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.
Innovations to Decarbonize the Electrical Grid. GRiDEA is our portfolio of decarbonization solutions that empower grid operators to address their net-zero objectives.
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.
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.
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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High Voltage CapacitorsIncrease Capacity, Stability & Power QualityGE's high voltage capacitors provide simple and reliable reactive power to improve system performance, quality and efficiency. They are designed and manufactured using advanced technology and high-quality materials, and are all-film dielectric units impregnated with biodegradable dielectric liquid. GE’s high voltage capacitor portfolio includes internally fused, externally fused and fuseless capacitors available in ratings of 25 to 1,100 kVAR for single-phase units, and 300 to 400 kVAR for three-phase units at 2.4 kV to 25 kV. The units can be designed to meet IEC 60871, IEEE 18 and CSA C22.2 standards. A variety of industries can benefit from using high voltage capacitors for increased capacity, stability and power quality, including applications for power generation, transmission and distribution, as well as power consumers in oil and gas and infrastructure. |
GE provides solutions for high voltage PFC (Power Factor Control) and filtering. GE’s high voltage capacitor bank equipment is offered in three primary types of fusing schemes: internally fused, externally fused and fuseless. GE can analyze your network thoroughly and help you to choose the design that best fits your specific requirements.
Typical passive solutionsShunt bank capacitor bank provided optionally with accessories including surge current limiting reactors and switches. Detuned filter is a power factor solution for networks with harmonics. Series connected capacitor bank and reactor increase the impedance of the circuit at network harmonics reducing capacitor overload. Tuned harmonic filter provides power factor solutions at fundamental frequency and filters harmonics at a specific frequency. Series connected capacitor bank and reactor create a low impedance path for specific network harmonic(s). For more information on our shunt bank, detuned filter & tuned harmonic filter solutions, view the brochure and application guide. Mechanically Switched Capacitor with Damped Network (MSCDN) mitigates undesired network resonances by adding a damping circuit in series with a capacitor bank. For more information view the brochure. |
Open rack equipmentOpen stack rack capacitor banks are applicable where a large amount of reactive power is required at high voltage. Capacitors and auxiliary equipment are installed in welded aluminum or galvanized steel racks and shipped ready for field installation. Features:
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Pole mounted equipmentGE’s pole mounted capacitor products are pre-wired, factory assembled and shipped ready for installation with single-phase capacitor units. Racks are made of welded structural aluminum suitable for mounting switches, junction box, cable assembly, lightning arresters and/or potential transformers. Features:
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Metal enclosed capacitor banksGE’s metal enclosed capacitor banks provide modular small footprint solution for power factor controlling and harmonic filtering at medium voltages. Capacitors, reactors and auxiliary equipment are installed in a welded galvaneal enclosure and shipped ready for installation. Banks are designed to meet extreme conditions from marine conditions to desert and from artic to tropic. Features:
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Fixed medium voltage PFCGE’s High Voltage WeatherTight (HWT) capacitor banks are suitable for use on primary circuits where small amounts of kVAR are required. They may be installed at various load centers or directly at the terminals of 2300 and 4000 volt motors. Equipment is suitable for indoor and outdoor applications. Features:
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HVDC / FACTS applicationsGE’s HV reactive power compensation solutions have extensive experience in FACTS and HVDC, with a large installation base on both. Needs for compensation and filtering equipment in these solutions vary depending on overall design of the equipment, and is typically a combination of different kinds of capacitor banks and filters including:
Visit GE’s FACTS and HVDC webpages for more information on these solutions for challenges that the modern power grid faces today.
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GE’s surge capacitors protect the winding insulation of medium voltage rotating machines and transformers exposed to transient overvoltage or surges. GE’s non-PCB power capacitor is an environmentally acceptable product with superior performance and reliability. GE’s protective capacitors contain an all film dielectric system and hermetically sealed bushings, which permits flexible mounting configurations.
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Applications for power generation, renewable generation and offshore wind farms:
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Applications for buildings and cities, oil and gas, and industry and infrastructure:
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GE provides HV capacitor solutions and support to +1,000 customers in 80 countries. With more than 50 years of experience, GE is an industry leader with its all-film, extended foil design and robust manufacturing process. Our capacitors are installed globally in a variety of environmental conditions including extreme temperatures, highly corrosive dessert and offshore environments, and high level seismic zones. Below are a selected representation of our projects, a complete reference list is available upon request.
1. Canada (2013) | 5. Chile (2017) | 9. Germany (2013 - 2018) | 13. Saudi Arabia (2016) |
2. USA (2014) | 6. Canada (2017 -2018) | 10. Nigeria (2014) | 14. South Korea (2016) |
3. USA (2010) | 7. Canada (2014) | 11. Namibia (2016) | 15. Hong Kong/ China (2012) |
4. Brazil (2012) | 8. Scotland (2015) | 12. Russia (2007) | 16. Australia (2015) |