing a joint venture over its 25.1% stake in German transmission system operator Amprion and securing €3.2 billion in equity for grid expansion investments; the company commissioned 2.1 GW of new capacity since June 2024 including 700 MW in the first half of 2025, plans €55 billion in net investments through 2030 to expand green capacity to over 65 GW, announced a £200 million investment in its largest UK battery energy storage facility in December 2025 and entered a strategic alliance with TotalEnergies in October 2024 for 50% stakes in two North Sea offshore wind projects.