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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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Engineering Services

Our engineering services team provides a wide range of capabilities to assist you with your power protection, substation automation, and monitoring and diagnostics challenges.

We provide end-to-end solutions to support your project needs. From new installations to understanding the best way to upgrade an existing system, our engineering team has been trusted to analyze, design, and implement modern power systems with a broad range of engineering services that includes:

  • Assuring proper logic design and IED configuration based on your specific project needs through our support on complex configurations like busbar engineering and automatic transfer schemes.
  • Communication mapping on IEC 61850 MMS GOOSE, Modbus, Ethernet Global Data (EGD) or other protocols for smooth system integration.
  • Uploading of configuration files prior to delivery to reduce work at destination through pre-load configuration.
  • Confirming alignment between your project-specific requirements and protection system performance with our test procedures and factory acceptance testing (FAT).

Our range of Engineering services includes but is not limited to:

  • Busbar engineering solutions
  • Digital substation standardization
  • IED configuration
  • Protection schemes
  • Automatic transfer schemes
  • DER integration studies, dynamic line rating (DLR), distribution automation, and fast load shedding (FLS)
  • IEC 61850 configuration
  • Test procedures

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IED configuration and pre-loading

These services entail configuration of Grid Automation and third-party P&C devices as per agreed settings and functionality.

Settings can be determined by our calculation of settings and studies or can be supplied by the customer.

Under request, the files can also be uploaded into the customer devices and tested before shipping or installation. Additionally, functional testing for final settings can be tested and reported.

Ied Configuration

Communication mapping

Communication capabilities of current relays are extensive and complex architecture networks are needed in existing substations.

Grid Automation experts can help to unleash communication capabilities within already installed devices, support customers in new deployments, or improve communications architecture and ensure efficient use of network traffic.

Our support can be as simple as helping to configure customer signal mappings, or complex IEC 61850 device integrations. Any protocol supported by our products can be managed.

FAT

The Grid Automation business offers the technical expertise to provide a reliable factory acceptance test, no matter if it is be carried out on our premises, or at third-party installations.

Before material delivery, our FAT support ensures functionality, quality, and integrity with our comprehensive checking process, guaranteeing that the equipment performs as expected under the testable range of foreseeable conditions.

Busbar Engineering Solution

GE Vernova's Busbar Differential System provides fast and secure low impedance bus protection for reconfigurable LV, HV, and EHV busbars. This integrated solution is comprised of engineering, design, assembly, wiring, testing, and commissioning support for protection, control, and automation applications.

Depending on the nature of the protection, we differentiate between three different types of busbar differential projects:

  • Busbar Differential Low-Impedance Centralized Protection System (B30/B90/P746/P747)
  • Busbar Differential Low-Impedance Distributed Protection System (B30/P741/2/3 Agile)
  • Differential High-Impedance Protection Systems (P145/P14NB)

Distributed Busbar Protection

    The B30, a member of the UR family, provides busbar protection for up to 16 feeders with six differential zones. Communication between the bay and central units is done using process bus (IEC 61850-9-2LE) or standard (IEC 61869) protocols, and offers a large, full color LCD display. It can also be used for centralized protection of MV substations requiring busbar, breaker fail, feeder phase/neutral/ground overcurrent, and under/overvoltage protection.

Centralized Busbar Protection

Comprehensive and scalable bus and breaker fail protection for LV, HV, and EHV busbars. The B90, a member of the UR family, supports multi-section busbars schemes of up to 24 feeders and six zones, and offers a large, full color LCD display.

Key Benefits

  • High-speed differential protection algorithm for sub-cycle trip times of 0.75 power cycle with CT saturation detection with only 2ms of saturation-free current.
  • Multiple ethernet ports for station and process bus with advanced IEC 61850 Ed. 1 and Ed. 2 certified implementation, complete settings via SCL files and highly flexible process bus support (IEC 61850-9-2LE or IEC 61850-9-2 hard fiber) ensures interoperability, improved device management, and reduced cost of ownership.
  • Routable GOOSE (R-GOOSE) enables GOOSE messages going beyond the substation.
  • Application flexibility with multiple I/O options including high density I/O, programmable logic, modularity, and specific customization.
  • Advanced cybersecurity features (CyberSentryTM) that help meet modern industry requirements.
  • An integrated large, full color display provides real-time visualization and control of the protected bay via a bay mimic, as well as annunciator functionality and graphical visualization of phasors.
Distributed Busbar Protection

Automatic Transfer Schemes

Electrical processes are becoming more critical every day. Whether these processes are industrial or commercial, uninterrupted power supply is vital. In order to provide more reliable power supply, the power system can alternate sources to different bus bars. An Automatic Transfer Scheme (ATS) is the process of transferring the load of a busbar to another to ensure process continuity.

The ATS helps ensure the continuity of critical processes whose shutdown would result in unwanted economic and safety consequences. Transferring motor buses are specifically challenging due to the inertia forces and transients that exist in motors.

The Automatic Transfer and Restoration Scheme combines distributed protection, control, and ATS capabilities in a cost-effective package. Depending on your project-specific requirements for inputs/outputs, it can be performed on our SR850, F650, or P40x relays.

Key Benefits

  • Control of multiple breakers
  • Use of IEC61850 standard: reduction in cabling and commissioning costs
  • Interlocking can be programmed in logic for a further reduction in costs
  • Pre-built and/or custom logic
  • Fast transfer, residual voltage transfer, or other customer-specific schemes
  • Manual changeover can be implemented for planned start-ups, shutdowns, or changeover of power
  • Make-before-break or break-before-make
  • Automatic restoration with healthy voltage and synchrocheck criteria that minimizes the outage time and helps operators simplify the recovering process
Automatic Transfer Schemes

Main-Main

This configuration can be found in thermal power generating stations. The example shows a hard-wired solution.

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Main-Tie-Main

This type of configuration is mainly used in industrial plants. The example shows a solution with GOOSE 61850 inter-relay communication.

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Main-Tie-Main with Emergency Diesel Generator (EDG)

The Main-Tie-Main configuration can be improved by adding an emergency generator that would operate in case of loss of power on both main sources. The example shows a solution with GOOSE 61850 inter-relay communications.

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Digital Substation Standardization

The transition to digital substations has emerged as a transformative approach to enhance operational efficiency, flexibility, and reliability. Digital substation standardization is a critical process that defines consistent protocols, interfaces, and architectures for the seamless integration of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), communication systems, and control infrastructure. Digital substation standardization is essential for driving the adoption and implementation of advanced technologies in power system networks.

Benefits

Our team possesses extensive expertise and experience in digital substation standardization, offering comprehensive solutions tailored to the unique needs of power system networks, including:

  • A deep understanding of international standards and protocols relevant to digital substations, such as IEC 61850, IEEE 1588, and IEC 62351.
  • Network architecture designed based on the substation architecture and topology for digital substations. We consider factors such as network topology, redundancy requirements, scalability, and system performance. By leveraging standardized architecture, such as the process bus and station bus concepts, we ensure efficient data exchange, streamlined control, and seamless integration of devices and systems.
  • Our team has proficiency in integrating and configuring IEDs from various vendors within digital substations. We ensure that devices adhere to standardized communication profiles, data models, and protocols, enabling seamless interoperability and reliable data exchange.
  • We prioritize cybersecurity in digital substations, implementing standardized security mechanisms, including authentication and access control.
  • Test procedures for FAT, Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) and maintenance are provided based on IEC61850 standard, including simulation and test modes.
Digital Substation
Digital Substation

Use Case

Challenge: Assure a new standard for digital substation design and provide new communications networks and architecture on digital substations.

Value Added Proposition: Design and implementation of standardized schematics for network architecture and communication signals exchange. .scd and .cid template file generation.

Benefits: A standardized solution for three typical topologies, making them more efficient on digital substation implementation. Closure of technology gap for customer employees.

Remedial Action Schemes

Remedial Action Schemes (RAS) are a type of Wide-Area Protection Scheme, also known as Special Protection System (SPS) or System Integrity Protection Scheme (SIPS). RAS systems can detect disturbances in one part of an interconnected network that could result in interconnection overloading, under/over frequency conditions, and under/ overvoltage scenarios, and remediates these situations using pre-defined protection and control actions.

We support customers with the following services:

  • Design and implementation of SIPS
  • Defining RAS requirements
  • System stability studies to identify contingencies and remedial actions
  • Technical solutions and communication system architecture
  • Solution validation including acceptance testing via advanced testing and result analysis
  • Automatic data collection and results analysis from Grid Automation business and third-party devices
  • System integration of the RAS system components
  • Support during the commissioning of RAS components
Remedial Action

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