Annual General Meeting of RWE AG approves dividend of €1.20 per share for the 2025 financial year

• Dividend to be paid on 6 May 2026
• Both the Executive Board and Supervisory Board discharged by a large majority; all proposed resolutions adopted by a large majority

Today’s Annual General Meeting of RWE AG took place as a virtual event in Essen. The shareholders approved the proposal of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board to pay a dividend of €1.20 per share for the 2025 financial year by a large majority. This corresponds to an increase of €0.10 compared to the previous year and marks the third consecutive dividend increase. The payment will be made on 6 May 2026. For the coming years, the dividend is to increase by 10% annually. 

The shareholders also approved the other agenda items by a large majority. These included discharging of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board, appointing the auditor, approving the remuneration report, and renewing the authorisation to buy back own shares. 

The term of office of the ten employee representatives on the Supervisory Board ended at the end of today’s Annual General Meeting. On 26 March 2026, Gordon Dreyer, Daniel Kober, Andrea Rodemann and Christoph Schmitz-Dethlefsen were elected as new employee representative Supervisory Board members at the Delegates’ Meeting. Sandra Bossemeyer, Matthias Dürbaum, Reiner van Limbeck, Dagmar Paasch, Dirk Schumacher, and Michael Vassiliadis were elected to the Supervisory Board for a renewed term of office. Following the Annual General Meeting, Michael Vassiliadis was re-elected Deputy Chairman.

The Annual General Meeting was broadcast in full on the company’s website. All registered shareholders were able to speak live and ask questions during the Annual General Meeting. In total, the votes of approximately 438 million shares were represented. This corresponds to 58.90% of the share capital entitled to vote (previous year: 53.66%). An overview of all voting results on all agenda items is available online. A recording of the AGM without the general debate will also be available on the RWE website in due course.

Note to editors

All information on the event is available at RWE Annual General Meeting 2026:

• Invitation and Documents relating to the agenda and countermotions
• Recording of speeches of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board 
• Text of the speeches by the Chairman of the Executive Board and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board
• Voting results on the respective agenda items.

Pictures of the Annual General Meeting (credit: RWE) can be downloaded from the RWE Media Library. Up-to-date video footage is also available there.