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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 11, 2023

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Cheniere Energy, Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “2023 Annual Meeting”) on May 11, 2023. There were 202,240,961 shares of the Company's common stock present or represented by proxy at the 2023 Annual Meeting. This represented approximately 83.05% of the Company's shares of common stock outstanding as of the record date of the 2023 Annual Meeting. Four proposals, as described in the Company's Proxy Statement dated April 10, 2023 (the “2023 Proxy Statement”), were voted upon at the 2023 Annual Meeting. The following is a brief description of the matters voted upon and the final voting results.

Each of the director nominees was elected as a director to serve for a one-year term until the 2024 annual meeting of shareholders or until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified.

In an advisory and non-binding vote, the shareholders approved the compensation paid for 2022 to the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the 2023 Proxy Statement.

In an advisory and non-binding vote, the shareholders approved holding annual advisory votes on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers. In light of these results and consistent with the Board’s recommendation in the 2023 Proxy Statement, the Company will hold a non-binding advisory vote on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers annually until the next shareholder vote on the frequency of such vote.

The shareholders ratified the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2023.

No vote is being reported for the shareholder proposal regarding climate change risk analysis that was included in the 2023 Proxy Statement because it was not presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting by the shareholder proponent or a representative of the shareholder proponent as required, and therefore, was not acted upon by the shareholders.

    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.