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.
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.
Substation and Electrical Infrastructure Projects for Utility and Industrial Customers.
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.
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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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, We design and delivers transformer solutions that provide among the highest level of performance and reliability to meet rigorous operating requirements.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. GE Vernova provides 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
GE Vernova's comprehensive portfolio of solutions for implementing and managing a substation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As power systems become increasingly interconnected and complex, utilities need solutions that optimize energy transmission and management while improving reliability.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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JPAX family
Packet-Switched Networking Solution for Teleprotection with Hybrid+ Transport Capabilities JPAX family is a purpose-built communications solution specifically designed for utility operations, providing the required security and dependability through layers of redundancy. The platform is based on MPLS-TP (Multi-protocol Label Switching with Transport Profile) technology that maintains deterministic performance through packet based communications providing utilities with increased efficiency and ease of integration. The JunglePAX platform employs an optimized version of MPLS-TP coupled with a SONET/SDH-transport layer to produce a converged communications platform to reliably transport 64 kbps, T1/E1 TDM and Ethernet services across an optical Wide-Area Network (WAN). With a flexible mix of WAN connectivity, access options, and with hardware redundancy on critical modules and control functions, the JunglePAX provide utilities a cost effective, single streamlined solution to better protect energy assets and improve system reliability. Key Benefits
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Both JunglePAX 10G WAN ports (1 & 2) now optionally support standard MPLS mode in addition to Hybrid mode as a user configurable option. Additionally, two out of four 1G WAN ports (4 & 6) now operate in standard MPLS mode (not user-configurable).
Use of standard MPLS mode allows for interoperability with foreign MPLS equipment and Ethernet microwave radio devices. Note that foreign MPLS and Ethernet radio devices generally don’t support the IEEE 802.3ae standard, which is used by JunglePAX as a basis for hybrid mode implementation. The 1G WAN ports 3 and 5 continue to support Hybrid mode only. Use of Hybrid mode continues to be advantageous in standalone JPAX network applications as it allows native, non-packetized TDM services and MPLS services to coexist on the same fiber.
The WAN ports in standard MPLS mode allows for tunneling JunglePAX NMS information through foreign packet-based devices/networks to ensure that all JunglePAX nodes are visible regardless of whether they are optically connected to each other or via foreign packet-based devices/network.
Introducing the xTDM Access Card for the JunglePAX Hybrid Packet & TDM platform that offers the best of both worlds. This add-on unit offers the flexibility to support both native TDM over Hybrid WAN ports as well as emulated T1/E1 signals over MPLS, making it extremely flexible for all customer applications.
This release also allows for establishing packetized point-to-point Nx64k services between xTDM-8A cards T, or T1E1-4A/CBUS-4A ports at the far end. Point-to-point Nx64k services between local xTDM-8A card and JIF-Share/CMUX/CDAX card residing at remote JMUX/TN1U/TN1Ue nodes are also supported via Evolution units.
The xTDM Access Card key features:
GE’s new Evolution Module (B86900-01) enables migration to MPLS ring-by-ring or node-by-node AND offering an upgrade opportunity to modernize hardware while preserving highly dependable SONET/SDH delay performance for critical services through deployment of JunglePAX Hybrid Mode. Evolution and Hybrid work together to ensure ongoing security and dependability across both SONET/SDH and MPLS planes.
1 Gigabit of Ethernet data can now be passed over the same 1G+ fiber link as SONET VT1.5 or SDH TU-1’s to enable full interoperability between JMUX/TN1U and JPAX.
GE's EnerVista INSIGHT Advanced NMS solution employs Smart Tile technology, replacing the existing Telenium Traffic Manager, to assist users build MPLS Tunnels, SONET/SDH VTU’s and Services. This approach employs a wizard-based engine that walks users through each of the unique build processes using a combination of maps, graphical services tools and optimizers to quickly achieve their desired outcomes.
Schedule a demonstration today to see the new GE EnerVista INSIGHT version 8.8.
Encryption of all MPLS traffic carried over the WAN is now supported. This is a licensed feature, allowing users to encrypt individual fiber optic segments on any of the 12 WAN JunglePAX ports. After enabling Encryption on both sides of a WAN link, public/private keys will automatically roll based on the administrator’s configuration (30 min to 200 hrs), or keys can be manually renewed on each segment via the Web User Interface.
Purpose-Built for Teleprotection and Superior Performance
Single Solution Converging and Simplifying Operations
Ruggedized with modular design lowering total cost of ownership
JunglePAX Overview
The JunglePAX platform is designed for utilities with critical utility communications in mind. GE’s JPAX offers a truly converged solution with security and dependability for all applications whether they are critical Teleprotection circuits or for less time-sensitive business IT needs. Security and Dependability ensure data will be delivered and received on time when an actual data packet is sent, and data will not be falsely received when no data was sent. Both are key performance requirements to ensure utility communications reliably operate at all times. JunglePAX equipment is
Hybrid+ Mode, for critical teleprotection where 1ms latency is too slow
JunglePAX Hybrid+ technology offers the best of both worlds by preserving SONET/SDH performance in a packet-switched network. This is achieved by adding an independent SONET/SDH layer alongside the MPLS-TP layer (without impacting its capacity) over the same optical WAN link. Use of this layer is optional and is intended for TDM-based relaying applications (C37.94, RS-232 Mirrored Bit, G.703 64k etc.) that are extremely delay sensitive.
Hybrid+ Technology found only in JunglePAX permits migration from SONET/SDH to Packet-transport technologies without compromising application performance, equipment reliability and network-wide availability.
Modernizing optical communications infrastructure without performance impact
Hybrid+ Technology found only in JunglePAX permits migration from SONET/SDH to Packet-transport technologies without compromising application performance, equipment reliability and network-wide availability.
What is Hybrid Transport Mode and why is it important?
Teleprotection Application
Utilities are concerned about the impact on critical infrastructure and damage or injury associated with a fault condition on the transmission network. Teleprotection is a critical utility application that enables protection devices to communicate in a coordinated, reliable and expeditious way. Distance or directional comparison relays that send tripping signals require deterministic communications with low propagation delay edge (substation) to edge (substation), often as low as within 8ms. The faster the tripping signal can be transmitted across network, the quicker the dangerous energized state can be removed. Due to their importance, tripping signals cannot tolerate network disturbances affecting availability, capacity, physical communication failures, maintenance related outages or security vulnerabilities.
JunglePAX Solution for Teleprotection
The JunglePAX platform has been designed for teleprotection applications with layers of redundancy to ensure there is no single point of weakness, industry leading protection switching within 3ms, and low end-to-end service latency within 1ms excluding propagation delay.
Below is a teleprotection application example, which walks through the sequence of events that the JunglePAX platform would perform to ensure that critical teleprotection circuits are delivered securely and dependably across the network.
Application Defined Networking
The Lentronics JunglePAX is ideal for power utility operations and IT applications, supporting the following typical applications:
Critical Operational Traffic (OT)
Essential Operational Traffic (EOT)
Critical Information Traffic (CIT)
Essential Information Traffic (EIT)
Application Example: Transmission Cable Fault
Transmission cable fault There is a transmission cable fault affecting the primary communication path
Fault detected Fault is detected by the protection relay
Tripping signal A tripping signal is sent to the JunglePAX platform
Fault detected and transmitted The JunglePAX in Substation 1 detects the primary transmission path fault
Teleprotection signal received The JunglePAX in Substation 2 detects the loss of the primary communications path and switches to the protected communications path within 3ms
Protection action Protection relay initiates the action to clear the fault
JunglePAX Components
The JunglePAX comprises of replaceable and hot swappable interface cards which ensure that the platform is easy to maintain. The flexible mix of client service cards provides utilities with a solution that addresses changing communications requirements.
Technical Specifications
MULTI-SERVICE PLATFORM | ||
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Purpose-built, modular in design with layers of redundancy | ||
Hot swap of all redundant components without service interruptions | ||
Utility hardened ensure security and dependability | ||
Non-blocking architecture | ||
WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) OPTIONS | ||
Optical WAN | Capacity | 24Gbps |
Number of 10G Optical WAN ports | 2, SFP+, (up to 80km) | |
Number of 1G Optical WAN ports | 4, SFP | |
NETWORK MANAGEMENT | ||
Management | Device management | embedded Management System (eMS) |
Network management | Optional Advanced NMS | |
High availability mode | 1+1 protected | |
Console port | USB | |
Inbound / Outbound interfaces | CLI, WebUI (HTTPS), SNMPv3 *, NetConf | |
PERFORMANCE | ||
CORE Hardware protection | 1+1, 20G bypass | |
Processors | Dual, Dedicated separately for Data (DP) & Management (eM) plane | |
Transport Protocol | MPLS-TP, RFC 5654 | |
Encapsulation | WAN-Interface Sublayer (WIS) (on/off) | |
Quality of service | IEEE 802.1p/q with priority queues and priority scheduling | |
Node transit delay | < 30 μs | |
Switching | Capacity | 66G |
Fabric | Redundant | |
Backplane | Passive | Yes |
Client services | TDM and Ethernet | TDM: Emulated TDM over PSN (CESoPSN,SAToP) Ethernet: E-Line, E-Tree and E-LAN Ethernet Virtual Connections, configurable max frame size (up to 12,000 bytes), 32k MAC addresses per node |
Packetizer | T1/E1/CBUS TDM ports | 8 |
Synchronization | WAN Synchronization method | SyncE |
Internal Modes | Headend with SSM, Freerun | |
Accuracy | 4.6ppm | |
External modes | 2KHz, 10MHz, 1PPS, GPS * | |
Quality | SSM, ESMC * | |
Timing | Timing Protocols | NTP, IEEE 1588v2 (telecom and power) * |
Accuracy | 1us, Grandmaster (1588v2) * | |
OAM | Fault Detection | LDI, 256 HW-assisted BFD per CORE |
Protection Switching | 1+1: <3 ms on fiber break, ~0 ms on CORE module extraction 1:1: <16 ms on fiber break, <50 ms on CORE module extraction |
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SECURITY | ||
Security | EtherWAN encryption engine | 6 independent encryption engines, Optionally enabled on each WAN port * |
Encryption | AES 256 | |
Authentication | SHA 256 | |
Key distribution | Public/Private, User configurable rolling key frequency * | |
Access Control | Role-based | |
User Authentication | RADIUS | |
Accounting | Syslog (local) | |
Federal Information Processing Standard | 140-2 | |
CERTIFICATION | ||
Industry Compliance | SAFETY, UL, EU, CSA | UL 60950-1, ETSI EN/IEC 60950-1, CAN/CSA C22.2, RCM (Australia) |
Conducted and Radiated emissions | FCC Part 15B, CISPR/EN 55022, EN 300 386, VCCI, AS/NZS CISPR 22, CNS13438, and KN 22 | |
Immunity | EN 55024, EN 300 386 and KN 24 | |
Power Substation | IEEE 1613 (no cooling fans) | |
Hardening | IEEE 1613 (no cooling fans), SWC, EMI, RFI & ESD | |
Environmental | Operating Temperature | -20°C to + 60°C |
Storage Temperature | -40°C to +70°C, IEC60068-2 | |
Humidity, %RH | 5 - 95%, non-condensing | |
Altitude | 3000m | |
Earthquake | NEBS ITL GR-63-CORE Issue 4* | |
RoHS | RoHS / WEEE | |
POWER MANAGEMENT | ||
Power | DC | 48/130 VDC (ungrounded or +ve grounded), isolated inputs, hot swappable |
AC | 120/240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, hot swappable | |
Redundant | Yes | |
Consumption | 160W, Overcurrent protection at 180W per power supply | |
ACCESS CARD INTERFACES | ||
Access Card interfaces | Number of Access slots | 16 |
Hot swappable | Yes | |
4 x GigE slots | 3 | |
EF-4A | 4 x 1G/FE fiber ports, SFP, per-port configurable native VLAN ID | |
EC-4A | 4 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper ports, RJ-45, per-port configurable native VLAN ID | |
GigE slots | 6, using EF-4A and EC-4A units | |
TDM slots | 4 (16 if xTDM-8A cards are used) | |
T1E1-4A | 4 x T1/E1 ports, RJ-48c, G.704, G.706, G.826 E1 formats: PCM30/CAS, PCM31/CCS, Unframed |
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CBUS-4A card | 4x CBUS ports, RJ-48C | xTDM-8A | 8 x T1/E1 ports (G.704, G.706, G.826) or 4 x CBUS ports, RJ-48c * |
64kbps slots | 10 | |
C3794-1A | 1 x IEEE C37.94, mmf/smf, N x 64 kbps (N=1…12), SFP, LC connector | |
C3794-4A | 4 x IEEE C37.94, mmf/smf, N x 64 kbps (N=1…12), SFP, LC connector | |
DR-1A | 1 x RS-232/V.24/V.28 (up to 38.4 kbps) or 1x G.703 64 kbps codirectional | |
DR-4A | 4 x RS-232/V.24/V.28 (up to 38.4 kbps) or 1 x G.703 64 kbps codirectional | |
G703D-4A | 4 x G.703 64 kbps codirectional | |
DTT-2A | 2 x DTT Tx/Rx @48VDC. 130VDC, 250VDC | |
SIZE | ||
Size | Shelf | 19” (48.26cm) W ; 16.32” (41.45 cm) L ; 3.49" (8.86cm) H |
Spacing | 1RU above and below for circulation | |
ACCESS CARD COMPATIBILITY | ||
Lentronics Access cards compatible with JPAX via the CBUS port |
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IT and OT applications have traditionally operated independently over disparate networks, each serving the utility networking groups differently. IT and OT-centric applications can remain separated (i.e., metering from protection) although converged application can share the same space, generating opportunities for utilities to improve OPEX and CAPEX through elimination of redundancy and simplification initiatives.
More components within utility systems are becoming intelligent and requiring new communication connections and functions, generating demand for:
GE and Ribbon Communications have partnered producing an optimized proposition for utilities requiring more from their network. This solution will protect people and critical assets, scaling across the entire communications landscape with information assurance as traffic flows securely across network boundaries.