In related news, GE Vernova, the company representing GE’s energy businesses, announced that it has acquired Alteia, a French provider of AI-driven visual intelligence solutions. This strategic move significantly boosts GE Vernova’s ability to arm utilities with new, cutting-edge visual data solutions. Most importantly, it will increase their operational efficiency and enhance overall grid management. The announcement was dated July 21, 2025, with an acquisition completion projected for August 1, 2025.
Alteia’s software technology integrates seamlessly into GE Vernova’s GridOS suite. This integration increases the company’s capacity to provide utilities with up-to-date visual information and help them manage their electric grid more efficiently. Today, the GridOS suite already prepares utilities to ensure power grid stability after disruptive events like storms and wildfires. With Alteia’s deep expertise, GE Vernova aims to bolster its AI- and data-focused vision for GridOS.
Strengthening Visual Data Solutions
GE Vernova has been utilizing Alteia’s software through its GridOS Visual Intelligence platform, which employs AI and visual data analytics to help utilities monitor electric grids effectively. This technology enables utilities to assess damage and inspect assets across extensive power lines, ensuring a more resilient grid infrastructure.
As GE Vernova integrates its operational systems across the future digital thread, GE Vernova will become an AI-powered visual data leader. This combined tech offers greater visibility into the condition of the grid and a faster ability to assess damage, two huge pain points electric utility companies frequently face.
“With this acquisition, we are excited to increase our investment in a critical element of our GridOS offering. Together with the Alteia team, whose expertise will help to advance our AI and data-centric vision for GridOS, GE Vernova will be able to solve for critical pain points that our utility customers face every day and help them use visual data and AI in an actionable way to prevent disruptions or restore power quickly. This acquisition aims to solidify further our position as a data and AI leader in grid orchestration software and pave the way for additional use cases that could enhance the visual precision needed for modern grid operations.” – Scott Reese
Future Initiatives and Contracts
This acquisition supports GE Vernova’s long-standing promise to deliver improvements to utility infrastructure. Last month, for example, the company’s technology was selected to execute a major upgrade of the Kühmoos substation with TransnetBW in southern Germany. This initiative, set for completion in July 2025, focuses on improving frequency control, ensuring voltage reliability, and enhancing electrical power transfer between Germany, France, and Switzerland.
We anticipate that integration of Alteia’s solutions will significantly boost this initiative. It will better equip utilities to improve how power is distributed and find efficiencies across the grid.
“We started Alteia with the mission to simplify visual data integration and analysis for utilities, a vision that aligns perfectly with GE Vernova’s GridOS portfolio. This acquisition is more than just a strategic step – it enhances our ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions to our clients while accelerating our AI roadmap for smarter, more efficient infrastructure operations.” – Michael de Lagarde
