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.
EPM 9900P
High Performance Power Quality and Transient Recorder MeterThe Multilin™ EPM 9900P is one of Multilin’s most advanced power quality meters and provides comprehensive perspective of energy usage; capture of power quality events and easy integration with support for multiple protocols to provide key decision making and monitoring information for critical energy circuits in utility substation or industrial applications. Key Benefits
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Communications
Measuring and Metering
The EPM 9900P provides revenue accuracy for energy monitoring and high performance power quality analysis functions including harmonics, flicker and transient waveform capture. Power quality reporting data is collected in compliance with IEC 61000-4-30 Class A and EN 50160 international standards providing users a deep understanding in a variety of utility or industrial applications.
With up to 4GB of data logging, including 50 MHz transient capture, the EPM 9900P ensures that essential power quality data and events are captured, stored, and time synchronized allowing for comprehensive analysis of events. The EPM 9900P also supports a multitude of communications protocols such as Modbus, DNP3 and 61850 making it easy to integrate and retrieve data into a SCADA or data analysis system.
Multifunction Metering & Power Quality Monitoring
The EPM 9900P can provide a total picture of power usage and power quality at different points within a power distribution network, allowing users to make power related decisions quickly and effectively.
The EPM 9900P captures and stores comprehensive power quality information, including harmonics, sags, swells and transients providing a clear perspective and log of faults and disturbances to allow for detailed and extensive forensic engineering analysis.
IEC 61000-4-30 Class A Ed.3 Power Quality Meter
IEC 61000-4-15 Class A Flicker Meter
IEC 61000-4-7 Class A Harmonics and Interharmonics Analysis
Phasor Analysis
The monitor reads a phase angle analysis between the voltage and current channels, allowing you to analyze efficiency and system integrity.
High-speed Voltage Reliability Measurements
The EPM 9900P meter provides industry leading voltage measurement.
Set Limit Control
Programmable setpoints allowing a user to configure the meter to be used as a control device for many applications, such as:
Alarm Notification
The EPM 9900P meter lets you set multiple programmable limits for any measured value, as well as those set up in a Boolean logic tree, and limits set up in the IEC 61850 protocol implementation. Users can be notified of alarm conditions via email.
16 Bit Waveform and Fault Recorder
High-speed Status Input Triggers
Subcycle 50 MHz Transient Recorder (Software Option C)
A user can define log sizes within the meter. Thus the full memory can be allocated specifically to the desired function.
Independent ITIC/CBEMA Log Plotting
Compatible Waveform Formats
Using GE Communicator software, the meter will provide all waveform data via COMTRADE and PQDIF compatible formats. This allows the waveform PQ and fault records to be read by most third-party waveform analysis software programs.
The EPM 9900P meter has been enhanced with Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) functionality meeting the IEEE C37.118.1a-2014 standard. A PMU device measures time-synchronized, phasor (magnitude and phase angle of voltage and current) and related data from a specific location on the electrical grid. The data from multiple PMUs are transmitted to a phasor data concentrator (PDC), which aggregates and time-aligns the data for real time and post analysis.
Collection of Synchrophasor data is useful in applications such as:
EPM 9900P Synchrophasor Features
Software options B and above offer an embedded IEC 61850 Protocol Server for seamless integration with substation automation and industrial 61850 applications.
Unique GOOSE Cross Trigger
The EPM 9900P meter offers up to 6 simultaneous communication ports and multiple protocols to meet almost every need.
Hardware Features:
Ethernet Communication Port Capabilities
Industry-Leading DNP 3.0 Level 2 Plus – Complies with DNP Level 1 and Level 2 Certification Requirements
SNMP Protocol
SNMP protocol V1 and V2 are supported for managed device networks (i.e. Data center network applications) Features include:
8 Built-in Digital High-speed Status Inputs
VAUX Input
Expanding existing switchgear or installing new metering capability can be challenging due to space limitations, downtime and installation and equipment costs. GE’s Multilin Meter Enclosure is a pre-wired configured, economical solution for both retrofit expansions and small scale meter installations that allows the expansion of existing switchgear capability without expensive and time-consuming design.
When ordered as a meter option the enclosure provides a factory pre-wired, installation-ready metering solution that further drives energy cost savings, by enabling the measurement of key energy usage information along multiple metering points for new or existing systems. Ordering the enclosure is simple when selected as an option during meter configuration, ensuring correct pre-wired meter-compatible delivery.
Easy and Rapid Installation
Cost-Effective Retrofit Solution
Reliable and Compatible
Applications (New and Retrofit installations)
The installation of the GE’s Multilin Meter Enclosure is simple, safe and eliminates downtime through simple mounting and wiring. The enclosure is UL/CUL certified and NEMA 1 rated making it ideal for indoor environments.
It is provided in two voltage configurations (120-240V and 277V) to ensure compatibility with customer installations. The standard equipment includes voltage fuses; a shorting block for current transformers; and a control power transformer for 277V power systems that are pre-wired and configured to ensure safety, quality and long-term reliability.
The EPM 9900P provides software options to meet specific power quality measurement functionality as well as logging, sampling and communications requirements.
The software options are also upgradeable after purchase/installation. This provides flexibility to expand functionality for future requirements or budgetary approval.
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Memory | 512 MB | 1GB | 4GB | 512 MB | 1GB | 4GB |
Sampling Speed (samples/cycle) | 512 | 1024 | 1024 | 512 | 1024 | 1024 |
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