GE Vernova Brings 26 GW Online in 2025 with 64% Scope 1 and 2 Reduction Since 2019

GE Vernova has released its 2025 Sustainability Report demonstrating continued progress across its mission to electrify the world and decarbonise, including bringing 26 gigawatts of new generating capacity online in 2025 at a carbon intensity approximately 31 percent below the global average carbon intensity of the existing grid, with 47 percent deployed in developing and emerging economies. The company achieved a 27 percent year-over-year reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions in 2025, reaching a cumulative 64 percent reduction since 2019, alongside 22 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide avoided through deployment of technologies with lower emissions profiles than current grid standards. Scott Strazik, GE Vernova Chief Executive Officer, said energy is about people and the company is working to electrify the planet in a way that enables individuals, communities and economies to thrive every day.

 

Grid Electrification and Developing Economy Impact

 

The 26 gigawatts of new generating capacity added in 2025 is approximately equivalent to the installed generating capacity of the US state of Louisiana, with the 47 percent share deployed in developing and emerging economies representing a meaningful contribution to energy access for populations that remain underserved by existing grid infrastructure. Across grid infrastructure, 68 gigawatts of new power transformers were energised in 2025, equivalent to the approximate installed generating capacity of Egypt, with 33 percent deployed in developing and emerging economies. The GE Vernova Foundation's workforce development programmes have reached approximately 10,700 students and learners since the beginning of 2024, with an overall goal to reach 30,000 learners by 2030, addressing the human capital dimension of the energy transition alongside the technology and infrastructure dimensions.

The 22 million metric tonne carbon dioxide avoidance figure represents the emissions difference between the technologies GE Vernova deployed and what may otherwise have been deployed based on current grid standards, providing a systems-level measure of the company's contribution to grid decarbonisation beyond its own operational emissions. This approach to measuring grid impact is commercially significant for a company whose primary sustainability contribution comes through its customers' operations rather than its own manufacturing footprint, making the avoided emissions metric more relevant than Scope 3 downstream emissions accounting alone for understanding GE Vernova's role in the energy transition. The carbon intensity of new capacity at 31 percent below the existing grid average demonstrates that the company's technology portfolio is actively lowering the carbon intensity of power systems globally rather than simply adding capacity at existing intensity levels.

 

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Breakthrough Technology Progress in 2025

 

The 2025 report documents step change progress across four breakthrough technology categories that represent the future of low-carbon power generation. The GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactor at Ontario Power Generation's Darlington site in Ontario received the first SMR construction licence issued in Canada in April 2025 and began construction in May 2025, positioning it to deliver the first operating commercial SMR in the Western world. Construction also began on the Net Zero Teesside Power station in the United Kingdom, expected to be the world's first commercial-scale gas power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage and capable of generating over 740 megawatts of lower-carbon power when completed.

On direct air capture, the company's 10-tonne-per-year pilot system at its Advanced Research Center in Niskayuna, New York is now operational and will soon be deployed at Deep Sky Alpha in Alberta, Canada, becoming the world's first cross-technology carbon dioxide removal hub. GE Vernova and IHI completed a new large-scale combustion test facility to test advanced ammonia combustion systems at F-class gas turbine operating conditions, while GE Vernova successfully validated a hydrogen dry low NOx combustor for B and E-class gas turbines demonstrating operations on natural gas and hydrogen blends and on 100 percent hydrogen with dry emissions below 25 parts per million NOx. Together these four technology tracks position GE Vernova across the broadest range of future low-carbon power generation options of any major energy technology company.

 

Circularity and Conservation Progress

 

GE Vernova's circularity coverage under its 4R framework of Rethink, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle reached 53 percent of top products in 2025, an increase from 38 percent in 2024, with 76 percent of products covered by life cycle assessments or environmental product declarations. The rapid expansion of circularity framework coverage reflects a systematic effort to extend the environmental performance measurement and improvement discipline that is standard in operations management into the product design and end-of-life management domains that determine the full lifecycle environmental impact of energy infrastructure equipment. Roger Martella, Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer at GE Vernova, said the company's story is one of unrelenting focus on delivering technologies the world needs not just today but for decades ahead, expressing optimism about the ability to meet current needs and those of future generations.

The company also launched a new Code of Conduct in 2025 shifting from a rules-based to a values-based ethics and compliance framework, published a Human Rights Statement detailing enhanced due diligence processes and risk assessments, and distributed $12.8 million in total GE Vernova family giving through the GE Vernova Foundation alongside $800,000 in disaster relief and recovery aid. The newly launched Electrification Impact Tracker, released alongside the sustainability report, visualises the gigawatts of new power generating capacity added and technologies deployed across regions, providing a public-facing illustration of the company's global electrification impact that complements the quantitative metrics in the formal sustainability report.

 

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Outlook for GE Vernova's Sustainability Trajectory

 

The combination of 26 gigawatts of new capacity added at below-average grid carbon intensity, 64 percent Scope 1 and 2 reduction since 2019, significant breakthrough technology milestones across SMR, CCS, DAC and hydrogen, and expanding circularity framework coverage provides a comprehensive picture of a company making measurable progress across multiple dimensions of the energy transition simultaneously. Whether GE Vernova can sustain the pace of breakthrough technology commercialisation demonstrated in 2025, particularly the advancement of the Darlington SMR from construction start to first commercial operation and the Net Zero Teesside CCS power station from construction to operation, will be the most consequential test of its technology leadership claims over the next several years. Sustained delivery across these milestone projects would establish GE Vernova as the leading diversified energy technology company for the full spectrum of low-carbon power generation, from renewables integration and grid infrastructure through to nuclear, carbon capture and hydrogen combustion.

 

Source: BUSINESS WIRE