Kevin McCullough

Kevin McCullough was appointed as Chief Operating Officer, RWE npower in March 2011. He is responsible for the Customer Services divisions of npower as well as overseeing RWE npower’s operational generation fleet and land bank from cradle to grave. Kevin also heads up Health and Safety for the whole organisation and is the lead interface with UK government on all matters relating to UK generation asset operations and development. In addition to this he is Chair of Horizon Nuclear Power – the joint venture established between RWE npower and E.ON to develop nuclear power generation in the UK. He has recently been appointed Chair of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Energy & Environment Sector Panel.
 
Kevin joined the CEGB in 1984 and held a number of operations and engineering positions at Ferrybridge, Drax and Staythorpe coal-fired power stations and Killingholme gas-fired power station, before being appointed Production Manager at Little Barford gas-fired power station in 1996.
 
In 1998 Kevin became Station Manager at the company’s Midlothian CCGT power station in Dallas, Texas and in 2000 took up the position of Executive Vice President at Innogy America LLC in Chicago.
 
Following a move back to the UK, Kevin was Head of Integration and Business Transformation within Retail before becoming Managing Director of npower renewables in 2003. He joined the board of RWE Innogy in 2007 as Chief Operating Officer, with pan-European responsibility for on- and off-shore wind power activities. He then joined the board of RWE npower as Chief Technical Officer on 1st October 2009 taking responsibility for the Assets Division of the business.