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GE Vernova: Circularity in Electrical Equipment
GE Vernova: Circularity in Electrical Equipment
Why this Challenge?

As electrification accelerates, more electrical equipment is being deployed across grids, industries, buildings, and critical systems, increasing the need to reduce its environmental footprint. This challenge exists to accelerate circular solutions that make electrical infrastructure more durable, repairable, traceable, and resource efficient. It matters because the industry has a major opportunity to cut waste, extend asset life, and recover more value from materials.

Our Startup Challenge
Circular Power: Advancing Equipment for a Circular Future

The Startup Challenge's Context:
As electrical infrastructure scales to support the energy transition, the industry must do more to embed circularity into how equipment is designed, used, maintained, and recovered. Current approaches often fall short on repairability, refurbishment, material recovery, traceability, and lifecycle visibility. This challenge seeks solutions that reduce waste, extend asset life, improve resource efficiency, and lower lifecycle impacts across electrical equipment.


What we are looking for:
We are looking for startups developing circular solutions for electrical equipment, including circular materials and sourcing, refurbishment and remanufacturing, life extension, material recovery and recycling, traceability and digital product passports, reverse logistics, and AI-enabled asset performance optimization. Solutions should demonstrate measurable environmental and operational value and have a credible path to real-world integration across asset lifecycles.

Selection Criteria
Circularity impact

The solution improves reuse, repair, recovery, recyclability, or lifecycle optimization.

Technical feasibility

The solution is practical and relevant for industrial, infrastructure, or utility applications.

Scalability

The solution has the potential to scale across products, sites, customers, or geographies.

Business value

The solution can create operational, economic, and sustainability benefits.

Strategic fit

The startup aligns with GE Vernova Electrification’s sustainability and innovation priorities.

Rewards
  • Pilot with GE Vernova

    Opportunity to explore a pilot with GE Vernova’s Electrification segment and test your solution in a real-world industrial context.

  • Mentoring from our experts

    Access mentoring from GE Vernova experts across technology, sustainability, and product to help strengthen your solution and its market fit.

  • Visibility through our channels

    Gain visibility at VivaTech and through GE Vernova communication channels, helping showcase your startup and solution to a wider audience.

  • 2 VivaTech Startup Passes

    Receive two 4-day Startup Passes to VivaTech 2026, giving your team access to the event, networking, and startup ecosystem opportunities.

Play an active role in our six business sectors

Your solution, product or service demonstrates that you can play an active role in LVMH's ecosystem and deliver on a large scale. Whether it be the creation process, the omnichannel customer journey, or operation and manufacturing, you support the Group's legacy of excellence and innovation in all areas of its 6 business sectors.

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    20/06/2026

    10th edition of VivaTech

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Your personal data is collected by Crédit Agricole S.A., 12 Place des Etats-Unis, 92120 Montrouge, as the data controller, so that you can participate in the Challenge organized from 18/03/2026 during the Vivatech event, called: “Digital Sustainability Training Modules”. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right, under the conditions provided by law, to access your personal data at any time, to exercise your right to data portability, to have it rectified, to request its erasure in compliance with legal obligations, to object to its processing, to define general or specific instructions regarding the fate of your personal data after your death, or to restrict its processing for legitimate reasons. You can access more detailed information on the protection of your personal data by consulting, in particular, Article 13: “Personal data protection” of the challenge rules.

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