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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's Grid Solutions' EBoP systems cater to all types of project requirements including supplying equipment, engineered packages, and full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) implementations.

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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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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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SF6 (or Sulphur Hexafluoride) has been the standard gas used inside high voltage electrical equipment as an insulating and arc-quenching medium. However, SF6 is also listed as a potent greenhouse gas according to the Kyoto Protocol, with 24,300 times the comparative Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2 and a lifetime of 1,000 years in the atmosphere. With grid operators across the world becoming increasingly concerned about the environmental impact, GE Vernova offers a commercially available and viable alternative to SF6 to help utilities and industries reduce their environmental impact.

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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.

The GridBeats™ portfolio is designed to streamline grid digitalization, improve grid resilience, and empower utilities to manage their networks remotely, particularly in the face of the energy transition.

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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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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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Business environment is constantly transforming for substation owners but the need to deliver consistent outcomes remains. That’s where a Flexible Service Agreement can help. By partnering with GE Vernova on a long term, customers can realize the full potential of their electrical substations and network assets while balancing performance and investment, along with predictable costs and flexible billing arrangements, letting them get back to focusing on what matters.

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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’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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Release 6.15
 
 

 Introduction

PMCS standalone software is no longer available. As an alternative, please refer to Industrial Energy Management Systems


PMCS seamlessly integrates the comprehensive line of GE Multilin devices as well as new ModBus RTU devices and systems. PMCS is the backbone of an energy management system, proven in over 700 installed sites. When combined with a powerful HMI package (Cimplicity HMI 6.1 SP5 or Wonderware InTouch 9.5), PMCS allows users to maximize productivity, minimize downtime, and reduce energy costs.

1. PMCS Configurator: Single Point Device Configuration

    • Device setup (serial & ethernet servers and event & waveform servers)
    • Testing device communication
    • Generic device-type creation
    • Add/modify delete register addresses & groups
    • Import & export features
    • Auto-launching servers in “hidden” mode
    • Periodic check on server run status
    • Shortcut menus to launch viewers (Waveform Client, Event Viewer and Comtrade Viewer)
    • Consistent GE Multilin software Look & Feel

2. COMTRADE Waveform Viewer

    • Data Display – trend graphs, harmonics, phasors and numeric display
    • Cursors – static cursor for trigger position and two dynamic cursors
    • Zoom-in and zoom-out
    • Playback of waveforms
    • Customizable View – channel, scaling and color selection
    • Time Stamps – displayed for samples at cursors
    • COMTRADE standards supported – C37.111-1991 and C37.111-1999

3. Tray Tools

    • Provides snapshot of PMCS Servers’ status
    • Launch/Start/Stop controls
    • Show/hide server applications
    • Quick status indication with color coding – Running/Close/Stop

4. Remote Viewer

    • Client for PMCS Server systems
    • Simplified PMCS Server configuration and connectivity
    • Viewing of events and waveforms
    • COMTRADE viewer
    • Auto retrieval of event database from Server
    • Event & waveform file transfer on XML/SOAP/HTTP
    • Trigger and upload waveforms on NetDDE / DCOM
    • Cimplicity Wizards for remote viewing


The devices supported by PMCS 6.15 include:
 

    • Meters

Meter Name

Firmware Revision 

GE POWER LEADER™ EPM Meter
(commnet communications option)
(Modbus communications option)

3.0x
1.0x  
3.5x

POWER LEADER Meter 2.0x

GE EPM 3710 Electronic Power Meter

3.0.1.1.b
4.0.0.0.b (New devices)

GE EPM 3720 Electronic Power Meter

1.5.1.0

Power Quality Meter (PQM) 3.3x - 3.6x
EPM 1000 3.8
EPM 2000 2.01.04
EPM 4000 3.8x
EPM 5000P 3.9
EPM 5300 / EPM 5200 (Mother Board) (Communication)

2.4x
1.6x

EPM 6000 1.0x
EPM 5350 (Mother Board) (Communication)

2.4x
1.6x

EPM 7300 Meter

2.0x

EPM 7330 Meter 2.5x
EPM 7430D Meter / EPM 7450D Meter Analog ver. 3.0x
Digital ver. 2.8x
EPM 7500 Meter 2.0x
EPM 7600 Meter 2.0x
EPM 7700 Meter 2.0
EPM 9450 DSP 218/   2.1x
COM 223
EPM 9650 DSP 608/   2.1x
COM 610

 
    • Relays

Relay Name

Firmware Revision

POWER LEADER MDP Overcurrent Relay
(Mother Board)
(Commnet communications option)

Version D
1.06
3.5

239 Motor Protection Relay

2.3x - 2.7x

269 Plus Motor Management Relay 6.0x
369 Motor Management Relay 1.6x - 2.3x
SR469 Motor Management Relay 2.5x - 5.0x
SR489 Generator Management Relay 1.3x - 4.0x
735 Feeder Relay 1.5x
MIF II Digital Feeder Relay 4.0x
SR745 Transformer Management Relay 2.4x - 5.0x
SR750 Feeder Management Relay 3.6x - 7.0x
SR760 Feeder Management Relay 3.6x - 7.0x
Universal Relay 2.6x - 5.0x
PQM II 1.0x - 2.2x

 
    • Monitors

Monitor Name

Firmware Revision 

POWER LEADER Modbus Monitor

2.0x

EntellisysLVS 3.0x

 
    • Controllers

Controller Name

Firmware Revision 

GE Fanuc MicroPLC Programmable Logic Controller

n/a

GE-Zenith MX150 (Microprocessor Controller) 6.0
GE-Zenith MX200 (Microprocessor Controller) (Microprocessor Controller) (Mother Board) (Modbus Comm Card)

735 3B34X
1.1

GE-Zenith MX250 (Microprocessor Controller) 6.0
GE-Zenith Generator PLC (Series 90-70) 4.1 
Motor Manager II 5.1 
F650 1.6x - 2.2x  

 
    • Concentrators

Concentrator Name

Firmware Revision

POWER LEADER Modbus Concentrator

Main Firmware 2.2
Segment Firm. 2.2


 
    • Trip Units

Trip Unit Name

Firmware Revision

Spectra MicroVersaTrip™

5.16

Enhanced MicroVersaTrip™ C

4.13

Enhanced MicroVersaTrip™ D 4.13 
Spectra ECM™ Electronic Control Module 7.2

 
    • Networking Devices

Networking Device Name

Firmware Revision

POWER LEADER Ethernet Gateway (G04)
POWER LEADER Ethernet Gateway (G05)
POWER LEADER Ethernet Gateway (G06)
(OS Version) (Firmware Version) (NativeCom)

06E01
06A
5.0


 


Minimum System Requirements
    • 1GHz or greater single processor PC (2 GHz or greater recommended).
    • Windows 2003 Server R2, Windows 2000 Professional (SP4) or Windows XP (SP2).
    • Cimplicity version 6.1 Service Pack 5
    • Wonderware Intouch 9.5
    • 512 MB RAM (1 GB or greater recommended)
    • 512 KB cache
    • 40GB or greater AT-100 hard drive
    • 10/10/32 CDRW (not operating burning CDs while application is running).
    • 2 10-BaseT Ethernet Cards (static IP addresses only - no DHCP support)
    • One Parallel Port Printer.
    • One analog phone modem (no Winmodems).
    • Video capable of displaying 16-bit color, 1024x768 resolution
      (1280x1024 recommended)