Clearway Energy宣布CFO及高级财务管理层调整，未改变经营指引或资本回报政策

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PRINCETON, N.J.
,
Sept. 08, 2026
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Clearway Energy
, Inc. (NYSE: CWEN) (“Company”, “Clearway”) today announced a series of senior leadership appointments:
Sarah Rubenstein
,
Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of
Clearway Energy, Inc.
, will move into a new role at Clearway Energy Group LLC (“Clearway Group”) as the Head of the Transformation Office focusing on digital and data transformation and integration activities, effective October 1, 2026.
Steven Ryder
,
will succeed
Ms. Rubenstein
as Clearway Energy, Inc.’s CFO effective
October 1, 2026
, and will maintain his role as CFO of
Clearway Group
; and
Samantha Prout
,
will join the Company as Senior Vice President, Accounting and Controller, effective immediately.
“Sarah's leadership has been integral to building the strong financial foundation Clearway stands on today, and I am excited to see her bring that same expertise to leading our Transformation Office. We see opportunities to accelerate operational efficiencies by deploying the kind of automation and AI technologies that our generation assets are powering. Sarah’s transition to this role is an expression of our confidence in the potential enhancements these technologies will provide to our business. Further, our public investors know Steve well, and he is ideally positioned to build on Sarah's success in his expanded CFO role. He brings close to 30 years of professional finance experience, with most of that spent with energy companies focused on renewables and conventional power. Lastly, I'm excited to further strengthen our accounting team with the addition of Samantha, a proven accounting leader with decades of experience in public accounting. These changes, collectively, position our company very well to continue delivering on the long-term growth trajectory for CWEN,” said
Craig Cornelius
, Chief Executive Officer of
Clearway Energy, Inc.
Sarah Rubenstein
“In this new role, I am excited to help translate our business strategy and leadership priorities into exciting new programs that improve efficiency and scalability across our organization. Building upon the work we did to modernize and streamline our integrated enterprise business applications, I am looking forward to continuing the work to transform how we support our data-driven operations through further use of AI and automation, and to continue to incorporate these initiatives into the fabric of our organization,” said
Sarah Rubenstein
, Chief Financial Officer of
Clearway Energy, Inc.
Steven Ryder
“I’m both excited and honored to assume this expansion of my role, and I intend to continue the impressive legacy of financial discipline and stewardship that Sarah has brought to the position. The Clearway enterprise has a talented group of professionals that support both
Clearway Energy, Inc.
and
Clearway Group
, and I look forward to continuing my work with Craig and our executive team to advance our enterprise as a leader in the development, ownership, and operation of clean energy infrastructure, sustaining and creating value for CWEN shareholders,” said
Steve Ryder
, Chief Financial Officer,
Clearway Energy Group
.
As CFO of
Clearway Group
,
Mr. Ryder
has spent the last eight years leading many of the enterprise’s finance functions, including corporate finance, risk, financial planning and analysis, and capital markets. Prior to Clearway,
Mr. Ryder
was the Chief Financial Officer for
Invenergy LLC
, a
Chicago
-based developer, owner, and operator of clean energy projects where he oversaw a broad range of financial and commercial functions and was responsible for numerous corporate and project financing capital raises in
North America
and
Europe
. Prior to
Invenergy
,
Mr. Ryder
served in several finance and technical capacities at
GE Energy Financial Services
, the
International Finance Corporation
, the
U.S. Agency for International Development
, and AT&T.
Samantha Prout
Ms. Prout
most recently served as Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Amicus Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FOLD), a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, where she also served as principal accounting officer and oversaw financial reporting, SOX compliance, audit committee engagement, enterprise resource planning implementation, and continuous improvement initiatives for the publicly traded biopharmaceutical company since 2018. Prior to Amicus, she held accounting leadership roles at NRG Energy, Inc., the Company’s prior controlling shareholder, from 2015 to 2018, where she developed deep familiarity with the financial reporting and accounting functions of a major public energy company, and the Company. She began her career at
KPMG LLP
, where she spent 15 years building extensive audit and advisory expertise, including significant experience with
SEC
reporting and capital markets transactions.
About Clearway Energy, Inc.
Clearway Energy, Inc. is one of the largest owners of clean energy generation assets in the U.S. Our portfolio comprises approximately 13.9 GW of gross capacity in 27 states, including approximately 11.1 GW of wind, solar and battery energy storage systems and approximately 2.8 GW of flexible dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. Through our diversified and primarily contracted clean energy portfolio, Clearway Energy endeavors to provide its investors with stable and growing dividend income. Clearway Energy, Inc.’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CWEN. Clearway Energy, Inc. is sponsored by its controlling investor, Clearway Energy Group LLC. For more information, visit investor.clearwayenergy.com.
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.  In addition, the Company makes available free of charge at
www.clearwayenergy.com
, copies of materials it files with, or furnishes to, the SEC.
Contacts:
Investors:
Media:
Akil Marsh
Zadie Oleksiw
investor.relations@clearwayenergy.com
media@clearwayenergy.com
609-608-1500
Source: Clearway Energy, Inc