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Earlier this week, GE Vernova released its 2024 Sustainability Report. We encourage you to review the materials on GE Vernova’s dedicated Sustainability website.

Key highlights from our 2024 Sustainability Report:

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GE Vernova signs agreement to supply 73 MW Kosovo onshore wind project

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  • GE Vernova will provide 12 turbines to Çalık Renewables for the developer’s first project in Kosovo

  • Project will use GE Vernova’s 6.1 MW-158m workhorse turbines

  • Deal reinforces strong presence of GE Vernova in Kosovo, adding to its 36 onshore wind turbines already in operation there

SALZBERGEN, Germany (June 18, 2025) - GE Vernova announced today that it has signed an agreement to supply, service, and commission 12 of its 6.1 MW-158m onshore wind workhorse turbines for Çalık Renewables’s Zatriq I & II Wind Farms. The deal, which was booked in the first quarter of 2025, will enable both companies to support Kosovo in its goal of adding significantly more renewable energy by 2030.

Initial deliveries for the project are scheduled from the end of 2025 through the beginning of 2026, and the project is expected to achieve full operation by the second half of next year. When completed, the project is expected to provide enough energy to power the equivalent of approximately 32,000 households.

Gilan Sabatier, Chief Commercial Officer for GE Vernova’s Onshore Wind business in International Markets, said, “We are pleased to work with Çalık Renewables and Çalık Enerji to bring more wind power online in Kosovo. GE Vernova’s Gas Power business has served them for years, and we are pleased to build on that relationship by providing wind turbines as well. As such this deal highlights how GE Vernova’s broad portfolio of energy solutions can help our customers drive electrification and decarbonization.”

"Kosovo marks a significant milestone in Europe, as we take our first step beyond Türkiye," said Emre Erdogan General Manager of Çalık Renewables. "This investment reflects our long-term commitment to sustainability and our vision to become an important player in Europe’s renewable energy sector. We are pleased to continue our strong collaboration with GE Vernova, particularly as we advance our efforts in renewable energy investments"

GE Vernova's Onshore wind business has a total installed base of approximately 57,000 turbines and nearly 120 GW of installed capacity worldwide. Committed to its customers' success for more than two decades, its product portfolio offers the next-generation high-powered turbines at scale that drives decarbonization through high-quality, affordable, and sustainable renewable energy.

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*Note to Editors: GE’s 6.1 MW turbine with a 158-meter rotor is what we refer to as the 6.1 MW-158m.

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About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world. Supported by the Company’s purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology helps deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

GE Vernova’s Wind segment is focused on delivering a suite of wind products and services to help accelerate a new era of energy by harnessing the power of wind. Technologies provided to customers include the next generation high efficiency 3-megawatt onshore wind turbine and the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine platform, as well as maintenance solutions and life extension optionality.

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This document contains forward-looking statements – that is, statements related to future events that by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. These forward-looking statements often address GE Vernova’s expected future business and financial performance and financial condition, and the expected performance of its products, the impact of its services and the results they may generate or produce, and often contain words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “seek,” “see,” “will,” “would,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “target,” “preliminary,” or “range.” Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain, such as statements about planned and potential transactions, investments or projects and their expected results and the impacts of macroeconomic and market conditions and volatility on the Company’s business operations, financial results and financial position and on the global supply chain and world economy.

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GE Vernova releases 2024 Sustainability Report

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  • Announced new power generating capacity goal of 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, as well as goal to add 30% of it in developing or emerging economies.

  • Added new goal to train 30,000 students and learners through workforce development and training programs by 2030.

  • Key metrics from 2024 include bringing 31 GW of new power generating capacity online, energizing 71 GW of new power transformers, reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions (market-based) by 51% since 2019, and bringing energy to the grid with an estimated carbon intensity ~20% below the global average.

  • Central themes of the Report include GE Vernova’s manufacturing of innovative technology and an optimistic commitment to developing future energy talent.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (June 17, 2025) – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today released its 2024 Sustainability Report highlighting the company’s successful sustainability performance. The report explores GE Vernova’s commitment to building a more sustainable electric power system by presenting progress made on each of the leading goals established in its Sustainability Framework launched last year.

The company also announced three new goals aimed at helping to support the growing global demand for electricity: to bring a total of 150 gigawatts (GW) of new power generating capacity online between 2024 and 2030, adding 30% of new power generation capacity and grid enabling capacity in developing or emerging economies, and to reach 30,000 students and learners through workforce development and training programs by 2030.

“The world needs more electricity and smarter electricity. We are entering an era where electrons are the foundation for growth, prosperity, and security, and our Sustainability Report maps the progress GE Vernova is making to meet this opportunity,” said Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova. “This year’s report is our strongest proof point on how we are working to deliver on our mission to electrify and decarbonize the world together with our customers, our collaborators, and the communities where we operate, and we are just getting started.”

GE Vernova’s Sustainability Framework comprises four pillars – Electrify, Decarbonize, Conserve, and Thrive – each with leading goals that are core to the company’s sustainability programs, helping align its business performance with non-financial impacts.

Some key highlights from the 2024 Sustainability Report include:

  • Electrify:
    • Brought an additional 31 GW of new power generating capacity online, more than the entire generating capacity of the U.S. state of Virginia, with 62% in developing and emerging economies.
    • Energized 71 GW of new power transformers, enabling new transmission capacity equivalent to the installed generating capacity of South Africa, with 34% in developing and emerging economies.
    • Announced three new goals: adding 150 GW of new power generating capacity by 2030, ensuring that 30% of new capacity added each year is in emerging and developing economies (as defined by the International Monetary Fund), and training 30,000 students and learners through workforce development programs by 2030.
    • Bringing a total of 150 GW of new power generating capacity online between 2024 and 2030, adding 30% of new power generation capacity and grid enabling capacity in developing or emerging economies; and reaching 30,000 students and learners through workforce development and training programs by 2030.
  • Decarbonize:
    • Earned estimated carbon intensity ~20% below the global average of the existing grid for new generating capacity, avoiding ~27 million metric tons CO2 emissions in first full year of operations for new generating capacity, equivalent to 6.3 million gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year.
    • Reiterated its ambition to deploy and commercialize breakthrough technologies –hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, direct air capture, small modular reactors– to make progress toward net zero Scope 3 emissions from use of sold products by 2050.
  • Conserve:
    • Reduced operational Scope 1 & 2 emissions (market-based) by 51% since 2019, achieved through improvements in internal processes across energy efficiency, SF6 reduction, and through purchasing renewable electricity and energy attribute certificates (EACs).
    • Announced a 38% coverage of its top products under the company’s 4R circularity framework.
  • Thrive:
    • Released the first company-wide Human Rights Report and conducted 576 new supplier audits, with 559 suppliers approved and 17 suppliers rejected.
    • Donated over 23,000 GE Vernova employee volunteer hours, with nearly 1,300 global charities supported by the GE Vernova Foundation.
    • Facilitated over 9,300 student interactions through its Next Engineers program, donated 4,000+ hours by GE Vernova volunteers, with ~90% of Engineering Academy graduates going on to pursue engineering in higher education or through industry apprenticeships.
GE Vernova's 2024 Sustainability Performance


“I’m proud of our sustainability performance that follows through on our commitment to be a force for good for our investors and for the planet, people, and communities,” said Roger Martella, GE Vernova’s Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer. “GE Vernova’s manufacturing strength and our employees who drive it position us uniquely to building some of the most complex equipment the planet needs.”

Apart from the new announced goals, GE Vernova’s latest sustainability report highlights new sections including the company’s commitment to the next generation of energy leaders, its efforts in driving energy sector innovation to power artificial intelligence and data centers, as well as its new Product Life Cycle Compliance (PLCC) program designed to scan, track, assess, and implement current and future product compliance regulations. The company also obtained external, third-party limited assurance on Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 use of sold products emissions to strengthen the foundation of GE Vernova's sustainability reporting and decarbonization strategy.

For more information, visit gevernova.com/sustainability and read the full 2024 Sustainability Report and the Executive Summary.

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This document contains forward-looking statements – that is, statements related to future events that by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain, such as statements about such as our expectations regarding electrification and decarbonization and the role that we and our products and services can play in such electrification and decarbonization. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. These risks, uncertainties, and factors include those discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025, including in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation" sections included therein, as may be updated from time to time in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as posted on our website at www.gevernova.com/investors/fls. GE Vernova does not undertake any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements except as required by law or regulation.

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About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world. Supported by the Company’s purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology helps deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

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GE Vernova-Larsen & Toubro consortium to build advanced National System Control Center (NSCC) for KETRACO in Kenya

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  • New centers being built at Embakasi and Suswa with advanced grid technology for efficient electricity transmission.

  • GE Vernova to provide advanced grid technology and software, with Larsen & Toubro handling all civil works.

  • Project financed by France through the French Development Agency and the French Treasury.

NAIROBI, Kenya (June 11, 2025) – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE:GEV) today announced that the GE Vernova-Larsen & Toubro (L&T) consortium will build an advanced National System Control Center (NSCC) for Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO) to monitor and manage Kenya’s national electricity grid. The work will include constructing a Main Control Centre building in Embakasi, equipped with advanced grid software solutions and the latest substation automation, monitoring, and communication equipment. Additionally, an Emergency Control Centre building in Suswa will be constructed, featuring the same systems and an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system for transmission operations. GE Vernova booked the order in the first quarter of 2025.

Kenya's Electricity Goals
Kenya has set ambitious electricity goals aimed at achieving universal access and transitioning to a sustainable energy future. The country aims to ensure that 100% of its population has access to reliable and affordable electricity by 2030. To achieve this, Kenya is investing heavily in expanding its electricity grid and enhancing generation capacity. Additionally, Kenya is focusing on enhancing energy efficiency and developing smart grid technologies to optimize electricity transmission, distribution and consumption.

“A new, advanced NSCC is essential for managing increased electricity demand as Kenya's economy grows. When commissioned, the new NSCC system would play a critical role in supporting our mandate as System Operator(SO). It will ensure reliable, secure, and efficient electricity transmission across the country. It is a game-changer for Kenya’s electricity transmission capabilities, significantly improving our ability to manage the grid, enhance the quality of power, and integrate renewable energy sources,” said Dr. Eng. John Mativo, MBS, Managing Director and CEO at KETRACO.

Consortium Roles and Responsibilities
GE Vernova, through its French entity Grid Solutions SAS, will lead the consortium and provide advanced grid technology from its Electrification Software and Grid Automation portfolio. This technology includes two solutions from its GridOS® orchestration software portfolio—Advanced Energy Management Systems (AEMS) and Wide Area Management Systems (WAMS)—Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM), and several solutions from its grid automation portfolio - GridBeats™ - Asset Performance Management System (APM), Condition Monitoring devices, Substation Automation Systems, and Telecommunication Systems. Larsen & Toubro will handle all civil works, including the construction of two fully equipped greenfield control center buildings, equipment installation, and support for system configuration, testing, and commissioning. The project is expected to be completed within three years.

“GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to handle projects of this scale and complexity, requiring both advanced software solutions and grid automation equipment, as well as unique financing solutions. With our comprehensive capabilities in managing such projects end-to-end, we believe KETRACO will significantly benefit from GE Vernova’s expertise, ensuring seamless integration and operational efficiency from project inception to completion,” said Philippe Piron, CEO of GE Vernova’s Electrification Systems businesses. “By providing Kenya with an advanced electricity control center, we’re aiming to enhance the reliability and efficiency of its national grid. This is a pivotal step in paving the way for a more sustainable future that supports the country’s electrification and decarbonization goals.”

Financial and Development Support
The project is made possible through a financing partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Treasury, which are providing vital support to KETRACO for the development of a stronger and more sustainable electricity grid in Kenya. This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to advancing Kenya’s energy goals by enabling more reliable and efficient power infrastructure.

“France is committed to supporting sustainable infrastructure projects in Kenya, notably in the Power sector, as part of the broader ongoing collaboration between Kenya and France on energy transition and climate. A modern NSCC will make the Kenyan grid more resilient and reliable, enabling the integration of more variable renewable energy and ultimately providing more reliable and affordable power to Kenya’s businesses and households. The project is fully financed by France with two separate and complementary financing from AFD and the French Treasury, supported by a related grand from the European Union dedicated to Capacity building,” said H.E Arnaud Suquet, the French Ambassador to Kenya.

GE Vernova’s Financial Services business played an integral role in the procurement process, advising the consortium and securing concessional financing from the French Treasury to supplement AFD’s funding. This seamless partnership showcases the importance of combining technical expertise with innovative financing to deliver impactful, future-ready energy solutions.

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A National System Control Center (NSCC) is like a central brain of a country's electricity grid. It's responsible for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing the flow of electricity across the entire power system. It can also effectively integrate renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and geothermal into the grid. Real-time monitoring allows for prompt corrective actions, improving grid stability and reducing the risk of power outages and blackouts.

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About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world. Supported by the Company’s purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology helps deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions business electrifies the world with advanced grid technologies and systems, enabling power transmission and distribution across the power grid, and supporting a decarbonized and secured energy transition.

GE Vernova’s Electrification Software business is focused on delivering the intelligent applications and insights needed to accelerate electrification and decarbonization across the entire energy ecosystem – from how it’s created, how it’s orchestrated, to how it’s consumed.

Grid Software business and GridOS® portfolio is trusted by global utilities to orchestrate a more sustainable energy grid and help deliver reliable and affordable electricity to their customers.

Power & Energy Resources Software helps improve reliability and drive decarbonization.

Proficy® Software & Services business delivers proven industrial software that improves efficiency and quality, enables connected workers, and operationalizes sustainability across diverse industries ranging from manufacturing to utilities.

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This document contains forward-looking statements – that is, statements related to future events that by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. These forward-looking statements often address GE Vernova’s expected future business and financial performance and financial condition, and the expected performance of its products, the impact of its services and the results they may generate or produce, and often contain words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “seek,” “see,” “will,” “would,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “target,” “preliminary,” or “range.” Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain, such as statements about planned and potential transactions, investments or projects and their expected results and the impacts of macroeconomic and market conditions and volatility on the Company’s business operations, financial results and financial position and on the global supply chain and world economy.

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GE Vernova whitepapers offer pragmatic approach on AI for more intelligent energy grids

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (June 10, 2025) – As utilities face increasing complexity in the modern energy landscape, GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) has released two whitepapers examining the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in making electric grids more intelligent. These whitepapers are part of a comprehensive series exploring the application of AI to grid operations, planning, and energy market use cases.

First Whitepaper: Empower Intelligent Grids With AI (Download Here)

Utilities are navigating unprecedented challenges impacting the reliability and resiliency of the grid. Integrating both renewable and distributed energy sources like rooftop solar and battery storage makes it difficult for operators to keep the grid in balance. Data centers and broad electrification efforts present difficulties with increased and concentrated demand, along with variable and large energy load patterns. The frequency of extreme weather events and cyber threats threaten grid resilience. Traditional grid management approaches are proving inadequate in addressing these dynamic challenges. AI offers game-changing potential but integrating it into grid planning and operations can be difficult for utilities due to siloed data from disparate systems across operational technology (OT), information technology (IT), and external data (e.g. weather).

This whitepaper offers key steps and considerations to help utilities take a practical approach to successful AI adoption, with building a solid data foundation as an easy first step. It also looks at how GE Vernova’s GridOS® Data Fabric can help utilities access, integrate, and contextualize energy data from GridOS applications and disparate sources in a single, unified view that spans transmission and distribution. Download here.

Second Whitepaper: AI in Grid Operations (Download Here)

Innovative AI capabilities are needed for grid operators to enhance operational insights, provide decision-making guidance, and offer advanced automation. This whitepaper delves deeper into the crucial role of AI in grid operations, with a focus on detection, prediction, and optimization. Key insights include:

  • The complex challenges driving the need for AI adoption in real-time and near-real-time grid operations—intermittent renewables, higher peak loads, distributed generation, multi-directional energy flows, and severe weather events—as well as the requirements utilities must fulfill to successfully apply AI in these areas.

  • An AI adoption framework that takes a pragmatic approach and accounts for risk, including technical and regulatory factors and the automation maturity journey that starts with decision support, then human-in-the-loop, and finally, full automation.

  • Current and emerging AI/ML capabilities in grid operations, including forecasting, inertia prediction, disruption preparation, operator decision support (virtual operator), alarm analysis, log analysis, and more.

The whitepaper also looks at how GridOS, the first software portfolio designed specifically for grid orchestration, provides the necessary AI platform to support utilities in their AI/ML journey across various maturity levels and automation needs. GridOS comprises a microservices-based architecture and provides horizontal scalability, solution composability, a grid-specific data foundation, and hybrid cloud deployment capability. All of these are essential for AI-enabled applications. Download here.

Quote from Mahesh Sudhakaran, General Manager of GE Vernova’s Grid Software business: “There is no AI for electric grid networks without unlocking control system data. Our mission is to empower every utility to achieve grid orchestration through data and AI. We have a pragmatic approach to help utilities unlock their energy data and activate AI-enabled applications and train AI models so they can orchestrate a more intelligent grid.”

Happening Now: GridOS Customer Conference

This announcement coincides with Orchestrate 2025, GE Vernova’s annual GridOS customer conference. More than seventy global electric utilities are attending the event, which is taking place June 10–13 in Boston, MA. To learn more about how GE Vernova’s grid orchestration software can help utilities achieve a more sustainable energy grid, click here.

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About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world. Supported by the Company’s purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology helps deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

GE Vernova’s Electrification Software business is focused on delivering the intelligent applications and insights needed to accelerate electrification and decarbonization across the entire energy ecosystem – from how it’s created, how it’s orchestrated, to how it’s consumed.

Grid Software business and GridOS® portfolio is trusted by global utilities to orchestrate a more sustainable energy grid and help deliver reliable and affordable electricity to their customers.

Power & Energy Resources Software helps improve reliability and drive decarbonization.

Proficy® Software & Services business delivers proven industrial software that improves efficiency and quality, enables connected workers, and operationalizes sustainability across diverse industries ranging from manufacturing to utilities.

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Japan’s METI and GE Vernova launch joint focus group to bolster energy security and innovation

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  • GE Vernova and METI launch first-of-its-kind focus group to enhance collaboration on energy security and supply chain

  • GE Vernova signs MOUs with Eurus Energy on onshore wind and Mitsubishi Electric Semiconductor Business on electrification to explore specific opportunities in wind and electrification

  • Unique METI industry group to strengthen US-Japan energy ties.

TOKYO, Japan (June 10, 2025) - GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind focus group aimed at addressing challenges and opportunities and deepening collaboration in energy security and supply chain. The initiative was announced at a launch ceremony attended by METI’s Director-General for Energy and Environmental Policy, Shinichi Kihara, and GE Vernova’s Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer, Roger Martella, witnessed by the State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Yuichiro Koga.

This significant initiative aligns with Japan-US energy policy, building upon current’ relations, to further solidify cooperation between the two nations to strengthen the energy sector. The focus group will serve as a dedicated platform for GE Vernova and METI to engage on key themes crucial to Japan’s energy landscape, which include energy security in wind power; innovation in gas turbines utilizing hydrogen, ammonia, and Carbon Capture and Storage; and opportunities in electrification and nuclear energy.

The focus group will also endeavor to deepen collaboration between GE Vernova and Japanese companies in the energy sector. As part of the launch, GE Vernova signed the following Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with leading Japanese companies:

  • Collaboration with Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation to explore opportunities under the GX (Green Transformation) Industrial Location in northern Hokkaido, utilizing GE Vernova’s onshore wind turbines for data center power needs and accelerate renewable energy adoption.
  • Collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation’s Semiconductor Business to supply Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) for GE Vernova’s High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) projects —supporting advanced electrification solutions and grid modernization worldwide.

“We welcome the opportunity to play a vital role in the advancement of the global energy sector in partnership with GE Vernova, a leading U.S. energy company with deep roots in Japan. This focus group, a testament to positive Japan-US bilateral ties, and the MOUs with our national champions Eurus Energy and Mitsubishi Electric, will serve as a powerful platform to drive innovation and strengthen our energy resilience for the future”, said Mr. Shinichi Kihara, Director-General for Energy and Environmental Policy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

"With the launch of this first-of-its-kind focus group alongside METI, we are taking decisive action toward addressing the challenges facing the global energy sector. Our strong, ongoing relationships with Eurus Energy and Mitsubishi Electric are a step further in this endeavor, as we jointly explore the vast potential of onshore wind and electrification as key areas of focus. This collaboration is aligned with Japan’s 2050 net zero goals, and we are committed to delivering tangible progress in energy security and innovation across the energy value chain globally, through the development of breakthrough innovations like hydrogen, ammonia, advanced nuclear, and carbon capture technologies”, said Roger Martella, Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer, GE Vernova.

GE Vernova has a long-standing presence in Japan, spanning over 130 years, and remains a key partner in the nation’s decarbonization journey. With approximately 450 employees in Japan, GE Vernova and its technologies contribute significantly to Japan’s stable power supply, accounting for around 50% of the country’s installed Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine power generation capacity and 25% of the country’s onshore wind capacity through its gas turbines, steam turbines, nuclear power, and wind turbines. All of GE Vernova’s business segments – Power, Wind, and Electrification – have a strong footprint in the country, positioning the company to optimize Japan’s energy system with holistic solutions across the entire energy value chain.

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Photo 1: Roger Martella (left), Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer of GE Vernova; Yuichiro Koga (center), State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; and Shinichi Kihara (right), Director-General for Energy and Environmental Policy at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, at the signing ceremony.

Photo 2: Roger Martella (left), Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer of GE Vernova; Tetsuya Suwabe (center), President and CEO of Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation; and Yuichiro Koga (right), State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, at the signing ceremony.

Photo 3: Johan Bindele (left), Vice President and CEO of Grid Systems Integration at GE Vernova; Masayoshi Takemi (center), Executive Officer and Group President of Semiconductor Device at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; and Yuichiro Koga (right), State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, at the signing ceremony.

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About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world. Supported by the Company’s purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology helps deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

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This document contains forward-looking statements – that is, statements related to future events that by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. These forward-looking statements often address GE Vernova’s expected future business and financial performance and financial condition, and the expected performance of its products, the impact of its services and the results they may generate or produce, and often contain words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “seek,” “see,” “will,” “would,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “target,” “preliminary,” or “range.” Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain, such as statements about planned and potential transactions, investments or projects and their expected results and the impacts of macroeconomic and market conditions and volatility on the Company’s business operations, financial results and financial position and on the global supply chain and world economy.

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GE Vernova commissions India’s first variable speed pumped storage unit at the country’s largest hydropower complex

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  • GE Vernova has been selected to deliver a full water to wire solution, including the hydropower generating equipment, power electronics and controls, to THDC India Limited

  • Project includes four 250 megawatts hydropower variable speed pumped storage units, allowing short response times to load changes, giving the network greater flexibility. 

  • Once completed, the Tehri Hydropower Complex is expected to become the largest hydro power plant in India with 2.4 GW of generating capacity, and support the region with irrigation and drinking water

VADODARA, INDIA (June 6, 2025) – GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) announced today that it has commissioned the first of four 250 megawatts (MW) variable speed units at THDC India Limited’s Tehri Pumped Storage Hydropower Plant, part of the Tehri Hydropower Complex. With this 1 gigawatt (GW) expansion, the complex will reach 2.4 GW of generating capacity and become India’s largest hydropower complex. The project’s reservoir will also help provide support with irrigation and drinking water during non-monsoon periods to the state of Uttarakhand, where it is located.

“With this project, Tehri will become India’s first power plant to use variable speed pumped storage technology and the country’s most modern hydropower station. With fast transition between the turbine and pump operation, the four new units are expected to enable power control, leading to significantly improved grid flexibility. These are all crucial capabilities as more renewables are integrated into the country’s energy mix,” said Frederic Ribieras, CEO of GE Vernova’s hydropower business.

Hydropower remains a cornerstone of India's renewable energy landscape, with an installed capacity of approximately 51 GW as of early 2024, positioning the nation as fifth globally in hydroelectric capacity.

Pumped Storage units help stabilize the grid by acting as giant batteries: water is pumped from the lower to the upper reservoir in times of surplus energy and, in times of demand, water from the upper reservoir is released, generating electricity as the water passes through the turbine. This technology is the largest source of long duration energy storage globally, representing about 94%* of total energy storage capacity.

For this project, GE Vernova capitalizes on its broad portfolio of technologies to generate, transfer and store power to deliver a full water to wire solution, spanning from electrical, hydraulic machines to converters. The project includes the integration of the four doubly fed induction motor generators and the associated pump turbines with the power electronics and control systems.

Tehri Hydropower Complex includes:

  • 1 GW Tehri Hydropower Plant commissioned in 2006.
  • 400 MW Koteshwar Hydropower Plant commissioned in 2012.
  • 1 GW Tehri Pumped Storage Hydropower Plant, where GE Vernova is currently delivering four 250 MW Pumped Storage Variable Speed Doubly Fed systems.**

GE Vernova has a substantial presence in India, across generation, transmission and distribution. The company has five Technology and Engineering Centers focused on advancing research, development and innovation in new technologies and solutions. Additionally, the company operates 11 manufacturing sites that are undertaking local production and generating employment. The company’s workforce in India comprises of over 10,000 employees, including more than 3,000 engineers and technologists.

*According to the International Hydropower Association.

**Under an order signed in 2011 with Tehri Hydro Development Corporation India Limited (THDC).

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About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world. Supported by the Company’s purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology helps deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business produces advanced technologies that harness the power of water to help deliver reliable power to some of the world's largest economies and remote communities

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GE Vernova and Uniper announce turbine upgrade at Grain power station in Kent, UK

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  • GE Vernova is upgrading three GT26 gas turbines at Uniper’s Grain power plant starting in 2026

  • The upgrade aims at boosting power output and efficiency of the power generation assets, while supporting Uniper’s ambition to decarbonise its fleet by reducing CO2 emissions per megawatt (MW)

  • First of this kind upgrade was initially installed at Uniper’s Enfield power plant in the UK in 2021

LONDON, United Kingdom (June 5, 2025) – GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) today announced that Uniper signed a contractual service agreement to upgrade three GT26 gas turbine units powering Uniper’s Grain power station in Kent, UK. This GT26 High Efficiency (HE) upgrade is expected to increase efficiency and the power output, while supporting Uniper’s ambition to decarbonise its fleet by reducing carbon intensity (CO2 emissions per MW) at the plant.

“Increasing efficiency and the ability to maintain high availability, while lowering operational, and maintenance costs, is crucial for the long-term success of Grain power station,” said Bill Cliff, Uniper power station manager Enfield, Grain and Taylors Lane. “We worked with GE Vernova on the validation of GE Vernova’s GT26 HE upgrade at our Enfield power station, so we already had experience of this technology. Investment in our assets to reduce their carbon intensity, increase capacity and maintain reliability for security of supply is key for both Grain and Enfield power stations.”

At Enfield, the modernisation project improved performance and extended the maintenance interval of the combined cycle gas turbine. GE Vernova’s prior testing on the GT26 HE technology indicated increases in plant output approximately 25 megawatts (MW) per unit, a 1 percent increased efficiency in part load and a 1.8 percent increase in baseload efficiency, worth up to $1 million fuel savings per unit per year, and maintenance intervals extended up to 32,000 hours.

“For years, GE Vernova and Uniper have worked together to build and maintain power plants, using leading technologies and this upgrade marks another example of our successful cooperation,” said Joseph Anis, President and CEO of GE Vernova's Gas Power business in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. “This upgrade is expected to revitalise Uniper’s Grain power plant and to increase its reliability and availability in the Great Britain generation landscape, supporting its long-term profitability and viability. GE Vernova is well-positioned to provide services and upgrade solutions as customers continue to invest in their fleets to meet rising electricity demand and improve performance.”

GT26 HE Upgrade at a glance
The GT26 HE upgrade includes additive manufactured parts, and innovations in material science and combustion and combines the best from both GE Vernova’s F- and H-Class fleets.

As of end of March 2025, the GT26 HE fleet has achieved more than 100,000 operating hours. With 15 units sold and 8 units in operation, this significant achievement reflects the GT26 HE upgrade’s remarkable performance and reliability.

Key performance benefits[1] include:

Higher efficiency for combined-cycle power plants:

  • Approximately 2 percent base load increased efficiency,
  • Up to 1 percent increased efficiency in part load
  • Increased plant output from 15 up to 55 MW per unit, improving revenue.

[1] Indicative values based on:

  • Rating GT26 2006 configuration
  • 6,500 yearly operating hours
  • 4,000 full load hours yearly.

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Notes to editors

Financial Editors: Please note this order was booked in the first quarter of 2025.
To learn more on the upgrade: https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power/services/gas-turbines/gt26-service-solutions/high-efficiency

About Uniper
Düsseldorf-based Uniper is a European energy company with global reach and activities in more than 40 countries. With around 7,500 employees, the company makes an important contribution to security of supply in Europe, particularly in its core markets of Germany, the UK, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Uniper’s operations include power generation in Europe, global energy trading, and a broad gas portfolio. Uniper procures gas – including liquefied natural gas (LNG) – and other energy sources on global markets. The company owns and operates gas storage facilities with a total capacity of more than 7 billion cubic meters.   

Uniper aims to be carbon-neutral by 2040. To achieve this, the company is transforming its power plants and facilities and investing in flexible, dispatchable power generation units. Uniper is one of Europe’s largest operators of hydropower plants and is helping further expand solar and wind power, which are essential for a more sustainable and secure future. Uniper is gradually adding renewable and low-carbon gases such as biomethane to its gas portfolio and is developing a hydrogen portfolio with the aim of a long-term transition. The company plans to offset any remaining CO2 emissions by high-quality CO2-offsets.   

Uniper is a reliable partner for communities, municipal utilities, and industrial enterprises for planning and implementing innovative, lower-carbon solutions on their decarbonization journey. Uniper is a hydrogen pioneer, is active worldwide along the entire hydrogen value chain, and is conducting projects to make hydrogen a mainstay of the energy supply. 

In the UK, Uniper owns and operates a flexible generation portfolio of power stations, a fast-cycle gas storage facility and two high pressure gas pipelines, from Theddlethorpe to Killingholme and from Blyborough to Cottam. We also have significant long-term regasification capacity at the Grain LNG terminal in Kent, to convert LNG back to natural gas. https://www.uniper.energy/

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About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world. Supported by the Company’s purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology helps deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. It is a global leader in gas turbines and power plant technologies and services with the industry’s largest installed base. 

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Zigzagging across fields, within sight of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it downtown of Hermleigh, Texas, the Pyron Wind Farm is typical of America’s wind power fleet: efficient, high-tech, and Texas-sized.