1892 General Electric Company Founded
THE CHALLENGES WE CONFRONT
Challenges
THE SOLUTIONS WE'RE DELIVERING
Solutions
THE PEOPLE OF GE VERNOVA
People
“The opportunities and challenges we confront as a company are central to our planet’s future.”
Scott Strazik, Chief Executive Officer
Building a More Sustainable Electric Power System
Our Sustainability Framework
The four pillars of our sustainability framework integrate all of our businesses and technology toward helping to build a more sustainable electric power system.
Invent, deploy, and service the technology to decarbonize and electrify the world
Advance safe, responsible, and equitable working conditions in our operations and across our value chain
Catalyze access to more secure, sustainable, reliable, and affordable electricity, and help drive economic development
Innovate more while using less, safeguarding natural resources
“In the power sector, the control room is a place of unflappable professional execution in operating what’s been described as the planet’s most complex machine, the electric grid. Those nerve centres inspired us to build our own Control Room - our new Sustainability Management System - to route and align our internal and external efforts toward solving the world’s most complex challenges.”
Roger Martella, Chief Sustainability Officer
Control Room: Our Sustainability Management System
Our Control Room is our multi-dimensional, cross functional sustainability approach that is core to our internal operations and drives our external impact.
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- Communities
- Customers
- Employees
- Investors
- Partnerships & memberships
- Regulators & government agencies
- Suppliers
Stakeholder Engagement
How we operate
GE Vernova sustainability framework
How we IMPACT
Guiding principles
- Impact
- Pragmatism
- Credibility
Electrifying and Decarbonizing on a Global Scale
Sustainability is at our core as a company and as a team. We guide our efforts at GE Vernova through the four pillars of our Sustainability Framework: Electrify, Decarbonize, Conserve, and Thrive.
There From Electrification, To The Energy Transition
For more than 130 years, people have counted on us to “find out what the world needs… and try to invent it.”
Thomas Edison, founder of GE
1892
First central power station in New York
The Edison Electric Illuminating Company turns electricity into a commodity, constructing the first central power station in New York City
Electrical systems
Production of transformers commence in Paris (France), enabling transmission & distribution electrical systems
1892 OUR LEGACY
Record capacity
water-wheel generator
Building of a record-capacity water-wheel generator for Niagara Falls consisting of three GE 25-cycle, three-phase, 12,000 volt 32,500 kva generators
Generators for one of the world's largest dams
Supplier of the generators for the Grand Coulee dam in Washington. The dam took eight years to complete and is one of the largest structures ever built by mankind. It surpasses the Hoover Dam in power generation capacity
First gas turbine shipped
Shipping of the United States’ first gas turbine for electricity production to Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Creation of corporate gift-matching
The GE Education Fund is renamed the GE Foundation. In 1954, the Foundation creates the concept of corporate gift-matching – still in practice today – to support employees in their personal philanthropy by providing a 1:1 match. This is the first corporate matching gift program for colleges and universities, which over time revolutionized corporate giving and empowered employees and corporations to team up and leverage their higher education donations
Nuclear power for California
GE reactor becomes first privately owned and operated nuclear power plant to deliver electricity to the grid in Vallecitos, California
World's first commercial HVDC scheme
World’s first commercial thyristor high voltage direct current (HVDC) scheme debuts at Eel River, Canada. HVDC technology will continue to evolve, enabling utilities to move more power further, interconnect grids, integrate renewables, and improve network performance
World’s first F-class gas turbine begins operations
Support for minority engineering
Reginald Jones, GE’s Chairman and CEO from 1972 to 1981, leads a national effort to support minority engineering. Throughout the 70s, the GE Foundation provides grants to strengthen academic offerings in historically black engineering schools, increase the overall number of minority enrollees and graduates, and encourage leadership activities in engineering for minorities. These grants help form what will become the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)
Offshore wind
Supplier of the wind blades for the world's first offshore wind farm in Vindeby, Denmark
First aeroderivative gas turbine
World's first mobile aeroderivative gas turbine for providing a baseload bridge to permanent power installations or for generating backup power in the wake of natural disasters, plant shutdowns, grid instability or isolated locations
Scaling hydropower
Part of the consortium building turbines for Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, Hubei province, China. With a 22,500 MW capacity, it is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station
The world's longest transmission line
Part of the construction of the world’s longest transmission line, which runs nearly 1,500 miles between Sao Paolo and the Amazon in Brazil
Digital hydropower plants
Unveiling of Digital Hydropower Plant, making hydropower more efficient through automation and data-driven maintenance. Integrating machine learning with hydropower control systems promises to generate up to 1% extra output
SF₆-free solution
Installation of first SF₆-free 420kv gas-insulated line at National Grid Sellindge substation (UK). The solution provides a 99% reduction in global warming potential
Our most powerful onshore wind turbine
With a revolutionary two-piece blade, our 6MW onshore wind platform has grown from an initial 4.8 MW through to the latest 6.1 MW. By end 2023, almost 11 GW of our 4-6 MW turbines have been booked as firm orders
2020-2030 DECADE OF ACTION
Leading development of small modular nuclear reactors
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to lead a team simplifying nuclear reactor design, reducing plant construction costs and lowering operations and maintenance costs for the BWRX-300, a 300 megawatt electric (MWe) small modular reactor
Advanced HVDC Systems
GE Vernova and Sembcorp Marine to partner on three High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) contracts for TenneT’s 2GW Program in the Netherlands. One of the most important infrastructure projects of the century, putting Europe on track to become the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050
Grid modernization
Launch of GridOS grid orchestration portfolio that spans planning, operating, and transacting activities, fundamentally changing how software is being used on the grid
Haliade-X prototype installed
The first Haliade-X wind turbine prototype is installed in the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In 2021, Haliade-X became the industry's first 14 MW offshore wind turbine
Recyclable wind blades
Prototype of first ZEBRA recyclable wind turbine blade produced by LM Wind Power
Wind turbines for North America
GE introduced its next generation 3.4 MW onshore wind turbine. Designed specifically for North America, it delivers high-capacity factor with balance of plant simplicity, improved logistics and reliable, bankable performance
2024
H-class gas turbines
Introduction of the 7HA and 9HA next-generation H-Class gas turbines. Today the HA is the world's fastest-growing fleet in its class, with 100 units installed globally and more than 60 additional units on order. GE Vernova’s HA gas turbines have accumulated more than 2.5 million commercial operating hours, and have been ordered by over 50 customers across more than 20 countries
Launch of GE Vernova
On April 2, 2024, GE Vernova became an independent, purpose-built company
Direct Air Capture (DAC)
GE Vernova successfully demonstrates scalable Direct Air Capture (DAC) system for CO₂ removal
Hydrogen as a Fuel
GE Vernova will upgrade one of four 7E gas turbines at Duke Energy’s Florida-based DeBary solar farm to run on 100% hydrogen as part of a green hydrogen pilot program
Launch of small modular nuclear reactors
Announcement of development of its first small modular reactor, the BWRX-300, designed to produce 300 megawatts of carbon-free electricity
2030-2050 BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION
Carbon Capture
Technip Energies, GE Vernova, and Balfour Beatty received a Letter of Intent from bp on behalf of NZT Power Limited for the execution phase of the Net Zero Teesside Power in the UK. It is one of the world’s first commercial scale gas-fired power stations with carbon capture, expected to capture up to 2 million tons of CO₂ per year
Next generation of wind-turbines
First Haliade-X turbine installed at sea begins producing power - our 13MW Haliade-X now produces power for the UK's Dogger Bank Wind Farm. Next-generation workhorse onshore and offshore wind turbines prioritize quality, availability, and reliability
2050
2020-2030 Decade of Action
2023 highlights
2023 highlights
Reports and Data
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GE Vernova published its first sustainability report on September 18, 2024. The report sets out our full sustainability strategy, approach and performance.
All data on the challenges we confront is sourced from the International Energy Agency (IEA)