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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's Grid Solutions' EBoP systems cater to all types of project requirements including supplying equipment, engineered packages, and full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) implementations.

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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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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, GE Vernova designs 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. We provide 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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SF6 (or Sulphur Hexafluoride) has been the standard gas used inside high voltage electrical equipment as an insulating and arc-quenching medium. However, SF6 is also listed as a potent greenhouse gas according to the Kyoto Protocol, with 24,300 times the comparative Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2 and a lifetime of 1,000 years in the atmosphere. With grid operators across the world becoming increasingly concerned about the environmental impact, GE Vernova offers a commercially available and viable alternative to SF6 to help utilities and industries reduce their environmental impact.

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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.

The GridBeats™ portfolio is designed to streamline grid digitalization, improve grid resilience, and empower utilities to manage their networks remotely, particularly in the face of the energy transition.

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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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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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Business environment is constantly transforming for substation owners but the need to deliver consistent outcomes remains. That’s where a Flexible Service Agreement can help. By partnering with GE Vernova on a long term, customers can realize the full potential of their electrical substations and network assets while balancing performance and investment, along with predictable costs and flexible billing arrangements, letting them get back to focusing on what matters.

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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’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.

GE Vernova provides a vast array of support and service offerings to help customers build, deploy, maintain and service their networks. Our highly skilled engineers and technicians provide front line support for customers across our product portfolio, including protection and control solutions, industrial communications networks, asset monitoring and diagnostics and software solutions.

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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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Lentronics CSSU cyber security for SONET/SDH multiplexers
Cyber Secured
Service Unit
Improved Cyber Security for Lentronics SONET/SDH Multiplexers

GE’s Lentronics™ Cyber Secured Service Unit (CSSU) protects Lentronics Multiplexers against cyber threats, specifically those that target the reliability of the Bulk Electric System (BES). The CSSU is an essential security appliance that takes the place of a legacy Service or IP Service Unit, to better protect against malicious and unintentional network changes. It utilizes defense-in-depth strategies, allowing utilities to meet demanding security standards such as NERC CIP.

Acting as a secure gateway between Lentronics Multiplexers and the Lentronics VistaNET NMS software, CSSUs employ strong AES 256 bit encryption, SSL/TLS and X.509 digital certificates to ensure privacy and authenticity of users attempting to access the network.

Key Benefits
  • Single hardware platform supporting two operating modes; Legacy and Secure
    • Legacy mode: Interoperable with existing Service Unit/IPSU
    • Secure mode: Network-wide AAA supported for improved access control and confidentiality
  • Eliminates 2kHz tie cables between rings
  • Extends network domains beyond 100 nodes
  • Drop-in replacement without SONET/SDH payload traffic disruptions
  • Supports Dual-Homed NMS paths
  • Secure access-control with policy replication and distribution for a single, consistent security policy
  • Prevents unauthorized user actions with hardware-based authorization
  • RADIUS support for centralized and local authentication
  • Provides event logging and secure event storage
  • Provides confidentiality for NMS traffic with strong AES encryption
Overview

The Lentronics Cyber Secured Service Unit protects Lentronics multiplexers from unauthorized user access and remote equipment configuration. In addition, non-authenticated software clients will be actively rejected along with failed user authentication attempts. The use of strong privacy policies help prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

Each CSSU communicates with adjacent CSSUs over the SONET/SDH overhead to facilitate:

  • Centralized user authentication
  • Distribution of a common, network-wide security policy
  • Distribution of common security settings, including digital certificates
  • Upgrade of the units operating firmware to apply any future patches
  • Distribution of the current time

This extends the electronic security perimeter around each NMS access point, securing all sites, particularly remote locations containing critical assets belonging to critical BES Cyber Systems.

Cyber Secured Service Units Perform Centralized and Localized User Authentication
Security
  • Supports OpenSSL
  • Supports Transport Layer Security (TLS)
  • Strong AES 256 encryption
  • X.509 Digital Certificates
  • Digitally signed communications to EMS clients (Lentronics VistaNET)
  • Digitally signed firmware to authenticate trusted source operating code
Access Control
  • Integrates with central authentication server (RADIUS) for centralized user administration
  • Supports dual RADIUS servers and gateways
  • Authenticates users locally if RADIUS is absent
  • Integrated Access Control List (ACL) for local authentication and authorization
  • Distributes ACL between sites over SONET/ SDH overhead
  • Enforces user authentication
  • Optional unit password to control craft console port access
Connectivity
  • Encrypted front and rear Ethernet ports
  • Supports concurrent network management sessions
  • Secured console port
  • Inter-Ring Tie port to bridge NMS domains
Utility Hardened
  • Meets IEEE 1613 and IEC 61850-3 environmental specifications
  • Reliable operation in extreme temperature from -4°F to +140°F (-20°C to +60°C)
  • Meets Earthquake risk Zone 4 shock and vibration specification
GE Cyber Secured Service Unit Security Features
Access Control

A Cyber Secured Service Unit can be deployed in one of two operational modes, Legacy or Secure. Legacy mode (CSSU-L) offers a consistent set of features that supports interoperability with pre-existing Service or IP Service Units.

Secure mode (CSSU-S) is a licensed component that must be applied to all CSSUs within a ring, or across the entire management domain. In this case, a network-wide security envelope is formed to protect and control assets through Authentication, Authorization, Accountability, Privacy and Integrity.

Updating the CSSUs Access Control List: Example of Revoking Users Access

Example of Revoking Users Access

VistaNET Administrator Creates a New Policy
  • User X: Access Rights Expired
  • Applies new security policy to connected CSSU
 
SONET/SDH Overhead
  • CSSU synchronizes the new security policy to all connected CSSUs
 
Enforcing Security
  • Each CSSU enforces the new security policy
 
Access Control Enforced
  • Access is denied for User X
  • Any damage caused by User X is contained to the local site where physical access was breached
Technical Specifications

Technical specifications, encryption, authentication and security standards for the Lentronics CSSU

* Equipped with CSSU-S code

Order Code
Part Number Description
B86434-11 Cyber Secured Service Unit, Legacy Mode for JungleMUX, TN1U and TN1Ue Multiplexers
Ethernet 10/100BaseT via RJ-45 front connector, providing a gateway for Network Management
Serial 9.6kb RS232 via RJ-11 front connector, supporting network management or local unit setup only
B86434-11/A Activated Cyber Secured Service Unit, to operate in Secured Mode for JungleMUX, TN1U and TN1Ue Multiplexers
Ethernet 10/100BaseT via RJ-45 front connector, providing a secure gateway for Network Management
Serial 9.6kb RS232 via RJ-11 front connector, local unit setup
86434/A Activation code to upgrade from CSSU-Legacy to CSSU-Secure operating mode
86434-75 TN1Ue CSSU paddleboard equipped with rear Ethernet 10/100BaseT, Major/Minor Form C relay, Power alarm input, Protected NMS Tie ports (new tie format) and Contact IN terminals
86434-81 TN1U CSSU paddleboard equipped with rear Ethernet 10/100BaseT, Major/Minor Form C relay, Power alarm input, Protected NMS Tie ports (new tie format) and Contact IN terminals
86434-92 JungleMUX CSSU paddleboard equipped with rear Ethernet 10/100BaseT, Major/Minor Form C relay, Power alarm input, Protected NMS Tie ports (new tie format) and Contact IN terminals

* Equipped with CSSU-S code