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.
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Advanced Network Management
Simplifying Optical Networks Lentronics™ Advanced Network Management solution is a complete suite of software tools to securely manage the GE Lentronics family of telecommunications products, consisting of JunglePAX Hybrid MPLS/SONET/SDH, JungleMUX SONET and T1 Multiplexers, TN1U and TN1Ue SDH Multiplexers and E1 Multiplexers. Solution Suite includes: Advanced Network Management - EnerVista™ INSIGHT
Embedded Management Solution (eMS) for the JunglePAX Platform
VistaNET™ Element Manager for GE Multiplexers
Key Benefits
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GE’s Advanced Network Management solution (NMS) suite provides network operators the functionality to all aspects of the FCAPS model.
Communication Protocols
Connectivity between SONET/SDH, T1/E1, MPLS-TP, Hybrid and Industrial Switch platforms is seamlessly managed through GE’s Advanced NMS regardless of the device's communication protocol, including SNMP v1, 2c, 3, NETCONF, CLI, ensuring its effectiveness as a single network management solution for all your GE Industrial Communication devices.
Database Performance and Synchronization
GE’s Advanced NMS solution is built on object-orientated and SQL databases for unsurpassed performance that can handle thousands of alarms per second, continuously, ensuring that all information is available to the operator. Synchronizing the databases in real time across different appliances ensures no loss of network visibility in the event of a server failure, which is a key requirement of NERC, FERC and CIP compliance. Massive scaling of the database is also supported, ensuring data collection and retention of your collected data is protected.
Graphical User Interfaces and User Applications
GE’s Advanced NMS solution provides several different dynamic graphical user interfaces to easily navigate, diagnose and solve network issues.
Graphical Screen Manager (GSM): A geographical view that presents alarms and their network location on a GIS map, and depicts a real-life representation of physical equipment for each type of device.
Fault | Configuration | Administration | Performance | Security |
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Alarm Handling | System Turn-up | Track Service Usage | Data Collection | Control NE Access |
Trouble Detection | Network Provisioning | Store History for Billing | Report Generation | Enable NE Functions |
Trouble Correction | Auto-Discovery | Automatic Archiving | Data Analysis | Access Logs |
Test and Acceptance | Backup and Restore | Quality of Service | ||
Network Recovery | Database Handling |
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Architecture
Advanced network management for hardened optical multiplexers and packet/hybrid platforms providing:
GE EnerVista™ INSIGHT
Smart Tile technology coupled with Megasys’ know-how and GE innovation produce a unified management solution aimed at simplifying ease-of-use, manageability and maintainability across GE’s industrial communication equipment.
GE’s EnerVista™ INSIGHT is a turn-key, tile-based ecosystem that leverages the best graphical tools and controls available in the industry today. Special attention has been placed on reducing the number of clicks operators typically need to make when navigating between chosen assets (nodes, interfaces, facilities), their status (performance, quality, alarms and alerts), and the NMS tasks needed to accomplish a desired outcome (provisioning, testing, problem resolution). The EnerVista™ INSIGHT offers users an optimized layout comprised of individual Smart Tiles that constantly and automatically adjust based on operators input, to feed the user with the associated data that supplements their primary request. Parent-children relationships between tiles are set up and torn down dynamically along with the tiles themselves to create an environment that’s both effective and intuitive.
GE EnerVista™ INSIGHT is offered in LITE and GOLD versions, both framed by a system map tile to visualize inter-device connections and status, along with ‘Physical’ and ‘Traffic’ selectors that aid to refine navigation and asset targeting. EnerVista™ INSIGHT-LITE is designed for operators focused on network-wide event detection and coordination only, with optional functionality to email and escalate issues to a global community of support staff. EnerVista™ INSIGHT-GOLD provides expanded functions to monitor, configure and maintain the managed assets.
Version 8.6 of EnerVista INSIGHT
Smart Tiles
Smart Tiles are applications within GE’s Advanced Network Manager offering users contextual navigation and customizable dashboards which simplify tasks by reducing the number of application windows open at one time.
A number of tiles are available to users that separately display alarms, PM data, physical topology, facilities & circuits that interact dynamically to the operator's selection. Following Microsoft® standard Windows layouts including ribbon integration, this ‘click once’ technology provides a cohesive representation of network and device status and offers automatic tracking of actions through user-defined tile relationships (parent / child).
How Smart Tiles Empower the Operator
Component | Part Number | Feature |
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Lite | 90000-50/L | INSIGHT Lite, Per node, supports existing licensed user(s) |
Upgrade | 90000-50/UG | INSIGHT-Lite Upgrade to GOLD, Per node, supports existing licensed user(s) |
Gold | 90000-50/G | Network Manager - GE INSIGHT (GOLD), Per node, supports existing licensed users(s) |
HA | 90000-51/G | Network Manager - High.Availability for GE INSIGHT (GOLD), Per node, supports existing licensed user(s) |
Server | 90000-52 | Dell NMS Server |
Analytics | 90000-54 | Network Manager - Telenium Analytics Data Source |
Client Seat | 90000-55 | Network Manager - Single Client Seat license (Lite or Gold) |
Ping | 90000-56 | Network Manager - PING Utility |
Syslog | 90000-57 | Network Manager - SYSLOG North Bound Interface |
SNMP | 90000-58 | Network Manager - SNMP North Bound Interface |
Email Escalation | 90000-59 | Network Manager - Email & Escalation North Bound Interface |
eMS Components
The JunglePAX solution follows a utility telecom model for device, element and network management functionality. Central to the overall architecture, a highly functional and redundant embedded Management System (eMS) is running within each CORE module to complement external managers and to simplify their complexity.
eMS exists within each CORE module, independent of data and control planes. It facilitates:
From a user’s perspective, network management of a JPAX network is performed through EnerVista™ INSIGHT, local-management of a node is performed via the embedded manager hosted within the gateway node acting as a secure agent for FCAPS functions. eMS is also used by technical staff for initial equipment setup, local configuration changes, alarm and event analysis through an off-the-shelf web-browser such as Google Chrome. Web browsers establish a secure connection through an NMS port at any JPAX node acting as a proxy (eMS gateway node) to visualize the entire JPAX network, independent from the NMS platform. eMS is also implemented in a software redundant manner within each JPAX node to ensure high availability and reliability.
Component | Part Number | Feature |
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eMS (Network) | 90000-02 | Embedded manager for JunglePAX networks supporting CLI, NetCONF and HTTPS protocols. Offering Network-wide visibility, fault management and configurability of all unit and system parameters |
VistaNET
VistaNET is a complete suite of software tools to manage the GE Lentronics family of multiplexers, consisting of JungleMUX SONET and T1 Multiplexers (T1MX), TN1U and TN1Ue SDH and E1 Multiplexers (E1MX). VistaNET comprises different licensed features including:
Components | Part Number | Features |
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VistaNET Network Interface (VNI) | 86456-01 | Standard NMS offering, providing remote configuration and monitoring |
VistaNET Local Access (VLA) | 86456-02 | Low-cost, rudimentary NMS solution ideal for small networks |
VistaNET Server Application (VSA) | 86456-04 (SONET/SDH nodes) 86456-14 (T1/E1 nodes) |
Provides a single instance RTU license for the VistaNET server gateway to run on a Windows 7 or 10 PC or LAN server computer, including Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 and 2019. Expands VNI functionality from a remote VistaNET session over TCP/IP |
VistaNET Serial Communication Port Expansion | 86456-05 | Right to Use (RTU) license offered for each additional VNI serial communication port connection privilege (required when further redundancy is needed, or a new network segment is added) |
Alternate Traffic Routing (ATR) | 86456-07 | Provides a RTU license, enabling creation and activation of primary and backup traffic routing schemes in certain Lentronics optical transceiver units |
VistaNET Traffic Manager (TM) | 86456-21 (SONET/SDH nodes) 86456-24 (T1/E1 nodes) |
Shows current traffic usage and available traffic capacity and identifies physical port availability. Captures inter- and intra-node connectivity, inventory, and unit performance values, and then compares with historic values to determine inconsistencies. Additionally, the discovered data is accessible through SNMP GET commands to help MoM’s visualize network topology, inventory, circuits, logs, and performance data |
VistaNET Clear Error & Traffic Counters | 86456-31 | System-wide license used by technicians to clear error counters at the node and ring level in one click, saving time and speeding up troubleshooting |
VistaNET Bulk RSS | 86456-32 | Allows configuration of unit’s Rack/Shelf/Slot so that SNMP-based managers can correctly position the units within the Node’s chassis. |
VistaNET SNMP Agent (vSNMP) | 86456-51 | Enhances VistaNET service with SNMP functionality, converting VistaNET alarms into SNMP traps and forwarding them to a user-defined list of SNMP managers. The agent supports Get commands of active and cleared alarms |
VistaNET may be installed on to any of the following operating systems
Network Management System Features
GE’s NMS for Hardened Optical Networks solution offers:
EnerVista™ INSIGHT - LITE | EnerVista™ INSIGHT - GOLD | |
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Topology | ✓ | ✓ |
Alarms | ✓ | ✓ |
Circuit tracing | ✓ | ✓ |
Fault Management | ✓ | |
Performance* | ✓ | |
Utilization | ✓ | |
Email and Escalation | Optional | ✓ |
Smart Scripting | ✓ | |
Advanced Logic Processor | ✓ | Traffic Builder | JunglePAX Only |
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