NextDecade Corp

(unaudited)

Note 1 —Background and Basis of Presentation

NextDecade Corporation, a Delaware corporation, is a Houston-based energy company primarily engaged in construction and development activities related to the liquefaction of natural gas and sale of LNG and the capture and storage of CO 2 emissions. We are constructing and developing a natural gas liquefaction and export facility located in the Rio Grande Valley near Brownsville, Texas (the “Rio Grande LNG Facility”).

The Rio Grande LNG Facility has received Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) approval and Department of Energy (“DOE”) FTA and non-FTA authorizations for the construction of up tofive liquefaction trains and LNG exports totaling up to 27 million tonnes per annum (“MTPA”). The Rio Grande LNG Facility hasthree liquefaction trains and related infrastructure (“Phase 1”) under construction, train 4 has achieved substantial commercial progress and is being advanced toward a final investment decision (“FID”), and train 5 is being commercialized. We are also developing and beginning the permitting process for expansion trains 6 through 8 at the Rio Grande LNG Facility and developing a potential carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) project at the Rio Grande LNG Facility.

In March 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a revision to its August 2024 decision regarding our FERC order, resulting in a remand without vacatur of the FERC order for the first five liquefaction trains at the Rio Grande LNG Facility.

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and disclosures required by GAAP for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. In our opinion, all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring items, which are considered necessary for a fair presentation of the unaudited consolidated financial statements, have been included. The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full year.

Certain reclassifications have been made to conform prior period information to the current presentation. The reclassifications did not have a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Note 2 —Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment consisted of the following (in thousands):

Note 3 —Derivatives

In July 2023, Rio Grande entered into interest rate swaps agreements (the “Swaps”) to protect against interest rate volatility by hedging a portion of the floating-rate interest payments associated with the credit facilities described in Note 6 — Debt.

As of March 31, 2025, Rio Grande has the following Swaps outstanding (in thousands):

(1) Swaps have an early mandatory termination date in July 2030.

The Company values the Swaps using an income-based approach based on observable inputs to the valuation model including interest rate curves, risk adjusted discount rates, credit spreads and other relevant data. The net fair value of the Swaps is approximately $317.5 million as of March 31, 2025, and is classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.

Note 4 —Leases

The Company commenced the Rio Grande LNG Facility site lease on July 12, 2023 and it has an initial term of 30 years. The Company has the option to renew and extend the term of the lease for up totwo consecutive renewal periods often years each, but as the Company is not reasonably certain that those options will be exercised, none are recognized as part of our right of use assets and lease liabilities. The Company has also entered into an office space lease which expires on December 31, 2035, and does not include any options for renewal.

For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, our operating lease costs were $2.5 million and $3.0 million, respectively. For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, we paid approximately $1.9 million and $2.1 million, respectively, in cash for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities, all of which are presented within operating cash flows.

Maturity of operating lease liabilities as of March 31, 2025 are as follows (in thousands, except lease term and discount rate):

Note 5 —Accrued Liabilities and Other Current Liabilities

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):

Note 6 —Debt

Debt consisted of the following (in thousands):

Senior Secured Notes and Loans

The 6.67% Senior Secured Notes,6.85% Senior Secured Notes and 6.58% Senior Secured Notes (collectively, the “Senior Secured Notes”) as well as the 6.72% Senior Secured Loans and 7.11% Senior Secured Loans (collectively, the “Senior Secured Loans”) are senior secured obligations of Rio Grande, ranking senior in right of payment to any and all of Rio Grande’s future indebtedness that is subordinated to the Senior Secured Notes and the Senior Secured Loans, and equal in right of payment with Rio Grande’s other existing and future indebtedness that is senior and secured by the same collateral securing the Senior Secured Notes and Senior Secured Loans. The Senior Secured Notes and Senior Secured Loans are secured on a first-priority basis by a security interest in all of the membership interests in Rio Grande and substantially all of Rio Grande’s assets, on a pari passu basis with the CD Credit Agreement and the TCF Credit Facility.

Corporate Credit Agreement

Under the terms of the Corporate Credit Agreement, the Company may elect to add to the outstanding principal as paid-in-kind interest with respect to the first eight interest payment dates and may elect 50% as paid-in-kind interest of each interest payment date thereafter.

The Company may prepay the principal of the Corporate Credit Agreement, plus any unpaid interest, as follows:

In conjunction with the Corporate Credit Agreement, we issued to the lender warrants to purchase 7.2 million shares of our common stock (the “Warrants”). For additional details about the Warrants, refer to Note 8, Stockholders' Equity.

Credit Facilities

Below is a summary of our committed credit facilities outstanding as of March 31, 2025 (in thousands):

The obligations of Rio Grande under the CD Senior Working Capital Facility and CD Credit Facility are secured by substantially all of the assets of Rio Grande as well as a pledge of all of the membership interests in Rio Grande on a first-priority, pari passu basis with the Senior Secured Notes, the Senior Secured Loans and the loans made under the TCF Credit Facility.

The obligations of Rio Grande under the TCF Credit Agreement are secured by substantially all of the assets of Rio Grande as well as a pledge of all of the membership interests in Rio Grande on a first-priority, pari passu basis with the Senior Secured Notes, the Senior Secured Loans and the loans made under the CD Credit Agreement. Total Energies Holdings SAS provides contingent credit support to the lenders under the TCF Credit Agreement to pay past due amounts owing from Rio Grande under the agreement upon demand.

Restrictive Debt Covenants

The CD Credit Facility and the TCF Credit Facility (collectively, the “Rio Grande Facilities”) include certain covenants and events of default customary for project financings, including a requirement that interest rates for a minimum of 75% of the projected and outstanding principal amount be hedged or have fixed interest rates. The Rio Grande Facilities, the Senior Secured Loans, and Senior Secured Notes require Rio Grande to maintain a historical debt service coverage ratio of at least 1.10:1.00 at the end of each fiscal quarter starting from the initial principal payment date.

With respect to certain events, including a change of control event and receipt of certain proceeds from asset sales, events of loss or liquidated damages, the Senior Secured Notes and Senior Secured Loans require Rio Grande to make an offer to repay the amounts outstanding at 101% (with respect to a change of control event) or par (with respect to each other event).

The Corporate Credit Agreement permits subsidiaries of Super Holdings to incur indebtedness to fund project-level equity in support of the construction of trains 4 and 5 of the Rio Grande LNG Facility, subject to the terms and conditions provided therein, including that Super Holdings make an offer to prepay the Corporate Credit Agreement in full at par plus accrued and unpaid interest.

As of March 31, 2025, the Company was in compliance with all covenants related to its respective debt agreements.

Interest Expense

Total interest expense, net of capitalized interest, consisted of the following (in thousands):

Fair Value Disclosures

The following table shows the carrying amount and estimated fair value of our debt (in thousands):

The fair value of the Senior Secured Notes, Senior Secured Loans and Corporate Credit Agreement was calculated based on inputs that are observable in the market or that could be derived from, or corroborated with, observable market data, including interest rates on debt issued by parties with comparable credit ratings.

The fair value of the CD Credit Facility, TCF Credit Facility and Corporate Credit Facility approximates its respective carrying amount due to its variable interest rate, which approximates a market interest rate.

Note 7 —Variable Interest Entity

Intermediate Holdings and its wholly owned subsidiaries, including Rio Grande, have been formed to undertake construction and operation of Phase 1 of the Rio Grande LNG Facility. The Company is not obligated to fund losses of Intermediate Holdings, however, the Company’s capital account, which would be considered in allocating the net assets of Intermediate Holdings were it to be liquidated, continues to share in losses of Intermediate Holdings. Further, Rio Grande has granted the Company decision-making rights regarding the construction of Phase 1 of the Rio Grande LNG Facility and key aspects of its operation, which may only be terminated by equity holders for cause, via agreements with NextDecade LLC. Due to the foregoing, the Company determined that it holds a variable interest in Rio Grande through Intermediate Holdings and is its primary beneficiary, and therefore consolidates Intermediate Holdings in these Consolidated Financial Statements.

The following table presents the summarized assets and liabilities (in thousands) of Intermediate Holdings, which are included in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets. The assets in the table below may only be used to settle the obligations of Intermediate Holdings. In addition, there is no recourse to us for the consolidated VIE’s liabilities. The assets and liabilities in the table below include assets and liabilities of Intermediate Holdings only and exclude intercompany balances between Intermediate Holdings and NextDecade, which are eliminated in the Consolidated Financial Statements of NextDecade.

Note 8 —Stockholders' Equity

The Warrants were issued intwo tranches giving the lender the right to purchase up to approximately 3.6 million shares of our common stock at $7.15 per share (“Tranche A”) and an additional approximately 3.6 million shares of our common stock at $9.30 per share (“Tranche B”). The Warrants may be exercised by the holder solely on a cashless exercise basis at any time prior to December 31, 2029.

The Company, at its discretion, may cause Tranche A to be exercised on a cash exercise basis (i) on any date between June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2026, if the 30-day volume weighted average trading price (“VWAP”) of the Company equals or exceeds $13.50 per share and the closing price for the Company's common stock exceeds such VWAP immediately prior to the date of exercise, or (ii) on any date between January 1, 2027 and July 1, 2027, if the P30D-day VWAP for the Company's common stock equals or exceeds $15.00 per share and the closing price of the Company's common stock exceeds such VWAP immediately prior to the date of exercise, provided that in each case (a) an affirmative FID on train 4 of the Rio Grande LNG Facility has been taken and (b) certain liquidity conditions regarding the holders ability to sell the shares of the Company's common stock have been met.

The Warrants have been excluded from the computation of diluted loss per share for the three months ended March 31, 2025 because including them in the computation would have been antidilutive for the period presented.

Note 9 —Share-based Compensation

The Company has granted restricted stock and restricted stock units (collectively, “Restricted Stock”), as well as unrestricted stock and stock options, to employees, directors and outside consultants under the 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2017 Plan”). Upon the vesting of Restricted Stock, shares of common stock are released to the grantee.

As of March 31, 2025, we had approximately 8.4 million shares of service-based and approximately 4.3 million shares of performance-based Restricted Stock outstanding. Further, the approximately 12.7 million shares of Restricted Stock, as well as approximately 1.5 million stock options outstanding, have been excluded from the computation of diluted loss per share for the three months ended March 31, 2025 because including them in the computation would have been antidilutive for the period presented.

For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized approximately $6.6 million and $4.4 million, respectively, of share-based compensation expense related to all share-based awards.

Note 10 —Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

From time to time the Company may be subject to various claims and legal actions that arise in the ordinary course of business. As of March 31, 2025, management is not aware of any claims or legal actions against the Company that, separately or in the aggregate, are likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows, although the Company cannot guarantee that a material adverse effect will not occur.

Note 11 —Supplemental Cash Flows

The following table provides supplemental disclosure of cash flow information (in thousands):