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.
Energy storage is the backbone of the modern power system, delivering reliable, high quality energy for utilities, data centers, industry, and communities. It unlocks the full potential of renewable and clean energy, ensuring critical operations stay continuously online in an always on economy while accelerating the electrification of everything.
Integrated electrical systems provide energy where the grid doesn’t reach, meeting increasing power demands while improving resilience and efficiency.
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.
GE Vernova delivers advanced power stability and flexibility solutions that help utilities and electro-intensive industries meet grid connection requirements and evolving regulatory standards. Our portfolio is designed to enhance grid performance, compliance, and resilience.
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 Vernova’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.
Drawing on more than 125 years of engineering heritage, GE Vernova offers rotating machine solutions designed for performance, reliability, and industrial scale.
Digital Native Products are not just an evolution of existing switchgear but a transformation in how GE Vernova conceives and builds primary equipment for the grid.Digital Native Products are designed with digital capabilities embedded, enabling a compact and standard design and are mechanically engineered to reach the accuracy required by advanced monitoring and control solutions. Products are ready to connect and operate quickly and effectively. Discover the various monitoring and control solutions that can be incorporate in Digital Native Products.
GE Vernova delivers advanced power electronics solutions that help electrify industries, optimize performance, and improve reliability. Our integrated portfolio supports critical applications with the technology and services needed to power a more efficient and sustainable future.
Safely and securely accelerate operations with tailored automation systems that enhance control, reduce risk and add value.
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 comprehensive portfolio of solutions for implementing and managing a substation.
GE Vernova’s Protection, Control, and Metering solutions deliver precise, high-performance automation for today’s evolving grid. From advanced relays to multifunction meters, our portfolio helps utilities enhance reliability, streamline operations, and accelerate the energy transition. Backed by decades of expertise and global reach, we provide the products to protect assets, optimize performance, and power a more sustainable future.
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 Critical Infrastructure Communications (CIC) solutions deliver secure, resilient, and scalable networks that ensure operational continuity in even the most demanding environments. We help customers reduce downtime, enhance safety, and improve situational awareness through end-to-end communication solutions built for reliability and performance. This translates into greater efficiency, regulatory compliance, and peace of mind for mission-critical operations.
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.
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 Vernova’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 Vernova’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 certified laboratories enable manufacturers and customers leverage deep domain expertise and advanced testing and analysis facilities to develop enhanced high-voltage products, certify their capabilities before market introductions and apply preventive maintenance to avoid unexpected interruptions and ensure the reliability of your operations.
Our product range covers from the smallest medium voltage electrical rotating machines to custom made large units, up to 80 MW, as well as their operating and protection controls. Our aftermarket fleet of over 70,000 rotating machine assets, spread over 150 countries worldwide, that we’ve served for a century. Our experience in all energy, industry and transportation sectors is broad and deep.
We connect the physical world with data to proactively detect and forecast the behavior of your assets by offering Digital Suite, Service 360 & Cyber security.
Our MV drives portfolio ranges from 100 kW to more than 100 MW and from 3.8 up to 13.8 kV voltages. It allows for higher operating efficiency, power availability, plant throughput, operational precision, and process yield. Our LV drives portfolio ranges from of 0.25kW to more than 6MW and from 270 up to 900VAC voltages which includes fully and doubly fed wind converters, marinized drives, metal and mining drives, Cranes, test benches, meeting the needs of critical electrification systems.
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 Vernova’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.
January 5, 2018
One of the world’s largest LNG complexes The project for Nigeria LNG Ltd based in Bonny Island, Nigeria utilizes the gas reserves of the eastern part of the Niger delta by converting them to liquefied natural gas for export to industrial customers in Europe and Turkey. The plant has seen substantial growth since start up 8 years ago and now has six liquefaction trains in operation. The capacity of each train is 4 million metric tons of LNG per year. In 2002, GE Electrification‘s business was chosen to supply the first two sets of a complete electrical system for the liquefaction of trains 4 and 5. Subsequently in 2004, Electrification was selected again for the electrical set for train 6.
Regarding the liquefaction in the LNG supply chain The most economical transportation of natural gas for destinations upwards of 5,000 miles is through liquefaction. The patented liquefaction process reduces the volume by 600 times. Natural gas liquefaction occurs when the gas is cooled to -160°C (-260°F). Several processes are patented. It consists mainly of methane (C1), ethane (C2), propane (C3), butane (C4) and nitrogen (N2). The liquefaction system used at Bonny Island is a conventional process using a Propane Refrigeration (PR) pre-cooling step followed by a Mixed Refrigerant (MR) condensation cycle.
3 complete electrical systems each comprised of : • Harmonics filters 33 kV • Network transformer 33 kV / 3 kV • Frequency converter SD7000 15.5 MW • Machine transformer 3 kV / 10 kV • 10 kV switchboards • 2 high-speed motors 3,600 rpm – 10 kV - Power 13 MW each • Cooling systems • Energy Management System
The customer’s requirements were very specific, with only two similar installation set-ups in the world. Electrification was able to meet the challenges of optimizing available energy for the customer by using their technical competencies and capabilities. Original concept to reduce the number of equipment For each train, a converter drives two 2-pole turbo synchronous machines of 13 MW each. One machine is dedicated to the 60 MW compressor of the propane cycle, and the other one to the 80 MW compressor of the MR cycle. The two 2-pole turbo synchronous machines are used as : • Starter: to start the gas turbine by accelerating the shaft until the combustion enables the turbine to work alone • Helper: to provide additional power to the gas turbine if required • Generator: to regenerate the excess of power (automatic energy management)
Dynamic stability studies Responding to customer demand, Electrification performed time domain studies of the entire system dynamic behavior, including network, gas turbine and compressor shaft-lines. The studies analyzed different occurring events to confirm the stability of the whole process under any possible situations.
LCI converters bring high availability and increased reliability Based on thyristor technology for synchronous motors, the SD7000 LCI drive allows speed control up to 100 MW.
Electrification’s proven technology and high reliability, for processes requiring high availability, ensures continuous operation 365 days per year. In addition, the four- quadrant operation enables the regeneration of energy to the network with no additional costs.
The fully digital controller integrates all the components of an automation controller into a coherent unit: a mechanical structure for industrial environments, powerful CPUs, high-performance operating system, communication networks and industrial inputs/outputs.
Combining the thyristors advantages and the last generation of controllers, the SD7000 converter meets the compressor requirements in terms of : • High overall efficiency (> 98.5%) • High availability and reliability • High network disturbance robustness • High starting torque and throughout the speed range • No upper limit of power • Four-quadrant operation • Reduced installation time and cost
Power regeneration for increased efficiency During operation thanks to regeneration of excess power, whenever the need is for any loop to reach more or less power, a system balances the need from the power grid to a gas turbine, from a loop to the other one or from a gas turbine to the power grid. So in static mode, as well as in transitory mode, the gas turbine always performs at its optimal operating point.
Energy Management System for smooth operation The Electrical Protection and Control Functionality (EPCF) system monitors energy flow and controls the energy requirements of each compressor (PR and MR). It also communicates the energy balance and status of each part of the electrical system through to the gas turbine control system and the plant’s DCS.
Harmonic filters also improve power factor Based on extensive experience, Electrification has studied and designed the suitable harmonic filters for the power grid to ensure reduced harmonics disturbance while improving the power factor of the whole grid.
10 kV switchboards: security in all situations Up to nine 10 kV circuit breakers are installed to ensure proper operation and protection of the LNG trains during start up, continuous running and back up.
Increase of availability through the interconnection of each train’s supply The power supply for trains 4, 5 and 6 are interconnected. In the event of breakdown, each converter train can function in back up mode for the neighboring train.
From the 33 kV network to the 13 MW synchronous motor shaft end, Electrification carried out all the studies, supplied and integrated the different electric components and commissioned the complete electrical system.
