What makes GE the smarter choice for smart grid solutions? Everything
GE has expertise across everything electrical. Nobody else even comes
close to the breadth and depth of our real-world expertise. GE brings
more than 110 years of experience building successful energy grid
solutions to help you understand your status and plan your future.
It's not just the destination: GE can improve the journey.
GE can help you set your direction for smart grid success.
Our experience and thought leadership make it easy to
follow this simple path.
Set goals. Considering regulations, your current equip-
ment, economic factors and business issues, GE can help
you create your roadmap with clear, measurable goals.
Know the available technology. Your GE smart grid team
can help you understand what's real, what's vaporware
and what's on the horizon, to help set your direction and
fashion an overall improvement plan.
Execute to industry standards. GE is helping shape
smart grid standards around the world, so we can help
you choose solutions that are scalable and flexible.
Create a solid business case. Working to a clear value
proposition with a stringent vetting process, we can
help ensure your smart grid investment improves your
operation in meaningful, important ways.
Your smart grid roadmap may run all the way from generation to
consumption, with rich improvements every step of the way. Or you
may need to focus on updating your distribution control. Or getting
consumers on board to manage peak demand. Whatever shape
your roadmap takes, GE's turbine-to-toaster experience
can help get you where you need to be faster.
1. Understand generation needs
GE can help optimize your current generation capacity and assets,
integrate centralized and distributed renewables, engineer microgrids
and strengthen protection and control. So you can power more with less
and be ready for tomorrow's ever-increasing demand.
2. Determine transmission and distribution requirements
GE has proven smart grid breakthroughs to monitor, control and
optimize how you move power. Our industrial-strength communications
and network management systems can help you understand and
better manage loads. Diagnostics, visualization and control systems
help prevent and minimize the effects of outages.
3. Architect a communications plan
Your grid can't be smart unless it communicates. GE can architect an
end-to-end communications infrastructure, from generation through
transmission and all the way into consumers' homes.
4. Monitor, optimize and analyze assets to extend their lives
GE's asset monitoring, diagnostics, energy management and control
systems can maximize efficiency and help control costs across a facility.
Sub metering and Time-of-Use reporting help you better understand
operations and identify opportunities to improve.
5. Realize consumer benefits in individual homes and communities
Smart appliances, demand response control and dynamic pricing will
help consumers optimize their energy spend. Energy portals and home
automation will empower true consumer energy management. And
smart meters will provide the functionality and communications to
make it possible. GE can be your one resource to help do it all.
6. Integrate business systems
GE's systems integration and partner programs can develop intelligent
business systems and processes for today, and for the needs of tomorrow.
7. Choose the right partners to deliver your Real. Smart. Solutions.
GE has the team, technologies and solution set to make your smart grid
future proof. Our unmatched experience, talent, ongoing research and
commitment to the future of the smart grid make us the right choice for
your long-term success.
GE enables the smart grid
Our advanced, holistic solutions apply the performance gains of new
technologies while extending the capabilities and life cycles of older
investments. That helps you reduce risk and optimize performance
as you build the grid of tomorrow, today.
A clear, compelling roadmap to success begins with GE.