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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, 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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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, we offer 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.

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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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High Voltage Capacitors

Increase Capacity, Stability & Power Quality

GE's high voltage capacitors provide simple and reliable reactive power to improve system performance, quality and efficiency. They are designed and manufactured using advanced technology and high-quality materials, and are all-film dielectric units impregnated with biodegradable dielectric liquid.

GE’s high voltage capacitor portfolio includes internally fused, externally fused and fuseless capacitors available in ratings of 25 to 1,100 kVAR for single-phase units, and 300 to 400 kVAR for three-phase units at 2.4 kV to 25 kV. The units can be designed to meet IEC 60871, IEEE 18 and CSA C22.2 standards.

A variety of industries can benefit from using high voltage capacitors for increased capacity, stability and power quality, including applications for power generation, transmission and distribution, as well as power consumers in oil and gas and infrastructure.

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High voltage capacitor banks

GE provides solutions for high voltage PFC (Power Factor Control) and filtering. GE’s high voltage capacitor bank equipment is offered in three primary types of fusing schemes: internally fused, externally fused and fuseless. GE can analyze your network thoroughly and help you to choose the design that best fits your specific requirements.

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Typical passive solutions

Shunt bank capacitor bank provided optionally with accessories including surge current limiting reactors and switches.

Detuned filter is a power factor solution for networks with harmonics. Series connected capacitor bank and reactor increase the impedance of the circuit at network harmonics reducing capacitor overload.

Tuned harmonic filter provides power factor solutions at fundamental frequency and filters harmonics at a specific frequency. Series connected capacitor bank and reactor create a low impedance path for specific network harmonic(s).

For more information on our shunt bank, detuned filter & tuned harmonic filter solutions, view the brochure and application guide.

Mechanically Switched Capacitor with Damped Network (MSCDN) mitigates undesired network resonances by adding a damping circuit in series with a capacitor bank. For more information view the brochure.

Open stack rack

Open rack equipment

Open stack rack capacitor banks are applicable where a large amount of reactive power is required at high voltage. Capacitors and auxiliary equipment are installed in welded aluminum or galvanized steel racks and shipped ready for field installation.

Features:

  • Rated power up to 600MVAr / rated voltage up to 800kV
  • Rugged for corrosive environment and wild life protection
  • Multiple fusing schemes (internal, external and fuseless)
  • Multiple switching and protection options available
  • Fast installation and quick return-on-investment

For more information view the brochure and application guide.

Pole mounted equipment

Pole mounted equipment

GE’s pole mounted capacitor products are pre-wired, factory assembled and shipped ready for installation with single-phase capacitor units. Racks are made of welded structural aluminum suitable for mounting switches, junction box, cable assembly, lightning arresters and/or potential transformers.

Features:

  • Power range 150-3600 kVAR / voltage range 2.4-34.5 kV
  • Oil or vacuum switching available
  • 3, 6, 9, or 12 unit racks available
  • Individual or group fusing available
  • High current vacuum switch mounting capability
  • Rugged for corrosive environment and wild life protection

For more information view the brochure and application guide.

Metal enclosed capacitor banks

Metal enclosed capacitor banks

GE’s metal enclosed capacitor banks provide modular small footprint solution for power factor controlling and harmonic filtering at medium voltages. Capacitors, reactors and auxiliary equipment are installed in a welded galvaneal enclosure and shipped ready for installation. Banks are designed to meet extreme conditions from marine conditions to desert and from artic to tropic.

Features:

  • Voltages from 2.4kV through 38kV
  • Power ratings up to 40MVAr in a single enclosure
  • Oil or vacuum switching
  • Up to 15 steps in a single bank
  • Enclosure protection level up to IP56/NEMA 4X
  • Protection, grounding, disconnect, & interlock options
  • Compliant with ANSI, IEEE, IEC, NEC and NESC

For more information view the brochure.

Fixed medium voltage PFC

Fixed medium voltage PFC

GE’s High Voltage WeatherTight (HWT) capacitor banks are suitable for use on primary circuits where small amounts of kVAR are required. They may be installed at various load centers or directly at the terminals of 2300 and 4000 volt motors. Equipment is suitable for indoor and outdoor applications.

Features:

  • Low losses <0.2W/kVAr
  • Voltage ratings up to 13.8kV, power ratings up to 900kVAr
  • Blown fuse indication lights
  • Rugged design for harsh environment
  • Operating temperature -40°C to +46°C (-40°F to 115°F)
  • Compliant with IEEE, IEC, CSA and NEMA

For more information view the brochure.

HVDC / FACTS applications

HVDC / FACTS applications

GE’s HV reactive power compensation solutions have extensive experience in FACTS and HVDC, with a large installation base on both. Needs for compensation and filtering equipment in these solutions vary depending on overall design of the equipment, and is typically a combination of different kinds of capacitor banks and filters including:

  • Detuned filter capacitor bank
  • Single, double or triple tuned filter bank
  • High-pass filter
  • C-type filter
  • HV DC capacitor banks

Visit GE’s FACTS and HVDC webpages for more information on these solutions for challenges that the modern power grid faces today.

 

Surge protection capacitors

Surge protection capacitors

GE’s surge capacitors protect the winding insulation of medium voltage rotating machines and transformers exposed to transient overvoltage or surges. GE’s non-PCB power capacitor is an environmentally acceptable product with superior performance and reliability. GE’s protective capacitors contain an all film dielectric system and hermetically sealed bushings, which permits flexible mounting configurations.

Surge protection for:

  • Large motors and generators
  • Synchronous condensers
  • Large motors
  • Medium voltage switchgear and motor control centers
  • Large transformers
  • Shunt reactors

Features:

  • Rated voltage up to 25kV
  • Typical capacitance range 0.1-0.5µF
  • 1- or 3-phase designs
  • Time proven GE HAZY® film foil dielectric system
  • Non-PCB insulating fluid
  • Low loss fuseless design
  • Provides turn-to-turn insulation protection by reducing steepness of wave fronts applied to or reflected within the machine
  • Use in combination with GE TRANQUELL station arresters for optimum protection

For more information view the brochure.

Applications by Market

Applications for power generation, renewable generation and offshore wind farms:

  • Protection capacitors for generators
  • Compensation and filtering inside the power plant
  • Harmonic filters AC/DC, HVDC
  • Current limiting reactors
  • Shunt capacitor banks for AC/DC converter systems
  • Mechanically switched capacitor banks with damping network

Applications for FACTS, HVDC, transmission substations and distribution networks:

  • Series compensation
  • STATCOMs
  • SVCs
  • Harmonic filters
  • Shunt capacitor banks
  • Transformer and reactor protection capacitors
  • Pole top capacitors
  • AC and DC capacitor banks (shunt, series, filter)

Applications for buildings and cities, oil and gas, and industry and infrastructure:

  • Harmonic filters
  • Active filters
  • Shunt capacitor banks
  • Protection capacitors for motors and generators
  • Feeder substation filters
  • Detuned capacitor banks
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Manufacturing Excellence

GE manufacturing plants are highly automated digital factories that use the GE Predix platform for machine learning and modeling.

Clearwater

Clearwater, FL, USA
Our Clearwater Factory converts raw data to useful insights. Data from RFID and sensor enabled machines are converted to traceable CTQs, design specification and test results that provide useful information for engineering and modeling. Our Clearwater factory is ISO 9001 certified.

Products manufactured in Clearwater, FL:

  • High voltage capacitor units and banks
  • Induction heating and melting capacitors
  • Low voltage capacitor units and banks
  • Surge arresters
Itajubá

Itajubá, Brazil
Our Itajubá factory supplies a broad range of engineered equipment for all segments and commercial regions, by means of state-of-the-art machinery and design criteria, first class raw material, strict production and quality controls, and very experienced staff.

Products manufactured in Itajubá, Brazil:

  • Air-core dry-type reactors
  • High voltage capacitor units and banks
  • High voltage harmonic filters
  • AIS products (instrument transformers, circuit breakers, disconnectors and line traps)

References

GE provides HV capacitor solutions and support to +1,000 customers in 80 countries. With more than 50 years of experience, GE is an industry leader with its all-film, extended foil design and robust manufacturing process. Our capacitors are installed globally in a variety of environmental conditions including extreme temperatures, highly corrosive dessert and offshore environments, and high level seismic zones. Below are a selected representation of our projects, a complete reference list is available upon request.

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1. Canada (2013)
FSC, 735kV, 659MVAr, 60Hz

5. Chile (2017)
Sic Sing FSC

9. Germany (2013 - 2018)
MSCDNs

13. Saudi Arabia (2016)
Jeddah North SVC

2. USA (2014)
Peterson Flats FSC

6. Canada (2017 -2018)
Lower Churchill HVDC

10. Nigeria (2014)
Kano Substation, Shunt bank 330kV 50MVAr

14. South Korea (2016)
KEPCO HVDC

3. USA (2010)
Mojave Desert Shunt bank 533kV 226 & 170MVAr

7. Canada (2014)
SVC, 315kV, -100/+300MVAr, 60Hz

11. Namibia (2016)
C-type filter 220kV 40MVAr

15. Hong Kong/ China (2012)
Shunt bank 145kV 100MVAr

4. Brazil (2012)
Rio Madeira HVDC

8. Scotland (2015)
MSCDN 150kV 60MVAr

12. Russia (2007)
Shunt bank 121kV 42MVAr

16. Australia (2015)
Black Range FSC