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.
Accelerated power demand and renewable integration, combined with the sunsetting of conventional power generation technology, are bringing significant challenges to grid operators.
Building on GE Vernova's legacy of more than 130 years and global expertise in power electronics in SVC, STATCOM, HVDC, and more, our newest FACTSFLEX STATCOM portfolio enhances grid controllability, adds inertia, improves voltage and frequency stability, and increases the power transfer capabilities of AC transmission systems.
FACTSFLEX Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) solution is a shunt-connected customized system installed on AC transmission networks. It is based on Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) technology where current is injected or absorbed to regulate the voltage, frequency, and other grid variables. When energy storage is installed, active power is generated/absorbed to improve stability in different grid disturbances. FACTSFLEX can operate either as current source (grid-following) or voltage source (grid-forming).
GE Vernova's traditional grid-following STATCOM is a well established technology. FACTSFLEX Classic provides reactive power compensation and voltage control with a faster response time and a smaller footprint than traditional SVC solutions.
Learn MoreGE Vernova's grid forming STATCOM provides instantaneous natural reactive power injection for grid disturbances. Grid-forming control drives improved damping characteristics and provides a cost efficient and powerful grid stabilizing solution.
Learn MoreThe FACTSFLEX GFMe is a comprehensive, grid-forming, double-star configured STATCOM with integrated energy storage that stabilizes the grid voltage and frequency during grid disturbances using active and reactive power.
Learn MoreGE Vernova's traditional grid-following STATCOM is a well established technology. FACTSFLEX Classic provides reactive power compensation and voltage control with a faster response time and a smaller footprint than traditional SVC solutions.
Features include: active harmonic filtering, reactive power control, dynamic voltage regulation, negative sequence voltage control, black start support, automatic performance optimization, stability monitoring, POD, and intelligent transient support.
GE Vernova's grid forming STATCOM provides instantaneous natural reactive power injection for grid disturbances. Grid-forming control drives improved damping characteristics and provides a cost efficient and powerful grid stabilizing solution.
Features include: all Classic features plus: improved weak grid operation, inherent reactive power response to network disturbances and improved low voltage ride-through.
The FACTSFLEX GFMe is a comprehensive, grid-forming, double-star configured STATCOM with integrated energy storage that stabilizes the grid voltage and frequency during grid disturbances using active and reactive power.
Features include: all GFM features plus: synthetic inertia to limit RoCoF and nadir, fast frequency response, active phase jump power, short circuit contribution and improved POD operation.
FACTSFLEX STATCOMs are powerful and flexible systems per se. However for unsymmetric operation range or other grid needs they can be augmented with reactive power elements such as TSR, TSC, MSR, MSC, MSCDN, and/or passive filters or complemented with cross-FACTS solutions like FSC, synchronous condensers, SSSC, and/or UPFC.
Learn More About The AbbreviationsMain functions of FACTSFLEX STATCOMs include:
React to grid voltage and frequency disturbances by injecting or absorbing reactive and/or active power.
Adjust reactive power to a user defined level that will support and maintain system stability, improve power transfer capability and compensate for load/generation imbalances.
Control STATCOM output power to dampen oscillations in frequency or power including mitigation of sub-synchronous resonances.
Balance asymmetrical loads or balance phase voltages.
Active filtering of harmonics and flicker mitigation.
Automatic performance optimization and stability monitoring enable adapting to a wider range of grid conditions.
The energy transition, electrification, and decarbonization are exposing grids to evolving challenges. FACTSFLEX STATCOMs provide a solution to foster and stabilize the grid with reactive/active power compensation, extended grid enhancement capabilities, and an improved range of operational voltage with faster response times. Other benefits include:
The FACTSFLEX MMC valve rapidly and effectively responds to grid events to maintain the system stability. A modular open-rack structure, where the valve is located inside a building making any required maintenance significantly easier than containerized solutions. Redundant valve submodules ensure the specified availability, so if an error is detected, a submodule is shorted by an ultrafast, re-usable, bypass switch without interrupting the system operation.
The supercapacitor energy storage is integrated into the FACTSFLEX GFMe for enhanced capabilities, operation, reliability, and availability. Energy storage strings can be divided into separate halls, allowing for maintenance while remaining in operation. Double-star configuration enables high-voltage energy storage integration, lower losses, and longer lifetime.
GE Vernova’s Advanced Digital Control (ADC) System and model-based design approach provide enhanced capabilities to design, simulate, test, and operate STATCOMs with smart controls and fast response time.
FACTSFLEX power transformers are customized with a flexible design of single- or three-phase units to handle a wide voltage variation and match the MMC voltage to the transmission system voltage.
FACTSFLEX phase reactors are connected between the grid and the FACTSFLEX valve, enabling active and reactive power generation or absorption for improved performance with a minimized footprint.
The cooling system ensures smooth operation and long lifetime of the valves. It consists of a main water circuit with dual circulation pumps, a water treatment circuit with a deionizer, and expansion vessels. Variables are monitored to ensure thermal stability and energy efficiency.