GE Vernova’s New Sustainability Report Highlights Progress Adding New Power to the Grid, Enabling People to Thrive, Reducing Carbon Intensity, and Advancing Breakthrough Energy Technologies

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 17, 2026--

GE Vernova today released its 2025 Sustainability Report, demonstrating continued progress toward its mission to electrify the world to thrive and decarbonize, with an emphasis on moving bold and innovative breakthrough technologies from concepts to reality.

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The company’s annual sustainability reporting highlights milestones for bringing new global power generation online the world needs to expand energy access, including in developing and emerging economies, while doing so at a lower carbon intensity than the global grid average. The annual summary also noted additional investments around the world in workforce training for the energy sector’s next generation of leaders and continued reductions to the company’s Scope 1 and 2 emissions.

“At its core, our work is not only about electrons and emissions,” said Scott Strazik, GE Vernova CEO. “Energy is about people, and we’re working to electrify the planet in a way that enables individuals, communities, and economies to thrive, every day.”

“The story of GE Vernova is one of an unrelenting focus on delivering the technologies the world needs not just today, but importantly for the decades ahead,” said Roger Martella, Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer. “I have never been more optimistic about our ability to help meet not only the needs of today, but of the generations that follow.”

The new Sustainability Report showcases the company's comprehensive sustainability strategy based on a refreshed sustainability framework which is underpinned by 5 Charges, the bold ambitions driving how the company delivers impact to achieve its sustainability goals. Progress on these goals is driven by the four strategic pillars of the sustainability framework: Electrify, Decarbonize, Conserve, and Thrive.

2025 Progress includes:

ELECTRIFY:Catalyze access to more secure, sustainable, reliable, and affordable electricity, and help drive global economic development

DECARBONIZE:Invent, deploy, and service the technology to help decarbonize our world

Breakthrough technologies moving from concept to reality:
As part of the company’s focus on innovating for the future, the 2025 Sustainability Reporthighlights step change progress on breakthrough technologies:

CONSERVE:Innovate more, while using less, safeguarding natural resources

THRIVE:Advance safe, responsible, and fair working conditions in our operations and across our value chain

Empowering AI For Customers, Company and Communities
As AI transforms how the world works, GE Vernova is using the power of automation and Artificial Intelligence to transform energy into solutions. The company is working to drive greater efficiency, higher quality, and innovation that can improve outcomes for our customers, company, and communities.

The report details how GE Vernova is scaling AI infrastructure for customers, pursuing AI as a key area of growth and innovation within the company, and establishing key partnerships with organizations in our communities to explore and evaluate potential solutions that aim to use AI for sustainability-related use cases.

Electrification Impact Tracker
Released alongside the 2025 Sustainability Report today is GE Vernova’s newly launched Electrification Impact Tracker, available on GE Vernova’s sustainability website. By visualizing the gigawatts of new power generating capacity added and technologies deployed to power homes in various regions, the Impact Tracker illustrates our company's global impact electrifying the planet and supporting people and communities so everyone can thrive.

A New Way of Solving Energy Access
In April 2025, GE Vernova hosted the first-of-its kind Mendoza Collective Action Summit. Over three days in Mendoza, Argentina, 15 global leaders from across the public, private, and academic sectors came together to confront a shared challenge: how to accelerate access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy for all.

What emerged was a shared sense of urgency that we need new ways of working together, which led to the development of a set of shared foundational values to guide this work, known as the Mendoza Principles. The report outlines the principles and actions that the energy industry must take to meet rapidly growing energy demand while delivering sustainable development for the benefit of our communities. Read the Mendoza Reporthere.

“2025 marks the transformative moment where GE Vernova’s story became squarely focused on serving the future. The world’s growing needs are changing, and we need to change to be ahead of it,” Martella said.

GE Vernova is a signatory of, and participant in, the UN Global Compact (UNGC). The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) provide 17 objectives to help address the most pressing global challenges. Our sustainability efforts align with ten of the 17 SDGs.

The full 2025 Sustainability Report is available at https://www.gevernova.com/sustainability/reports-data.

GE Vernova’s New Sustainability Report Highlights Progress Adding New Power to the Grid, Enabling People to Thrive, Reducing Carbon Intensity, and Advancing Breakthrough Energy Technologies

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged the world's wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced artificial intelligence systems, speaking at a high-level meeting that included top AI executives.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a similar plea at the Group of Seven summit of major industrialized nations in France, saying an "international forum" is needed for countries to draw up AI guardrails. He said the task of AI safety should not be left to tech companies.

Overshadowing the discussion on AI was President Donald Trump's administration's directive last week, preventing foreign nationals from using Anthropic’s newest and most powerful artificial intelligence models.

Macron said it was a “good thing” that U.S. officials recognize that so-called frontier AI models could be dangerous, but he also criticized it as a “strictly nationalist” reaction.

The remarks followed a G7 working lunch that brought together AI industry figures, including leaders of three of the most powerful AI companies — Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — on the theme of “ensuring a safe, rapid and effective deployment of artificial intelligence.”

Ahead of the meeting, the White House’s dispute with Anthropic fueled distrust in Europe about American dominance of AI and tech ecosystems.

The company was forced on Friday to take its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with the directive. The AI giant said it did not believe the steps taken by the government were warranted by the concern it flagged about a potential security issue.

When asked by a reporter whether France and other G7 countries had asked Trump to permit access to Anthropic's latest AI models, Macron said he made a forceful plea for the U.S. not to keep cutting-edge AI to itself.

Macron warned of a possible drop in value for U.S. firms pioneering the disruptive technology if they switch off access like a light switch. Macron backed his appeal for partnership among key democracies with an insurance policy: France, he said, will boost funding for its own AI industry, so it’s not left behind if international cooperation breaks down.

Democratic countries ultimately want to prevent authoritarian regimes from getting access to advanced AI systems, Macron said.

"So let us move forward together," he said. “Our relevant agencies must first cooperate so that, in the areas of security and cybersecurity, we have a smooth government-to-government relationship."

Altman said in his lunch speech, attended by the G7 leaders and more than a dozen AI bosses, that the technology's future must be shaped by people, democratic institutions and society as a whole, "not just by the companies building the most capable systems.”

“We need an international forum for discussion that establishes globally accepted standards for testing, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and serves as a venue for cooperation among nations," he said.

Even before the Anthropic episode, there was growing distrust of American companies dominating AI and other tech ecosystems. In Brussels, the European Commission unveiled a tech sovereignty package this month with plans to boost homegrown AI, and at the Vatican, the pope last month called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence.

Trump's intervention with Anthropic highlighted how Europe, Canada or other countries “can be put in an extremely vulnerable position” if they are cut off from advanced AI models, said Zach Meyers, director of research at CERRE, a Brussels-based think tank.

“There is a general anxiety about the state of Europe, the fact that we’re relying on other countries for quite important strategic infrastructure and a desire to do something about it, whatever that is,” Meyers said.

At the G7, Aidan Gomez, CEO of Canada’s Cohere AI, said a “number of proposals” were discussed on working together on AI governance and regulation.

“I think the consensus was we need something,” he told The Associated Press.

He said he told the gathering that democracies should focus their efforts on making sure the G7 “doesn’t just produce the most capable AI, but also the second most capable AI," a reference to the U.S. and China being the world's only two major AI powers.

Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, also attended the meeting, along with the heads of smaller AI labs, including France’s Mistral, Germany’s Black Forest Labs, Italy’s Domyn, Sakana AI of Japan and United Kingdom-based Synthesia.

The G7 comprises France, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK. Brazil, India, Kenya and South Korea were among guest nations invited to participate in some discussions.

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Chan reported from London.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives during the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron greets President Donald Trump, right, during the official arrivals ceremony for the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Monday, June 15, 2026. (Isabel Infantes, Pool Photo via AP)