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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, We design 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. 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.

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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.

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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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GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions business delivers timely and sustainable power supply solutions to the data center ecosystem through early engagement, proven knowledge, and global experience.
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Faster power from grid to rack

Are you facing challenges with grid connectivity? Grid integration is challenging, whether the substation is owned by you or the grid. Our turnkey substation solutions for data centers simplify integration and speed up power delivery from grid to rack.

Flexible Configurations

Integrate various types of power in either grid-tied or remote microgrid configuration through solutions and services for turnkey data center substation projects that can be as Engineered Equipment Packages (EEPs), Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contracts.

Accelerate Grid Connectivity

With deep domain knowledge and expertise in data center substation projects, our data center solutions ensure streamlined, on-time, and on-budget project execution.

Reducing Carbon emissions

High-voltage SF6-free products aimed at decarbonizing the electrical grid and energy efficiency solutions to support the transition to sustainable data center operation.

Reliability and availability

Enhanced power reliability and availability on both sides of the meter through digital substation monitoring and real-time electrical network optimization using AI, machine learning, and digital twins.

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1050 TWh

Projected global electricity consumption of data centers by 2026*

$212 B

Expected hyperscale data center market*

~260 TWh

Projected US electricity consumption of data centers by 2026*

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1050 TWh

Projected global electricity consumption of data centers by 2026*

$212 B

Expected hyperscale data center market*

~260 TWh

Projected US electricity consumption of data centers by 2026*

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*Data from International Energy Agency

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Power Monitoring

Effective load management in grid-connected or islanded mode with our Advanced Automation Solutions, including Microgrid and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) management. Improve system stability and minimize downtime with the Fast Load Shedding solution.

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Energy Efficiency

Consolidate data from various source devices for real-time energy monitoring. Leverage advanced algorithms to enable real-time decision making and optimize energy management with our Energy Efficiency Software (EES).

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Motor Health Management

Increase availability of your cooling system with Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) and Machine Learning algorithms, to provide early detection of abnormalities and avoid process disruption from critical failures of cooling motors by using the Motor Health Management solution.

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Data center Asset Performance

GE Vernova’s GridBeatsTM Energy Asset Performance Management (EnergyAPM) solution gives you complete visibility into asset health with predictive and prescriptive failure detection, enabling smarter, more efficient maintenance strategies.

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Digital Relays

Protect switchgear with our digital relays and reduce downtime with advanced diagnostics and predictive maintenance features. Our metering solutions improve power quality through cost-saving solutions like harmonics monitoring and voltage balance.

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Turnkey substation

GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions business offers comprehensive project services covering the full scope of engineering and design for high-voltage data center substations. Through flexible service agreements, we collaborate with data center operators and utility providers to optimize data center electrical infrastructure and maximize the performance of their substations and network assets. Our approach ensures efficient data center power management, balancing performance, investment, and predictable costs.

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High-voltage equipment

Grid Solutions at GE Vernova provides a complete range of high-voltage equipment for data center substations Our GRiDEA portfolio features SF6-free switchgear to help both utilities and data centers decarbonize their operations. Our extensive portfolio range spans power and distribution transformers to circuit breakers; disconnectors (switches); instrument transformers; to monitoring devices and associated asset performance management.

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Digital Substation

Enhance system awareness and improve reliability by converting analog data to digital with GE Vernova’s digital substation solutions.

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As data centers look to make their operations more sustainable, GE Vernova's Energy Storage Solutions can help you increase the dispatchability and predictability of renewables on both sides of the meter.

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Learn more about electrification solutions for data centers

Explain the distinction of front-of- the-meter and behind-the-meter as it relates to data center power consumption:

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In Front-of-the-Meter:

This refers to the electricity usage a data center consumes directly from the utility grid, before passing through the energy meter. Data centers purchase power at standard commercial rates and rely on the grid for consistent power, with limited control over energy sourcing and pricing.

Behind-the-Meter:

This involves data center energy management and power generation systems located within the facility, independent of the grid. Data centers may use renewable energy, batteries, or backup power systems for greater control over energy usage, leading to cost savings and improved resilience during outages.

Key Distinctions:
  • Energy Source: "In front-of-the-meter" uses grid power "behind-the-meter" uses internal energy systems.
  • Control: Data centers have more autonomy with "behind-the-meter" energy management, while "in front-of-the-meter" relies on external sources.
  • Cost Efficiency: "Behind-the-meter" systems can optimize power consumption, bypass utility fees, and improve sustainability through renewable energy and backup power solutions.

Combining both strategies can improve energy management and reliability, depending on the data center’s location and access to power infrastructure, such as a data center substation.

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How can data center power their operations more sustainably?

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Data centers can power their operations more sustainably by optimizing electricity usage through advanced energy management systems, such as integrating renewable energy sources like solar or wind. Implementing data center electrical infrastructure with backup power options, like batteries, improves reliability while reducing reliance on the grid. Combining on-site generation with grid power from a data center substation balances sustainability and reliability for continuous operations.

Islanded microgrid solutions allow data centers to operate independently from the grid, using on-site generation to manage data center power autonomously, further enhancing sustainability. GE Vernova's microgrid solutions can help lower you blended levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and generate added revenue.

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How does grid congestion affect the performance of data centers?

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Grid congestion can negatively impact data centers by limiting the availability and stability of data center power. This can lead to an increased risk of downtime, higher energy costs and could limit the expansion of a data center.

Increased Risk of Downtime: Grid congestion can lead to power interruptions or reduced availability, directly impacting data center reliability and uptime. Even short disruptions can be costly and affect service quality.

Higher Energy Costs: Congestion often leads to increased electricity prices due to limited transmission capacity and higher demand, driving up operational expenses for data centers.

Delayed Expansion: Data centers relying on congested grid areas may face delays in expanding operations or connecting new facilities due to limited power availability and regulatory constraints. Grid congestion can also limit the ability of data centers to incorporate renewable energy sources, as excess generation might not be effectively transmitted or used.

STATCOM systems mitigate these challenges by providing real-time reactive power compensation, stabilizing voltage levels, and improving overall power quality. GE Vernova’s FACTSFLEX GFMe grid-forming STATCOM solution can be used to smooth the high variable load of data center. This improves the network quality and mitigates impact of congestion to the data centers. It also enhances the grid's ability to handle higher power loads and supports the integration of renewables, helping data centers maintain reliable, efficient operations even in congested areas.

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How does power quality affect data center performance?

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Power quality issues, such as voltage sags, surges, and harmonic distortions, can significantly impact data centers by causing equipment malfunctions, system failures, and unplanned downtime. Poor power quality increases wear on equipment, reduces efficiency in energy management, and may trigger the use of the data center’s backup power.

Grid energy storage solutions can help address these issues by providing rapid-response power conditioning and backup energy support. They stabilize voltage levels, mitigate fluctuations, and ensure consistent power delivery, enhancing the reliability and resilience of data center operations.

Maintaining stable voltage levels is crucial for consistent performance. Medium voltage STATCOM (Static Synchronous Compensator) solutions help by providing real-time reactive power support and voltage regulation. This ensures stable power quality, optimizes the integration of on-site generation, and maintains reliable operation even during load changes or grid disturbances.

What are the benefits of a microgrid for data center operation?

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A microgrid benefits data center operations by providing localized control over data center electricity usage, improving data center energy management and reducing dependency on the main grid. It ensures reliable power by incorporating renewable energy sources and offering efficient data center backup power during outages. Additionally, integrating with a data center substation, a microgrid enhances power reliability and sustainability, lowering operational costs and increasing resilience.

A critical element of microgrid management load balancing between the energy produced and the energy consumed.

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Hear from our experts

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As the data center market continues to expand, we continue to be seen as a partner in the data center ecosystem and continue to collaborate proactively with customers facing supply chain challenges. GE Vernova is committed to helping accelerate data center customer project cycles and helping them stay on budget and schedule.
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Claudia Blanco
Chief Innovation Officer, GE Vernova
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GE Vernova has deep domain expertise to help accelerate delivery of power to data centers. The data center electrical infrastructure is critical to stable operation. Our turnkey data center substation solutions help provide a single “1-stop shop” approach eliminating project and logistical complexities of multiple vendor projects.
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Mandar Pandit
Chief Strategy & Growth Officer, GE Vernova
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As AI advances, data centers face rising energy demands—and the challenge of meeting them sustainably. This is why, at GE Vernova, we engage with data center operators and customers early in their journey, to understand their needs, customize solutions to electrify their assets, and solve their challenges.
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Hassina Saad
Global Industry Segment Leader, GE Vernova
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