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Aker Horizons ASA: Fourth-quarter results 2024

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FORNEBU, Norway, Feb. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Aker Horizons ASA (OSE: AKH), a developer of green energy and industry, today announced results for the fourth quarter 2024. Aker Horizons’ net capital employed stood at NOK 5.9 billion, a decrease of NOK 0.2 billion from the third quarter, mainly reflecting AKH’s share of results in the portfolio companies in Q4. The company reported a cash position of NOK 2.9 billion and an undrawn credit facility of EUR 500 million, giving available liquidity of NOK 8.8 billion.

Main developments in the portfolio:

Aker Carbon Capture has proposed a dividend of NOK 3.5 billion, and reports a new contract award in SLB Capturi:

– The Board of Directors of ACC ASA has proposed a dividend of NOK 3.5 billion (NOK 1.5 billion to AKH), subject to approval by ACC ASA’s general meeting.

– SLB Capturi has reached significant industrial milestones with the hand-over of the modular carbon capture facility at Twence, and the award of an EPCIC contract for a Just Catch 400 unit to Hafslund Celsio.

Mainstream Renewable Power reports projects in South Africa progressing toward COD, and an improved commercial margin in the Andes portfolio:

– Two projects for a combined ~150 MW under construction in South Africa are progressing toward COD in Q2 2025 and early 2026.

– The commercial margin in the Andes portfolio in Chile showed continued positive development in Q4.

– Cost optimization initiatives are well underway targeting a ~65% decrease in payroll and overhead cost.

Aker Horizons Asset Development signed a term sheet for offtake from Narvik Green Ammonia (NGA), and is developing the Powered Land business:

– A term sheet for 150 ktpa offtake from NGA was signed with VNG.

– A collaboration agreement was signed with a major European utility targeting an ownership share in NGA post DG2.

– The Kvandal site in Northern Norway is ready-to-build with 230 MW for power intensive industries.

SuperNode is planning the full-scale testing of their superconducting technology this year:

– A full-scale prototype of SuperNode’s superconducting system is to be tested in the company’s own facility H1 2025.

– A first full-scale demo in a real TSO environment is to be conducted at the National Grid Deeside facility later in 2025.

Aker Horizons reports net capital employed to reflect a portfolio composed mainly of unlisted assets. Net capital employed includes Aker Horizons’ initial investment in the portfolio company, adjusted for any profit or loss and any additional investments, adjusted for foreign exchange fluctuations. As of the fourth quarter, Aker Horizons had NOK 2.4 billion net capital employed in ACC, NOK 2.5 billion in Mainstream, NOK 524 million in AAD, NOK 210 million in SuperNode and NOK 365 million in other assets.

The Q4 2024 presentation is attached.

Aker Horizons’ CEO Lars P. Sørvaag Sperre and CFO Kristoffer Dahlberg, and Mainstream’s CFO Julie Berg will present the main developments in the fourth quarter 2024 today at 08:30 CET, followed by a Q&A session. The presentation, which is open to all, will be held in English and will be webcast on Aker Horizons’ website: 
https://akerhorizons.com/investors 

For further information, please contact:
Jonas Gamre, Investor Relations, tel: +47 97 11 82 92, email: jonas.gamre@akerhorizons.com
Mats Ektvedt, Media, tel: +47 41 42 33 28, email: mats.ektvedt@corporatecommunications.no 

About Aker Horizons

Aker Horizons develops green energy and green industry to accelerate the transition to Net Zero. The company is active in renewable energy, carbon capture and sustainable industrial assets. As part of the Aker group, Aker Horizons applies industrial, technological and capital markets expertise with a planet-positive purpose to drive decarbonization globally. Aker Horizons is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and headquartered in Fornebu, Norway. Across its portfolio, the company is present on five continents. www.akerhorizons.com 

This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and is subject to the disclosure requirements in Regulation EU 596/2014 and the Norwegian Securities Trading Act § 5-12. This stock exchange announcement was published by Mats Ektvedt, Partner in Corporate Communications, on 13 February 2025 at 07:00 CET.

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Mission Critical Partners Announces Launch of its Justice Integration Hub in Support of the City of New Orleans

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The $30 million ARPA-funded initiative connects public-safety and justice agencies, accelerates case processing and improves service to the community.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Mission Critical Partners today announced the launch of its Justice Integration Hub in support of the city of New Orleans’ Justice Technology Modernization Program (JTMP). JTMP is a multiyear initiative that replaced several decades-old systems with a unified, cloud-based platform designed to improve public safety and access to justice by streamlining operations and strengthening transparency across the city and Orleans Parish criminal-justice ecosystem.

“The Justice Integration Hub is not just a technology milestone; it’s a fundamental shift in how justice is delivered,” said Darrin Reilly, president and CEO, Mission Critical Partners.

The Justice Integration Hub facilitates the seamless flow of information throughout the Parish’s complex criminal-justice ecosystem. Funded through a $30 million allocation from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), JTMP represents one of the most comprehensive justice technology overhauls in the country, modernizing and transforming more than 40 years of legacy infrastructure. The program integrates the area’s entire criminal justice ecosystem — including the New Orleans Police Department, Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office and Justice Center, District Attorney, Public Defender, Criminal District Court, and Clerk of Court — into a single, connected environment.

“The integration hub fundamentally changes how our justice agencies work together,” said Nathaniel Weaver, JTMP director. “Instead of information stopping at the boundaries between agencies, it can move securely in real time, allowing people to spend less time reentering data and more time making the decisions that move cases forward.”

From Fragmentation to Real-Time Coordination

For years, criminal-justice agencies in New Orleans and Orleans Parish operated on outdated, siloed systems that limited collaboration, slowed case processing, and created cross-department inefficiencies.

The Justice Enterprise Hub is built on Microsoft Azure and leverages a standardized enterprise data model aligned with national data-sharing models. A secure integration hub enables real-time data sharing across agencies, ensuring that critical information is accessible when and where it is needed.

Immediate Impact Across the Community

The Justice Enterprise Hub already is helping to deliver measurable improvements:

Patrol officers now have additional hours each week to spend in New Orleans communities and respond to emergencies due to more efficient digital arrest-processing workflows.Data sharing from the jail to the court facilitates automated creation of cases and scheduling of court appearances, saving approximately 6,000 hours of time clerks would spend on data entry.Faster information sharing between agencies is helping reduce hearing delays, streamline inmate transport coordination, and improve overall justice system efficiency. This significantly reduces incarceration costs and generates measurable operational savings.

A Foundation for the Future of Justice

With the core platform now fully operational, New Orleans and Orleans Parish are positioned to build on this foundation with advanced capabilities, including AI-assisted case processing, digital evidence management, and expanded state-level data integration.

“The Justice Integration Hub is not just a technology milestone; it’s a fundamental shift in how justice is delivered,” said Darrin Reilly, MCP’s president and CEO. “New Orleans and Orleans Parish now have a nation-leading, scalable, and future-ready system that enables agencies to work together more effectively and collaboratively to better serve the public. We look forward to bringing this solution to more communities across the nation.”

The system was implemented in four phases, following a competitive nationwide process that selected Mission Critical Partners and Major Services, a New Orleans-based IT consulting firm, to oversee JTMP’s development, implementation, and coordinated go-live activities across all participating agencies. Those four phases went live in succession, between November 2025 and April 2026.

About Mission Critical Partners (MCP)

Mission Critical Partners (MCP) is a leading provider of data integration, consulting, network, and cybersecurity solutions specializing in transforming mission-critical communications networks into integrated ecosystems that improve outcomes in the public-safety, justice, healthcare, transportation, and utility markets. Our comprehensive experience and vendor-agnostic approach help us develop modernized solutions that maximize value, improve efficiency, and mitigate risk. Additional information and career opportunities are available at MissionCriticalPartners.com.

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Morgan Sava, Mission Critical Partners, 1 608-658-8858, rscarpino@pipitone.com, https://www.missioncriticalpartners.com/

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MadeAi Launches Dossier Expert, Bringing Agentic AI to Formulary and Value Dossier Development

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New AI-powered solution transforms dossier creation and maintenance with source-level traceability, cross-functional collaboration, and up to 70% faster authoring and updates

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — MadeAi™, a leader in AI-enabled evidence synthesis and life sciences solutions, today announced the launch of MadeAi Dossier Expert, a new AI-powered solution designed to transform how pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations create, review, and maintain formulary and value dossiers.

Traditionally, developing AMCP dossiers, global value dossiers, and health technology assessment (HTA) submissions requires months of coordination across HEOR, Clinical, Market Access, and Medical Writing teams. Evidence is dispersed across multiple sources, citations require extensive manual verification, and updates often trigger lengthy rounds of rewriting and review.

Dossier Expert replaces this fragmented process with a living, evidence-linked document that evolves as the underlying science changes.

Built to address one of the most time-consuming challenges facing Market Access and HEOR teams, Dossier Expert brings evidence management, AI-assisted authoring, citation verification, and cross-functional collaboration into a single, continuously updated environment.

From Static Documents to Living Evidence

Unlike traditional dossier authoring approaches that focus primarily on accelerating initial drafts, Dossier Expert is designed to streamline the entire dossier lifecycle—from first creation through ongoing evidence updates.

Key capabilities include:

AI-Powered Dossier Generation: Create structured AMCP, HTA, and value dossiers using customizable templates and AI-generated, evidence-grounded content.One-Click Citation Verification: Trace every AI-generated claim directly to its source document, with the supporting passage highlighted for immediate verification.Intelligent Evidence Updates: Automatically identify sections affected by changes in underlying evidence and selectively regenerate outdated content without overwriting human edits.Integrated Evidence Hub: Organize and connect indexed source materials directly to relevant dossier sections.Integrated MadeAi-LR: Access AI-enabled literature review directly for in-platform literature review support.Seamless Collaboration: Enable HEOR, Clinical, Market Access, and Medical Writing teams to work within one document, with built-in commenting, assignments, approvals, and version control.Flexible, Submission-Ready Outputs: Export approved dossiers to Word or PDF.

Accelerating Market Access Without Compromising Scientific Rigor

Dossier Expert is designed to deliver up to 70% faster dossier authoring and updates, while reducing the manual effort associated with evidence verification, document management, and recurring revisions.

“Creating a dossier is only part of the challenge. Keeping it scientifically current, fully traceable, and aligned across multiple stakeholders is where organizations lose enormous amounts of time,” said Gaugarin Oliver, Founder and CEO of MadeAi. “With Dossier Expert, we’re moving beyond AI-generated first drafts to a fundamentally different model: a living dossier that connects every claim to its evidence, identifies what needs updating, and enables experts to focus on scientific judgment rather than document administration.”

By combining AI-powered efficiency with human oversight and transparent source verification, Dossier Expert helps life sciences organizations accelerate evidence communication while maintaining the rigor required for payer and HTA engagement.

Learn more about Dossier Expert at www.madeai.com.

About MadeAi

MadeAi™ is an award-winning AI-native evidence synthesis and life sciences solutions platform designed to help pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device organizations accelerate evidence generation and scientific communication. Combining advanced agentic AI capabilities with human expertise, MadeAi supports workflows across HEOR, Market Access, Medical Affairs, and RWE, delivering greater efficiency, transparency, and scientific rigor.

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Meghan Oates-Zalesky, MadeAi, 1 617 435 2470, meghan.oates@madeai.com, www.madeai.com

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Peloton Launches Peloton Broker to Streamline Early-Stage Land Acquisition for Energy Projects

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New tract-based pre-leasing tool joins the
Land Data Management solution in the Peloton Platform

CALGARY, AB, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Peloton, a provider of energy data management software, today announced the launch of Peloton Broker, a tract-based pre-leasing management tool built for energy projects. Peloton Broker gives brokers, consultants, land departments, and legal teams one place to handle ownership discovery, negotiation tracking, and title curative work, so they can move from prospect to signed lease without re-entering data or juggling separate systems.

Peloton Broker is part of Peloton’s Land Data Management solution in the Peloton Platform, alongside LandView, LandView Map, and Peloton Dashboards. It extends Peloton’s trusted foundation to the earliest stage of land acquisition, with pre-leasing work carrying straight into agreement-based lease management in LandView.

“The pre-leasing stage has always been where land data is most scattered, with ownership research in one place, negotiation notes in another, and title issues surfacing late,” said James Hatcher, Product Manager – Land Data Management at Peloton. “Peloton Broker brings that work into the Peloton Platform from day one, so land teams start every lease with a complete picture and the rest of the organization gets land data it can trust.”

Built for the start of the lease lifecycle

Peloton Broker helps land teams at oil and gas operators and renewable energy developers:

Track ownership at the tract level, covering both surface and mineral rightsManage negotiations in integrated workflows that record every offer, contact, and status changeCatch title concerns early with title curative support, before they hold up executionWork from the map with GIS-driven prospect management connected to LandView MapKeep audit-ready records with full traceability from first contact to executed lease

Connected across the Peloton Platform

The Peloton Platform is a SaaS solution hosted by Microsoft Azure that brings well, production, and land data together in one environment. With Peloton Broker on the platform, customers get:

A single source of truth. Land, operations, and finance teams work from the same accurate, up-to-date information, with master data such as business associates, wells, and units shared across products.Linked lifecycles. Land data ties into well and production data in WellView and ProdView, and integrates with third-party ERP and financial systems.Enterprise-grade security, backed by Peloton’s SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications.

Peloton Broker is available now. To learn more, visit peloton.com/products/land-data-management/broker.

About Peloton

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, and founded in 1991, Peloton created the energy industry’s original data management solution, and it remains the standard today. With more than three decades of industry expertise and over 700 clients globally, Peloton offers software across the well, production, and land lifecycles. The Peloton Platform brings all three together in one integrated SaaS environment, hosted by Microsoft Azure.

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