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High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems enable utilities to move more power further, efficiently integrate renewables, interconnect grids, and improve network performance. HVDC systems utilize power electronics technology to convert AC and DC voltage and are ideal for supporting existing systems or building new power highways.

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GE Vernova provides solutions that offer grid operators the ability to provide reactive power support, enhance controllability, improve stability and increase power transfer capability of AC transmission systems.

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GE Vernova offers solutions for a variety of substation projects and applications, including Modular Substation Automation Systems, utility and industrial substation projects, as well as DC substation solutions.

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The energy landscape today is changing, this is being led by the current industry trends of Decarbonization, Digitization, Decentralization and Electrification. Discover how GE Vernova is working with utility, consumer and industrial customers to design and deploy tailored Microgrid and Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Management solutions.

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Innovations to Decarbonize the Electrical Grid. GRiDEA is our portfolio of decarbonization solutions that empower grid operators to address their net-zero objectives.

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GE Vernova offers a wide range of transformer solutions for the utility, industrial, commercial, residential and energy markets. These solutions feature flexible, reliable and robust designs to support a wide range of applications. With units operating in some of the most demanding electrical environments around the world, GE Vernova designs and delivers transformer solutions that provide among the highest level of performance and reliability to meet rigorous operating requirements.

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GE Vernova provides GIS solutions from 50 kV to 800 kV, along with secondary products to maximize switchgear and network operation. The portfolio includes a full range of SF6 GIS as well as g3 (SF6-free) GIS at 145 kV and 420 kV voltage levels for utilities and industries worldwide.

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GE Vernova is one of the top circuit breaker suppliers in the world. Our products include a range of live tank circuit breakers (up to 800 kV), dead tank circuit breakers (up to 550 kV), as well as hybrid and compact switchgear assemblies. We also provide solutions for power generation applications with our generator circuit breakers for installations up to 1,500 MW.

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GE Vernova is a global market leader for disconnectors (disconnect switches) since 1960, with 8 product facilities in 7 countries and hundreds of thousands installations in more than 130 countries around the world. The portfolio includes disconnectors for AC applications (up to 1,200 kV), for DC applications (up to 1,000 kV) and for railway applications. We also offer power connectors to connect two or more conductors for a continuous electrical path.

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GE Vernova is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of high, medium and low voltage instrument transformers. With more than 100 years of experience, We offer a broad array of standard and high accuracy models for revenue metering and system protection applications. The portfolio of instrument transformers ranges from low voltage at 600 V suitable for industrial and high accuracy revenue metering, all the way up to high voltage at 1,200 kV. The portfolio also includes line traps and digital instrument transformers.

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For a century, utilities have relied on us to deliver electrical products and services to meet their quality, durability and performance needs. Our capacitor and reactor product lines are an integral part of our portfolio. We provide power capacitors that meet ANSI, IEEE and IEC standards, and our low voltage capacitors are UL listed. Ratings range from 1 kvar to 500 MVAR, and from 240 volts to 500 KV.

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GE Vernova provides a broad range of bushings and surge arresters to help protect electrical assets. The bushings portfolio includes AC and DC solutions that enable long life, high reliability and installation flexibility. GE’s Tranquell surge arresters are ideal for distribution and EHV applications up to 612kV, and are available as polymer and porcelain station and intermediate class IEEE/ANSI C62.11.

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Our SF₆-free switchgear range features the same ratings and same dimensional footprint as the state-of-the-art SF₆ equipment, with a drastically reduced carbon footprint.

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The collection of required asset condition data from the field on a large scale for GE Vernova and 3rd party electrical equipment is a key step in building a robust Asset Performance Management strategy. Grid Services specialists are constantly evaluating and implementing new innovative inspection technologies applying strict processes and methods. The digital inspections methods are designed to improve the efficiency of data collection, oil analysis and online monitoring. All new approaches to capture data are integrated into the EnergyAPM ecosystem for automatic data transfer.

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Energy costs are significant expenses for utilities and industries at large, particularly those that are energy-intensive or operate heavy machinery. Between 5% and 25%* of the expenses in these organizations are allocated to energy payments, with up to 15%** of this energy consumption being wasted during operations.

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GE Vernova offers a wide range of solutions to monitor and manage critical assets on the electrical grid, detect and diagnose issues and provide expert information and services to customers. Our asset monitoring and diagnostics portfolio includes solutions for single- and multi-gas transformer DGA, enhanced transformer solutions and switchgear monitoring, as well as software and services.

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GE Vernova's Grid Solutions business electrifies the world with advanced grid technologies and systems, enabling power transmission and distribution from the grid to homes, businesses, and industries effieciently and reliably.

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GridBeats™ is a portfolio of software-defined automation solutions for grid digitalization. The portfolio is designed to enable utilities and industrial customers to ensure a stable, efficient energy supply amidst the growing integration of renewable energy sources and aging infrastructure.

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GE Vernova's Critical Infrastructure Communications solutions deliver comprehensive networks that are designed to be secure, flexible, and tailored to meet customers' objectives and unique geographic requirements.

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GE Vernova's comprehensive portfolio of solutions for implementing and managing a substation.

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GE Vernova's Asset Lifecycle Management services combine a large set of methodologies to collect condition data off and online, consulting and asset optimization services using digital technology to improve the monitoring, recording and analysis of asset operations and predict asset behavior.

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GE’s innovative and high-quality services help maintain and optimize high-voltage electrical assets throughout their entire lifecycle. Leveraging the design and manufacturing knowledge of our engineers, the customized service solutions ensure substations and networks perform as planned. Experts deliver services for applications across the power system, keeping assets up-to-date, safe, reliable and efficient while improving customers’ return-on-investment.

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GE Vernova provides a full range of services & support tailored to meet a broad range of power system needs across utility and industrial applications. With deep domain knowledge and industry expertise GE’s service application engineers and technical specialists can help plan, design, operate, maintain, and modernize your protection, control, monitoring and automation systems.

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GE Vernova provides comprehensive services throughout the systems lifecycle. The services can be provided by our local team and with the support of our global Competence Centers when the equipment is installed, during the warranty period and beyond.

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Our technical experts are ready to equip customers with the knowledge needed to effectively manage their critical assets and systems, and increase their return on product investments. Our training courses are offered in a variety of ways, including online, onsite at customer locations, and in our state-of-the art training centers around the world.

GE Vernova provides a vast array of support and service offerings to help customers build, deploy, maintain and service their networks. Our highly skilled engineers and technicians provide front line support for customers across our product portfolio, including protection and control solutions, industrial communications networks, asset monitoring and diagnostics and software solutions.

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GE Vernova's Grid Solutions' Testing Laboratories enable manufacturers and end users to test their primary equipment by leveraging deep domain expertise and testing facilities, to develop enhanced high voltage products and certify their capabilities before market introductions.

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GE Vernova delivers materials and eco-design studies for high voltage solutions to accelerate insulation and environmental innovation. GE’s services provide the expertise and methods that enable new value to support customer engineering, sourcing, quality control and EHS activities.

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With the rapid digitalization of the grid, utility, power generation and industrial operators require cybersecurity solutions to monitor and protect grid asset and systems from increased severity and frequency of cyber attacks. GE Vernova adopted a “defense in depth” approach, providing innovative cybersecurity solutions designed to increase operational integrity, comply with regulations and control costs of security.

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Utilities today seek to create and connect new sources of power generation to meet growing global demand, while also managing grid reliability, costs and regulatory factors.

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Water is central not just to the economy, but to life. As a result, water treatment systems demand secure, dependable power to ensure process uptime. From the grid-connected substation to reliable electrical protection, control, and power quality metering, GE Vernova offers tailored solutions to keep critical plants operational and meet the unique needs of the water and wastewater industry.

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As power systems become increasingly interconnected and complex, utilities need solutions that optimize energy transmission and management while improving reliability.

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Data centers – and the information they store – are becoming increasingly integral to the way we live our lives every day. With rising demand also come rising costs. And more importantly, the information in these centers must remain secure while simultaneously accessible. We provide data centers with electrical infrastructure solutions from the input utility source to the IT server racks. This includes high-voltage switchgear and transformers, medium and low voltage electrical equipment, automatic transfer switches, switchboards, UPS systems, critical power PDUs, static transfer switches, and overhead busway. This chain of electrification products provides high quality and reliable products and services for the entire lifecycle of a data center.

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The oil and gas industry is evolving at a rate never seen before, facing shifting pricing levels, ever-changing regulatory requirements, and increased environmental consciousness. Through reliable, safe, and innovative solutions and a holistic service offering, GE Vernova can help the energy sector thrive in this changing reality.

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Modernizing and digitizing the distribution grid is imperative for utilities and customers to enhance power system stability and safety, while increasingly integrating distributed power and demand response.

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The industry is changing. Simultaneously, so are your utility’s needs. Operational effectiveness, power stability, and critical asset management are key priorities – whether in pulp and paper, steel, or data centers. GE’s holistic portfolio of products and services are designed with reliability, innovation, and sustainability at the forefront, helping you face the energy transition with ease.

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Mining companies require secure communications, efficient asset performance management, and dependable, innovative technology to protect their critical assets. GE Vernova offers a broad product portfolio to help you through each step of the mining process – safely and reliably.

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Utility & Industrial Substation Projects

Substation and electrical infrastructure projects for utility and industrial customers face a number of challenges in today's environment. Increasing demand and workload peaks, NERC and FERC regulations, and an aging workforce and infrastructure serve as drivers for outsourcing these complex projects.

GE serves these needs with a comprehensive range of products and services for substation and electrical grid projects that can be delivered as Engineered Equipment Packages (EEP), Engineer, Procure and Construct EPC) and support services.

Key Benefits
  • Extensive industry, technical and project management experience
  • Leading safety and on-site management record
  • On-time and on-budget delivery
  • Comprehensive integration capability
Green Field Substations
  • Utility
  • Renewables
  • Industrial
Substation Upgrade Programs
  • Transformer additions
  • Transformer change-outs
  • Breaker additions
  • Breaker change-outs
  • Ring bus expansions
  • Protection & control/SCADA upgrades
GE's advantage markets served Specialized applications
 
GE's Advantage

With more than a century of experience in the transmission and distribution industry, GE's projects team leverages their expertise to provide customers with a number of key benefits.

 

Extensive Experience

Deep domain knowledge and proven excellence in complex electrical projects results in increased customer confidence and reduced risk.

  • Designed and implemented over 1,700 substation projects
  • Lead engineering and project management professionals average more than 20 years industry experience
  • Experience with large, complex projects valued over $100M
  • Unique capability to execute technically complex upgrade projects

 

On-Time and On-Budget Delivery

Process rigor with seamless project execution and delivery produce streamlined, on-time and on-budget results.

  • 99% on-time completion to in-service date
  • Greater than 97% on-budget performance
  • 50% fewer change orders than industry average resulting in improved price forecasting and total cost of ownership


 

Industry Leading Safety and On-Site Management Record

Rigorous, best-in-class quality and process standards provide and promote a safe and secure work environment. This ensures systematic project execution, on-time completion of deliverables and the highest level of on-site safety.

  • Nearly 1.5 years of project site work without an OSHA
    recordable injury
  • Comprehensive safety program focused on awareness, training and prevention
 

Comprehensive Integration Capability

A full line of OEM equipment integrated via state-of-the-art 3D knowledge-based design tools provide optimized system designs.

  • Pioneered the use of 3D interactive tools that incorporate GE design experience into repeatable knowledge-based system to drive efficiency, quality and speed
  • Simplified and streamlined commercial offerings eliminate project and logistical complexities of multiple vendor projects
 
 
Markets Served

GE's Projects teams serve a number of different market verticals including:


  Transmission Substations

Utility Transmission Substations

GE leads the North American industry in successful completion of sophisticated and critical electric transmission projects varying from 69kV to 500kv. Typical project types include:

  • Greenfield substations
  • Capacity upgrades
  • Bay additions
  • Transformer and circuit breaker change-outs
  • Bus reconfiguration and expansion (BAAH, Ring Bus)
  • SCADA and protection and control upgrades

  Distribution Substations

Utility Distribution Substations

GE offers a wide variety of distribution substation solutions, varying from 12kV to 69kV, that incorporate the latest GE technologies and a modular design that allows for standardization and scalability to cover small, medium and large distribution substations upgrades. Typical project types include:

  • Greenfield substations
  • Transformer and circuit breaker change-outs
  • SCADA and protection and control upgrades

  Industrial Substations

Industrial Substations

GE's solution is specifically engineered to provide the highest reliability possible, including redundant service if required. GE has extensive design and construction experience in building new or upgrading existing industrial substations including:

  • Oil & Gas
  • LNG/Petrochemical
  • Metals & Mining
  • Steel/paper/cement

  Renewable Substations

Renewable Substations
(Wind & Solar)

GE provides Electrical Balance of Plant (EBoP) for wind and solar grid interconnect with a full line of solutions, products and services to support the development, design, installation and operations of renewable generation facilities. GE has designed and constructed nearly 10% of the wind generation connected to the North American grid.


 

Multi-year Upgrade Programs

GE provides multiyear programs to utilities and customers for a range of project types. A program approach is generally used for a group of projects that have a set criteria, common goals or anticipated results. For example, a customer may need to replace specific equipment or upgrade systems at multiple substations over an extended period of time. Typical project types can include:

  • Protection and control hardware upgrades
  • New or existing communications and SCADA upgrades
  • Replacement of specific switchyard equipment, including transformer and circuit breaker change-outs

 
Specialized Technology Applications

Gas Insulated Switchgear Substations

GE provides Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) Substations ranging from 69kV to 500kV for utilities and industrial customers with a full complement of primary and secondary equipment, services and solutions to build and retrofit electrical infrastructure. GE's compact and modular design minimizes the installation footprint.

 

IEC 61850 Process Bus Solution

With the unique Multilin™ HardFiber Brick solution, GE offers customers an alternative to traditional copper wired substation designs that significantly reduces installation costs. This enabling technology creates a reliable high-speed network with the ability to connect and transmit data from the substation to an Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) or Energy Management System (EMS). The Multilin HardFiber Brick solution complies to the IEC 61850 global industry standard

 

Modular Control Buildings

GE provides electric utility and industrial customers with Modular Control Buildings intended for use in transmission and distribution substations. The Modular Control Building is manufactured in a controlled environment. The panels are wired and cabled to an intertie box that accepts the field cables from the switchyard equipment. The entire building and panels are pretested at the factory and shipped to site to be set on piers or a slab foundation.