GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, outlining the company’s continued progress toward its stated mission of electrifying the world while advancing decarbonisation efforts.
The report emphasises the company’s work in transforming ambitious clean energy technologies from early-stage concepts into operational, real-world solutions.
According to the report, GE Vernova brought new power generation online during 2025 at a lower carbon intensity than the global grid average, with a notable share of that capacity directed toward developing and emerging economies.
The company also expanded its workforce training initiatives aimed at preparing the next generation of energy sector leaders, while further reducing its own operational greenhouse gas emissions.
GE Vernova’s sustainability efforts are organised around a refreshed framework built on five guiding principles, referred to internally as Charges, which support four strategic pillars: Electrify, Decarbonise, Conserve, and Thrive.
Under the Electrify pillar, the company reported bringing 26 gigawatts of new generating capacity online in 2025, an amount roughly equivalent to the installed capacity of the state of Louisiana.
Nearly half of that capacity, about 47 per cent, was deployed in developing and emerging markets.
The company also energised 68 gigawatts of new power transformers across grid infrastructure, comparable to the installed capacity of Egypt, with a third of that work occurring in developing regions.
Additionally, the GE Vernova Foundation has reached approximately 10,700 students and learners through workforce development programs since the start of 2024, working toward a goal of 30,000 learners.
On the Decarbonise front, the company stated that new generating capacity brought online in 2025 was about 31 per cent below the global average carbon intensity of the existing grid.
GE Vernova also reported avoiding 22 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions last year, a figure the company compares to removing roughly one million gasoline-powered vehicles from the road for a year.
The report also detailed advances in several breakthrough technologies.
In April 2025, GE Vernova Hitachi received the first licence issued to construct a small modular reactor in Canada, with construction beginning in May at Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington site.
Separately, construction began on the Net Zero Teesside power station in the United Kingdom, which is expected to become the world’s first commercial-scale gas power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology, generating more than 740 megawatts of lower-carbon power.
The company’s direct air capture pilot system in Niskayuna, New York, is now operational and is expected to soon be deployed at Deep Sky Alpha in Alberta, Canada.
GE Vernova also reported progress on ammonia and hydrogen combustion technologies, including a new large-scale test facility developed with IHI.
Regarding the Conserve pillar, GE Vernova reduced its Scope 1 and 2 market-based greenhouse gas emissions by 27 per cent year over year, marking a 64 per cent reduction since 2019.
The company also reported that 53 per cent of its top products are now covered under its circularity framework.
Under the Thrive pillar, the GE Vernova Foundation distributed 12.8 million dollars in family giving and 800,000 dollars in disaster relief aid in 2025, while the company also updated its Code of Conduct and earned workplace culture recognitions during the year.
